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          Atlanta-SMO last edited by

          I am working on a site that has a HUGE number of duplicate pages due to ECWID ecommerce platform.  The site is built with Joomla!  How can I rectify this situation?  The pages also show up as "external " links on crawls...  Is it the ECWID platform?  I have never worked on a site that uses this.

          Here is an example of a page with the issue (there are 6280 issues)

          URL: http://www.metroboltmi.com/shop-spare-parts?Itemid=218&option=com_rokecwid&view=ecwid&ecwid_category_id=3560081

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            Atlanta-SMO @DomainUltra last edited by

            Hey Jeremy,

            Were you able to attain any information at the ecwid conference?

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              Atlanta-SMO last edited by

              Hi Jeremy,

              thank you for your response!  Please do inquire with ECWID. I will look at the forum post you sent.  I appreciate any further info you discover.

              thanks

              JC

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                DomainUltra last edited by

                So, this appears to be a Joomla issue, not spawned or native to ECWID.  But, perhaps the happy marriage of Joomla and ECWID has birthed you a problem child 😞

                I'll actually be at a conference next week (Austin, Texas) with ECWID and can ask them in person.  For the now, have a look at a similar question/answer I found for you on the ECWID forums:

                Source: http://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?p=55061

                Hope this helps!  Cheers.

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