To improve Magento seo use canonical link Meta Tag for categories. That is a configuration setting. It places on every category page. It helps to avoid duplicate content SEO problem. By default it is turned off. I will show you how to enable this setting: Magento 1 users Go to System > Configuration > Catalog > Catalog > click on Search Engine Optimizations tab and set 'Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories' to Yes. Magento 1 canonical meta tag for categories Magento 2 users Go to Stores > Configuration > Catalog > Catalog > Search Engine Optimization tab and set Use Canonical Meta Link...
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