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The biggest problem OpenCart sites face is the duplicate/thin pages penalties caused by its default link scheme. By default, every page on the site can be accessed by a multitude of links. For example the product:

http://ift.tt/1hoyjYD

By default can be accessed many, many different ways, for example:

Category pages: http://ift.tt/1irZh49

Secondary category pages: http://ift.tt/1hoymmZ

Manufacturer pages: http://ift.tt/1irZh4d

Non-seo URL: http://ift.tt/1hoymn1

Partially-seo manufacturer URL: http://ift.tt/1irZh4h

Partially-seo category URL: http://ift.tt/1hoykeX

Complete gibberish URL: http://www.widgetstore.net/sdj//gos//djg/////osd/CANT/BELIEVE/THIS/REALLY/WORKS/blue-widget

and thousands more! Ugh.

You can try the above examples on your own store and you’ll see it illustrated. The problem with having many duplicate pages is that Google will index many of these fake pages, making your site appear to have thin and duplicate content, which hurts your rankings in searches.

OpenCart SEO Link De-duplicator will not only change all of your links site-wide to a proper canonical version, it will even 301 permanent redirect all the old links to the correct links so you don’t have to worry about losing any “link juice”. Do away with duplicate/thin content panalties once and for all with this easy plugin!

This plugin will also redirect variations of the site’s home page:

http://ift.tt/1irZeVY to http://ift.tt/1hoymDv

http://ift.tt/1irZeW4 to http://ift.tt/1hoymDv

and your category pages:

http://ift.tt/1hoykf1 to http://ift.tt/1irZhkz

http://ift.tt/1hoymDD to http://ift.tt/1irZhkD

and your information pages:

http://ift.tt/1hoykf5 to http://ift.tt/1irZhkH

http://ift.tt/1hoykf5 to http://ift.tt/1irZhkH

http://ift.tt/1hoykf9 to http://ift.tt/1irZhkH

To help boost your overall SEO efforts, this plugin works nicely in conjunction with our popular Canonical URLs plugin, available here:

http://ift.tt/M2iNrX

The plugin works with all 1.5.x versions of OpenCart and installs easily using vqmod. Full instructions included.