Preserve category breadcrumbs without URL?

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   I've been using seomoz lately to try to optimize my site. It says I have "duplicate page titles" because I have products which belong to multiple categories. Depending on which category you come from, the URL is slightly different. This is causing it to think I have multiple URLs pointing to the same page, which I guess I do. 

I could solve this by removing the category prefix from the URL, but then my category breadcrumbs wouldn't work. Is there a way to move the category info out of the URL and into some other place, like post data or something? That way I could preserve my category breadcrumbs while only having one distinct URL pointing at each product. 

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Brett Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22-April-2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Status: Offline Points: 89	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brett Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Preserve category breadcrumbs without URL? Posted: 20-March-2013 at 7:55pm
	I've been using seomoz lately to try to optimize my site. It says I have "duplicate page titles" because I have products which belong to multiple categories. Depending on which category you come from, the URL is slightly different. This is causing it to think I have multiple URLs pointing to the same page, which I guess I do. I could solve this by removing the category prefix from the URL, but then my category breadcrumbs wouldn't work. Is there a way to move the category info out of the URL and into some other place, like post data or something? That way I could preserve my category breadcrumbs while only having one distinct URL pointing at each product.

ProductCart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135	Post Options Post Reply Quote ProductCart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20-March-2013 at 11:07pm
	Hi Brett, Not sure what version of ProductCart you are running, but I believe what you are describing (Canonical URLs containing the Category ID) is something that has been addressed in the latest version of ProductCart. If you are running something earlier, you can try applying the patch that was posted for v4.1 users on our Support Page awhile back: http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/technical-support.asp#updates Scroll down to... ProductCart v4.1 Canonical URL - Removal of category ID Since products can belong to more than one category, the Canonical URL for the product details page should not contain the Category ID. See ReadMe for details. Download fix Perhaps that will resolve your issue.
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Brett Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22-April-2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Status: Offline Points: 89	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brett Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21-March-2013 at 1:42am
	My canonical URLs are correctly excluding the category, but the actual URL is still showing it. This thing is still saying its duplicate content. I want to remove the category from the actual URL while still showing the breadcrumbs. I guess there's no way to do this? I'm not sure what could pass the category info aside from the URL.