Another E-commerce Canonical Question
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Hi guys,
Quick question: one of our clients has an e-commerce site with a very poor canonical tag setup and thousands of pages of duplicate content.
Let's use this as an example:
BRAND > Category > Type > Color
Four separate pages/URLs.The BRAND page lists all products.
The Category page lists all BRAND products for that category.
The Type page lists all BRAND products of a specific type in that category.
The Color page lists all BRAND products of a specific type in that category of a specific color.Anyway, these generate four separate URLs:
/BRAND
/BRAND/Category
/BRAND/Category-Type
/BRAND/Category-Type-ColorAvoiding duplicate content and product listings, I would appreciate your proposed canonicalization strategy/feedback.
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Thank you for your reply, Alan.
To confirm, the pages I listed in my initial post have nothing but product listings on each of them. Some pages have only a few products. The client already has a self-referencing canonical tag on each of those pages, but is asking about canonicalizing everything to /BRAND
Any additional feedback would be helpful.
Thank you.
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I would not worry, if they are are duplicate content, then google will rank one above the others. duplcate content is not penalty, thin content can be a problem, where you have a majority of your site as the same page, with minor changes. but what you put forward should not be a problem.
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