Hi Dan

Yeh I have looked at that one thank you. It's something I'll need to get buy in from, but worth looking at doing

Hi

Yes they're in the footer, does Google still class the fact that it's a drop down as a concern with links if they're in the footer?

I thought as they weren't anchor text links that it wouldn;t be as much of an issue?

Hi

We have a number of sister sites across Europe - the sites are under a different domain name, but have a very similar layout & product offering.

When looking at duplicate content, they are flagged as being a moderate risk with similar content - we don't duplicate product content, however it's similar.

We also link to them in the footer in a drop down - not anchor text links - however this is still seen by Google.

I don't think I'll be able to remove links to our sister companies, but should I implement the Href lang if the sites are slightly different? Or find another way to link to them?

Here's an example http://www.key.co.uk/en/key & https://www.manutan.fr/fr/maf

Thank you both for the responses.

The links aren't there for SEO value, more for business purposes but I'm mindful of any negative affects from Google.

Hi

We have a number of sister companies and link to them via a drop down in the footer - are these links as dangerous as anchor text links?

Hi,

Yes we use the SKU's on the other pages too. Thanks for everyone's feedback

Thanks, I'll set up some tests to see if this proves anything either way

Thanks

Also just to add, with regard to product pages - we link to the SKU page in email marketing & these URL's with the SKU are what users can find when searching in the onsite search facility.

As the urls with the SKU's will get more traffic & active users through other mediums, could this affect how Google rates them?

With regard to internal links we link the the permanent URL and not the SKU URL however

Great thank you.

Do you know of any good internal duplicate content checkers? I am looking at copyscape or siteliner.

Thanks

Great thanks for your input.

With regard to the duplicate content, it's not so much on these pages which are canonicalised, it's more so on ranges of products under separate URLs. e.g. Storage boxes

A lot of the ranges are so similar, that the product description points are the same and I wanted to include some unique text - if it's worth doing

Thanks!

Hi

I have a couple of questions regarding the best way to optimise SKU pages on a large ecommerce site.

At the moment we have 2 landing pages per product - one is the primary landing page with no SKU, the other includes the SKU in the URL so our sales people & customers can find it when using the search facility on the site. The SKU landing page has a canonical pointing to the primary page as they're duplicates.

Is this the best way? Or is it better to have the one page with the SKU in the URL?

Also, we have loads of products with the very similar product descriptions, I am working on trying to include a unique paragraph or few sentences on these to improve the content - how dangerous is the duplicate content within your own site?

I know its best to have totally unique content, but it won't be possible on a site with thousands of products and a small team. At the moment I am trying to prioritise the products to update.

Thank you

Great thank you!

I'll give both a go!