Review duplicate content - any solution?

Hi There,

I've searched high and low for a solution to this issue, with no answers thus far. I simply don't want the content of reviews to appear on multiple pages on my site, as this is bad for seo. I can see no way of stopping this from happening, so any help doing this would be much appreciated.

I see other have asked this in the past, but have received no replies.

Thanks,
Dan

I think you are asking about the review sidebox ? If right, you can turn off it in admin - tools - layout boxes controller.

pwdan:

I simply don't want the content of reviews to appear on multiple pages on my site
What are the URLs of those specific pages?

What Zen Cart version are you using?
What addons/plugins do you have installed?

Certainly, as far as I can see it is on two pages:

site.com/category/product1
site.com/category/product1/reviews

If there's a way to stop the /reviews pages from being generated that should sort the problem out.

I'm using zen cart 1.5.1 and the reviews system came with the zen cart install if I recall correctly. There is a Ceon URI Mapping module installed so I don't know if this would have any effect, though I would have thought not.

In response to cvhainb's reply, thank you for the suggestion but that isn't what I'm referring to.

Thanks guys,
Dan

Those URLs are definitely made from your URI Mapping module, not from default Zen Cart code.

But surely the extra page would still exist without the URI module, just without the simpler /review directory name. That's the issue I'm having.

pwdan:

...If there's a way to stop the /reviews pages from being generated that should sort the problem out.
You could try using your admin's built-in feature: Catalog->Product Types, click on the product type associated with product1 (most likely Product - General). Click on the "Edit Layout" button. Set "Show Product Reviews Button" to "False".

pwdan:

But surely the extra page would still exist without the URI module, just without the simpler /review directory name. That's the issue I'm having.

Perhaps, but in the absence of knowing what the URI mapping addon is mapping from (ie: the original ZC URL without all the rewrites your addon is doing), I can't give you any useful assistance.
And, since you've decided not to supply the actual URL, I can't look at your actual site's HTML to inspect the claims of duplicate content to offer useful feedback about it either.

Apologies for not supplying a url originally. Here are the urls, in fact I've noticed the reviews are in three locations:

park-walk.co.uk/trousers-harem-pants/trousers/thick-cotton-trousers-gi-style
park-walk.co.uk/trousers-harem-pants/trousers/thick-cotton-trousers-gi-style/reviews
park-walk.co.uk/trousers-harem-pants/trousers/thick-cotton-trousers-gi-style/review?reviews_id=16

Thanks,
Dan