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Hi Becky,

I have a few questions:

• How many is a lot? More than 20%?
• What does "lower quality products" mean? Do you have products with duplicated content which can be found also in another ecommerce sites? Or do you have (near) duplicates within your website?
• And, how many visitors did come to that product pages from the search engines? Can you exclude them without big consequences?

Probably, using of the noindex won't have positive impact on the rankings for more important pages. The noindexed pages will be still crawled and they will get a link juice.

Disallow by robots.txt could be better solution. But it seems to be very complicated.

Try to consider these solutions:

• Solution 1: Move lower quality product to the end of the product listing. Important products should be in the beginning.
• Solution 2: Exclude products from the product listing. You can keep it in database, findable by internal search.
• Solutions 3: Merge similar products, use only one URL. If products have another feature like color, user would choose it by select box.
• Solutions 4: Choose one main product and similar products can be used as "sub products" (check image with the example below)

Jan.

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Hello Jason,

no, it wouldn’t.
If you use canonical on https://www.qwikvid.com/realestate/go/v1/home/?idx=wDg1Gdwt7wnQiR3LMeCx28qPnWTKM0JV, search engines will be led to http://www.944milmadadr.com. And there they will be redirected back to https://www.qwikvid.com/realestate/go/v1/home/?idx=wDg1Gdwt7wnQiR3LMeCx28qPnWTKM0JV.

This solution will lead to infinity loop with unpredictable behaviour of search engines.
Btw. status code with the redirect is 302. I think better solution is to use code 301.

You have a few other options:

• Use only domain 944milmadadr.com: 
  Advantage: Domain will be shown in search results.
  Disadvantage: If the domain expires, you will lose all link juice.
• 301 redirect from 944milmadadr.com to qwikvid.com:
  Advantage: You don’t have to keep domains for years.
  Disadvantage: qwikvid.com domain in search results.

sfR1u

Hi Chris,

I think the best is the first option.

You can use teasers on the main product page for each theme like cycling, diving etc. And the details will be on the separate subpages.

Inbound link for main product page will support all subpages. And you can link between each subpage too.

NO4fc

Hi Chris,

I think the best is the first option.

You can use teasers on the main product page for each theme like cycling, diving etc. And the details will be on the separate subpages.

Inbound link for main product page will support all subpages. And you can link between each subpage too.

NO4fc

Hello Jason,

no, it wouldn’t.
If you use canonical on https://www.qwikvid.com/realestate/go/v1/home/?idx=wDg1Gdwt7wnQiR3LMeCx28qPnWTKM0JV, search engines will be led to http://www.944milmadadr.com. And there they will be redirected back to https://www.qwikvid.com/realestate/go/v1/home/?idx=wDg1Gdwt7wnQiR3LMeCx28qPnWTKM0JV.

This solution will lead to infinity loop with unpredictable behaviour of search engines.
Btw. status code with the redirect is 302. I think better solution is to use code 301.

You have a few other options:

• Use only domain 944milmadadr.com: 
  Advantage: Domain will be shown in search results.
  Disadvantage: If the domain expires, you will lose all link juice.
• 301 redirect from 944milmadadr.com to qwikvid.com:
  Advantage: You don’t have to keep domains for years.
  Disadvantage: qwikvid.com domain in search results.

sfR1u