Hi Dan,

Thanks for the explanation. 
Ok so I block 24 and 48 for Google but users can still use them to navigate through the site. 
I assume this is woocommerce related because Woocommerce creates the output for the productpages right?

Thanks again!

Joost

Hi Dan,
Thanks for your reply.
 For the category t-shirt I've got this:

/product-category/t-shirts/?show_products=24 (24)
/product-category/t-shirts/?show_products=48 (48)
/product-category/t-shirts/?show_products=41 (when All selected)

Let me know! And thanks again for your time! Really apreciate it!Joost

Wow Dan!

Thanks for looking in to this!

I assume you are totally right but have no idea how I should implement this strategy on my site. It just a plain wordpress install with woocommerce. I use Yoast (ofcourse) but never went in-depth with robot.txt.

How can I provide you with more info? Or better; myself

Thanks again,

Joost

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for helping out. I've read a lot about the theory behind View All and why & when it's better to set canonicals on page 2 and 3 to View All.
But I can't seem to find any information how to implement the rel canonical in wordpress/woocommerce.

I know that Google will try to sort it out by itself (if View All) is available but helping them with a canonical will solve a lot of 404 crawls on our site.
Any ideas?

Joost

Hi Guys,

This is a follow up on this thread: http://moz.com/community/q/dynamic-url-parameters-woocommerce-create-404-errors#

I would like to know how I can set a canonical link in Wordpress/Woocommerce which points to "View All" on category pages on our webshop.
The categories on my website can be viewed as 24/48 or All products but because the quanity constantly changes viewing 24 or 48 products isn't always possible.

To point Google in the right direction I want to let them know that "View All" is the best way to go.
I've read that Google's crawler tries to do this automatically but not sure if this is the case on on my website.

Here is some more info on the issue: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663744?hl=en
Thanks for the help!

Joost

Hi Dirk,
Thanks for letting me know I will post a new one to see if someone can help me out!

Best,
Joost

Hi Dirk,
I tried to find some more info last night regarding this issue (the practical part, how to implement it).
But haven't found a solution yet. Thanks for your help!! Really appreciate it.

If someone knows please let me know!
Joost

Or can I just use the canonical input field from the category (when you hit edit under the category)?
I assume that is not specfic enough and means a canonical for the "whole" category, right?

http://monosnap.com/image/yiS3PIkf56wYchL0MkOb3gp2zdjWPX#

Hi Guys,
Our latest Moz crawl shows a lot of 404-errors for pages that create dynamical links for users? (I guess it are dynamic links, not sure).

Situation: On a page which shows products from brand X users can use the pagination icons on the bottom, or click on: View: / 24/48/All.
When a user clicks 48 the end of the link will be /?show_products=48
I think there were some pages that could show 48 products but do not exist anymore (because products are sold out for example), and that's why they show 404's and Moz reports them.

How do I deal with these 404-errors? I can't set a 301-redirect because it depends on how many products are shown (it changes every time).
Should I just ignore these kind of 404-errors? Or what is the best way to handle this situation?

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the great answer! Really helpfull.
Best,

Joost

Thanks Ryan, clear as a bell!

Hey Dan!

Thanks for taking the time to write back.

I found your article very helpfull! But I wasn't sure if I coud use your tips because you expressly stated that you were talking about a normal wordpress blog and not eCommerce. So really nice you took the time to look in to this matter.

It think the  problem with my duplicate page titles has started when I set a template for the product categories because it's not working. I've used the template: %%ct_product_cat%% | %%sitename%% but I see a lot of product categories return:  (empty) | %%sitename %%. And all of these don't have an individual SEO title set by myself. The ones that have an individual SEO title will return that one.

Just to make clear, I've done this because %%category%% is also not an option to use as template. I followed this link http://zendenwebdesign.com/woocommerce-product-category-taxonomy-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/

About the deepness of indexing:
With your last bulletpoint you mean that: If I have a category and within that category products for let's say sunglasses (and I target the same keyword for the category and the article as well) it depends on which will rank better (category or ind. product) for the highest index?

For my individual product pages I use tabs (theme shortcodes that output tabs on frontend) I use 4:

• About (product info content optimized around keyword)
• Brand (brand info)
• Sizing
• Shipping

The Brand info and shipping tab are on a lot of product pages the same. I've got multiple products from a brand and the shipping is for every product (+300) the same. Although Yoast returns a Good SEO score (so does Scribe) do you think this can be seen as duplicate content? Is it better to load this kind of information directly in to the product page template? For less duplicate content issues? (not sure if it even will be seens as duplicate).

Best.Joost

Ok very clear. I will determine per category if I want to index them or not. And keep in mind the uniqueness and potential rank.

I indeed don't have to be way too focused on the results from the crawl. But our categories rank really
Bad (so then the first guess is; maybe because of duplicate content moz is telling me).

Or because they are actually "empty" pages with products that are categorized in it. But that goes for every ecommerce site, right? Maybe I need to write a short description per category and style it with HTML to make it more attractive and give it more content.

How are your thoughts on tags?

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for clearing this out for me! Sounds like a good appraoch! With top level you mean the parents categories? Or categories that I want to rank for?

For example we have a webstore and sell clothing from Scandinavian cloting brands. If I should index only the parents I get: tshits/pants/sweaters/jackets etc (these are to general imo). But the sub-categories which display the brands are much better to rank because they get a lot more search volume for example.

This is the structure we use:
Shirts:

• Brand A (url is /product-category/shirts/branda-shirts) <- these are keywords that our target audience use when they search for shirts from that brand! high potential for us
• Brand B (url is /product-category/shirts/brandb-shirts)
• Brand C (url is /product-category/shirts/brandc-shirts)

Let me know what your thoughts are.Joost

Hi Guys,

I'm new to Moz and really liking it so far!
I run a eCommerce site on Wordpress + WooCommerce and ofcourse use Yoast for SEO optimalisation

I've got a question about my first Crawl report which showed over 600 issues! I've read that this is something that happens more often (http://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success).

Most of them are categorized under:
1. Duplicate Page Titles or;
2. Duplicate Page Content.

Duplicate Page Titles:
These are almost only: product category pages and product tags. Is this problem beeing solved by giving them the right SEO SERP? I see that a lot of categories don't have a proper SEO SERP set up in yoast! Do I need to add this to clear this issue, or do I need to change the actual Title? And how about the Product tags?

Another point (bit more off-topic) I've read here:  http://moz.com/community/q/yoast-seo-plugin-to-index-or-not-to-index-categories  that it's advised to noindex/follow Categories and Tags but isn't that a wierd idea to do for a eCommerce site?!

Duplicate Page Content:
Same goes here almost only Product Categories and product tags that are displayed as duplicate Page content! When I check the results I can click on a blue button for example "+ 17 duplicates" and that shows me (in this case 17 URLS) but they are not related to the fist in any way so not sure where to start here?

Thanks for taking the time to help out!
Joost