link problem

[colin0502]

i have a product that is in preorder categories
the link is below
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main...roducts_id=537

after the product release i have move the product into in stock categories that become another link

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main...roducts_id=537

but i find out the first link still accessibile and exist,
it seems cause some problem for my google webmaster account

if you move one product from one categories from another categories, why the old link still accessible?? is there any solution for this? thanks

[Ajeh]

While the cPath is incorrect, you can still get to the product on the old path ... just as you could get to any product with a bad cPath ... this is the same as hacking the URL in the browser ...

You will find that the Previous/Next do not work correctly and that the Listing button will take the customer to the cPath as defined ...

[g1smd]

For proper operation of a dynamic site, all non-canonical URL paths should either return a 301 redirect to the canonical URL, or should return a 404 response. I'm finding multiple such crawling issues within ZenCart, and these issues interfere both with proper analytics tracking as well as throwing up multiple duplicate content errors within various WebmasterTools reports.

Using the rel=canonical tag is a band-aid solution, one that still fails to properly fix all of the issues. This is a common problem within many sites using faceted navigation. One simple solution is for the URL of a product page to NOT include any category information: that information is contained in the database and can still be used to build the page content, without being in the URL.