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How would you address this?

by ryshark
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Please point me in the right directions with this. I have an ecommerce store. My product pages were setup to be 15-products per page, I had one product category go over 15 product so another page was created for the excess products. However, my product category article is now on both of these pages. I have now figured out how to get more than 15-products onto one page, but I still have the old "page-2" and "view all" URLs are still live and contain my article which will look like duplicate content. I need to get rid of these 2 live URLs (page-2 and view all)

Should I 301-redirect these to something like yahoo's homepage?

Should I make them go to an error page some how?

Should I do something in webmaster tools to make it so pages-2 doesn't

index? If so, how? I'm not familiar with robots txt..
Thanks you!
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  • Profile picture of the author RimaNaj2011
    Block robots from indexing them. I don't use Wordpress so not sure how to do it with that, I'm sure there's a plug in.....but it's in the robots file
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    • Profile picture of the author ryshark
      I don't use wordpress either. I use a shopping cart company. Can I do this through G/webmaster tools?
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  • Profile picture of the author ProSence
    Of course, you can use 301 redirect it is SEO friendly.
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    • Profile picture of the author ryshark
      Originally Posted by ProSence View Post

      Of course, you can use 301 redirect it is SEO friendly.
      If I do this, where should I redirect it to? bing.com or something like that?
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  • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>...</title>
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
    </head>
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    • Profile picture of the author ryshark
      Originally Posted by GodMode52 View Post

      <html>
      <head>
      <title>...</title>
      <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
      </head>
      Thanks, I'm pretty bad with this stuff still and not sure where do do this. Would it be in my backoffice of my site or in webmaster tools?
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  • Profile picture of the author stubo1903
    Put a canonical tag on the pages pointing to the main target page
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    • Profile picture of the author ryshark
      Originally Posted by stubo1903 View Post

      Put a canonical tag on the pages pointing to the main target page
      I like the canonical idea. I only have access to add a canonical on the main page not the bad pages. I wonder if I put a canonical as the main URL I want if that would work.
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