Send to a Friend Caused Duplicate Meta Descriptions

[LovePrestashop]

Dear Friends,

 

I have checked my google web master tool and I saw lots of duplicated meta description and titles. E.g.

 

/laptops/6-macbook.html

/modules/sendtoafriend/sendtoafriend-form.php?id_product=6

 

Sure it was caused by "send to a Friend" module. You may say why don't you use rebots.txt to disable access? Yes, I did that, I have "Disallow: /modules/" in my rebots.txt file which was generated by prestashop.

 

My Question is should I uninstall the 'send to a friend' module as it produces the duplicated title and meta description?

 

Thanks

[Dim Dukov]

the same problem here, any help

 

 

Regards

[kenchi]

Me too, who helps us

[pel024]

I've just noticed these pages appearing in google also, even though I have the prestashop robots.txt which disallows the entire /modules directory. Anyone know how to prevent google from crawling these pages?

[Ronaldo Perez]

My Question is should I uninstall the 'send to a friend' module as it produces the duplicated title and meta description?

 

No, remove the module is not necessarily enough to block in robots. Changes in the indexing of your site do not occur instantly, after a while Google will remove from the index page of the module

 

 

I have the prestashop robots.txt which disallows the entire /modules directory.

 

you have made changes in robots.txt - before indexation of module pages by Google or after?

[pel024]

@SergeyH - I generated the robots.txt fairly recently so I guess google had indexed the pages before this. I assume these pages will gradually fall out of the index over time now they are blocked?

[Ronaldo Perez]

yes, you can also go to GWT - site config - url parameters

and deny indexing some URL

[michaelchan0427]

How about add a canonical URL meta tags? Take a look here http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

[Mr S]

I had the same problem its is a small fix edit your file: /modules/sendtoafriend/sendtoafriend.php

 

 

public function displayPageForm()

public function displayPageForm()
{
	if (!$this->active)
		{Tools::display404Error();}

	global $smarty;
	$smarty->assign(array('nobots' => true));
	include(dirname(__FILE__).'/../../header.php');
	echo $this->displayFrontForm();
	include(dirname(__FILE__).'/../../footer.php');
}

[Ronaldo Perez]

yes

'nobots' => true

 

header

<meta name="robots" content="{if isset($nobots)}no{/if}index,follow" />

 

although you can close in robots