Any URL Pros in Here? This one is Crazy. Sitewide duplicate content problems (major)
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Here is my problem. I am working on a massive ecommerce store. The store will have around 3000 products or more. A lot of those products belong in multiple categories.
In this niche, people search by category, then brand. I have a few products that fit into 4 or 5 different categories. Then add the fact that the shopping cart automatically creates duplicate URL's iteslf. For instance
mysite.com/product
mysite.com/category1/product
mysite.com/category1/brand/product
And many other variations. Here is where it gets difficult.
I have about 12 items that have 500 sizes a piece. Each of these size products need their own product page. I will end up with like 1500 pages with identical content, but with a different size.
That works out great for the visitor because of the way they find their product. They use a two step system, get to the size product page, checkout.
How do I account for all this sitewide duplicate content? I think the best way is to use rel="canonical" I can 301 some of the category/product pages to /product, but I dont know about those products with all the sizes.
For a 301, dont I have to know the URL for every duplicate url in order to 301 it to the correct URL
With rel=canonical, all I have to do is put that tag on all the pages I want indexed, right? Sounds almost too simple.
Let's discuss this. I have had a headache for 5 days trying to figure out the best way to handle this.
In this niche, people search by category, then brand. I have a few products that fit into 4 or 5 different categories. Then add the fact that the shopping cart automatically creates duplicate URL's iteslf. For instance
mysite.com/product
mysite.com/category1/product
mysite.com/category1/brand/product
And many other variations. Here is where it gets difficult.
I have about 12 items that have 500 sizes a piece. Each of these size products need their own product page. I will end up with like 1500 pages with identical content, but with a different size.
That works out great for the visitor because of the way they find their product. They use a two step system, get to the size product page, checkout.
How do I account for all this sitewide duplicate content? I think the best way is to use rel="canonical" I can 301 some of the category/product pages to /product, but I dont know about those products with all the sizes.
For a 301, dont I have to know the URL for every duplicate url in order to 301 it to the correct URL
With rel=canonical, all I have to do is put that tag on all the pages I want indexed, right? Sounds almost too simple.
Let's discuss this. I have had a headache for 5 days trying to figure out the best way to handle this.
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