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    Posted: 27-November-2009 at 4:10pm
The "must read" on Duplicate Content is this article on the official Google Webmaster Central blog:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

Specifically: "But most site owners whom I hear worrying about duplicate content aren't talking about scraping or domain farms; they're talking about things like having multiple URLs on the same domain that point to the same content. Like www.example.com/skates.asp?color=black&brand=riedell and www.example.com/skates.asp?brand=riedell&color=black. Having this type of duplicate content on your site can potentially affect your site's performance, but it doesn't cause penalties."

In other words, there is no issue: Google understands that both product pages (with and without the keyword rich URL) point to the same content, that you were not trying to trick anyone, that it is simply that your Web site loads the same content in a couple of different ways, and that there is no issue on your Web store.

The same thing would happen if you had a hard-coded search link (e.g. to load products between $50 and $100) that loads the same list of products as a category. In that case too, nothing to worry about.
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This is if we upgrade to versioin 4.0 PC that is.
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So being on iis6 and using the 404 handler it can be done so we wont lose our url's already indexed by the search engines.
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no, PC runs fine on IIS5 and IIS6.
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Does this require that the servor be on IIS 7.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Greg Dinger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-November-2009 at 12:50pm
You refer to ISAPI as if it were a stock feature of ProductCart.  IT IS NOT. 
 
Perhaps you are using that ISAPI terminology but are referring to the SEO mod (which DOES NOT use ISAPI-REWRITE for this functionality - it uses a 404 handler):
http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/seo-urls
 
If that is the case, then no, I do not believe any 301-redirect code exists for existing URLs.  However, Early Impact has stated elsewhere (I cannot find it, perhaps EI will please respond here) their belief that such is unnecessary and will not count as duplicate content.
 
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My question is simple:

When we upgrade to version 4.0 and activate isapi is there a means to do a 301 redirect for all of the indexed pages in the search engines so we don't lose our indexing they have already done on our old url's
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The only way to get what you want is to host your site at a service that offers ISAPI Rewrite, then to build rules that accommodate that URL structure.  We (and others) do offer that program on our servers.
 
I will be the first to say, however, that I really find ISAPI Rewrite a giant pain.  ISAPI rules, and internal code modifications were coded by a SEO team into www.maximumsecurity.com last year before we redesigned the site.  Working around the ISAPI stuff probably increased project time 20 percent and makes maintenance a chore.
 
I strongly endorse just using the SEO mod as mentioned above and only using ISAPI if you really find that you are not getting the desired results.  By following this guidance your future upgrades will be easier and you will retain stock code - thus keeping your store eligibe for support.  The more you alter the code, the more that EI will not be able to support if you have issues.  Please consider the stock SEO functionality before you start changing things.
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Will that be the same for the product details page as well with a -000.htm
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No. That's how the system identifies the category or product that you are loading from the database.
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