Canalogical Tag
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Hello,
I wanted to have a clean url for example : site.com/producta and our web developer installed this module which does this great.
However there are now two products one with unclean url for example sit.com/productaxmlayoiadkja and the clean one - on both pages page it says:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/producta">Is this correct? Reason being is I'm aiming for the long tail and the site is not getting any visitor although we have unqiue 250 products+ and getting less then 20 visitors a day after almost a year! I would appreciate any help because I'm getting in real trouble because the site is performing so badly!
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What you are describing sounds perfect. Just to be clear I'll offer an example. Let's say you are selling boxes of Cheerios:
URL1 = mysite.com/productxyzpdq
URL2= mysite.com/cheerios
Both URLs present the exact same, or almost the same content. The proper adjustment is to add a canonical tag to both pages:
What you are doing is communicating to search engines "hey, if you want to index this page, always use the canonical URL even if it doesn't match the page's actual URL. Both this page the canonical page offer essentially the same content."
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Can I see the website I will be able to tell you then.
Thanks
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Hi, many thanks for taking the time to reply. No, its the same product but two pages so the original product with the rubbish url title and then another with the clean url title but both have the same canolocial link ref. Sorry hope that makes it clearer. with many thanks sonja
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From what I understand you have 2 different pages with different urls
Both these pages are different also.
And both of them have <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/producta"> rather than site.com/product?#nasnsns or the other URL.
If that is the case then yes it is wrong.
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