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Are these pages crawlable and rankable in Google?

by Dany Oceans
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here are my questions for you related to the canonical tag:

Page 1 = Product name + Part Number

Page 2 = Category Name + Product Name + Part Number

Page 3 = Brand + Category Name + Product Name + Part Number

We are calling a product through different URLs on a website. Page 1 is a base page and page 2 and 3 are pointing back to page 1 through canonical tags. Now the problem is that page 2 and 3 crawled by Google 1 week ago and now they are gone. Even if I search Page 2 and 3 URLs in Google then it shows page 1 in ranking. Our main purpose was to get rank all 3 pages in this scenario. But only page 1 URL is ranked. We can't make one page as from customer's perspective.

Q1: what is the solution to this problem?

Q2: Should I remove canonical tags and try put some unique content on each page? But all 3 pages have same product and properties of those pages will also remain same.

Q3: May I use variables to make this content unique

Thank you in advance for any insights!
#crawlable #google #pages #rankable
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  • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
    Originally Posted by Dany Oceans View Post

    We are calling a product through different URLs on a website.
    Why???

    Originally Posted by Dany Oceans View Post

    Page 1 is a base page and page 2 and 3 are pointing back to page 1 through canonical tags. Now the problem is that page 2 and 3 crawled by Google 1 week ago and now they are gone. Even if I search Page 2 and 3 URLs in Google then it shows page 1 in ranking. Our main purpose was to get rank all 3 pages in this scenario. But only page 1 URL is ranked.
    The purpose of a canonical URL is is to designate the "preferred" (canonical) version of a page and is used primarily to prevent duplicate content issues when a new "replacement" page is created - rather than simply updating the original page.

    As the "preferred" version of the page, it is perfectly logical for Google to de-index any version that designates a different version as the "canonical" version of the page.

    Originally Posted by Dany Oceans View Post

    Q1: what is the solution to this problem?

    Q2: Should I remove canonical tags and try put some unique content on each page? But all 3 pages have same product and properties of those pages will also remain same.

    Q3: May I use variables to make this content unique

    Remove the canonical tags and make the 3 pages sufficiently unique that they don't incur any "duplicate content" penalties.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dany Oceans
      Thanks for your response. Actually, a product can be used on different machines and it is the need of scenario that we show each product according to its machine. otherwise, the customer gets confused. that is why we are looking to make pages in 3 different ways.

      Like if a customer comes from
      - searching the product, it will show Page 1.
      - machine page then it will show page 2
      - Brand page then it will show page 3
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      Originally Posted by Dany Oceans View Post

      Thanks for your response. Actually, a product can be used on different machines and it is the need of scenario that we show each product according to its machine. otherwise, the customer gets confused. that is why we are looking to make pages in 3 different ways.

      Like if a customer comes from
      - searching the product, it will show Page 1.
      - machine page then it will show page 2
      - Brand page then it will show page 3

      Then you have 3 separate pages and resolve your problem via my previous response:

      Originally Posted by Sid Hale View Post

      Remove the canonical tags and make the 3 pages sufficiently unique that they don't incur any "duplicate content" penalties.
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