Virtuemart 2 SEO Problems

[redgiantdesign]

One of our client sites is built on Virtuemart 2 and is a reasonably large site.

We're busy cleaning up SEO problems and I'd like some feedback/possible solutions to the following problems:

- 303 status codes (I have literally hundreds of 303s that come up during an SEO crawl.) - It seems like many of them arise from the product "Sort by" facility. E.g. One of the URLs picked up as a 303 in the crawl: From https://bfore.co.za/products/manufacturer/apple/by,category_name/results,109-120  to https://bfore.co.za/products/manufacturer/apple/orderDesc/by,category_name/results,109-120 results in a 303 error.

- Duplicate title tags. Every one of those separate URLs from product sorting etc results in a duplicate title tag & duplicate meta descriptions.

Could someone explain this to me, as well as provide a possible way to eliminate the issues?

[jjk]

I can only take some guesses. If I understand your description correctly, the crawler is unable to follow your links (303). This makes me think that either your template or your third-party menu module is at fault. Also, your page loads two different versions of jquery. Disable one of them to avoid conflicts. (Personally I would disable the Google jquery in VM2 configuration).

[PRO]

I get a 200 on it while testing with httpfox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/httpfox/

[Yesceeohhh]

Use URL canonicalization to choose the best url between various choices.