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Hello Dana,

It works perfectly!  I entered one product under three different categories and the same URL showed for all three.

Thank You!

Kelly

Thanks for your help!

Hello Dana,
BigCommerce does allow a person to assign a product to  multiple categories so it probably works the same way.   I was under the impression that when one product was assigned to multiple categories that a different URL would be used for each category.  If the same URL is used as with your store, my problem is solved.  I will check that out.

Thank you very much!

Kelly

Hello,

Thank you for responding to my question.

I'm not sure what you mean by this....."completely separate your product URLs from your category URLs".  My level of knowledge isn't advanced.

I am building a BigCommerce store for selling framed art.  Many of the pieces of art will fall in more than one product category.

Let's say I have a framed print of a photograph of a western landscape.  This piece of art would fit into these categories;  "western", "landscape", and "photography".   I would have three pages with duplicate content for just this one framed print.

Will google give me less page rank due to this?  Can all the link juice be given to just one of the three categories by use of rel=canonical?  If so, does anyone know how to do this for a bigcommerce site?

I would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks,

Kelly

Hello Mike,

Thank you for taking your time to respond.  I can easily write good content using all those keywords and can do so without stuffing.

Hello Brooke,

Thanks very much for your input.  I do intend on optimizing indiviual pages but I'm a little confused on how to go about it.

I was a little bit general in my first post.   Let's say I want to optimize a page on my site for the specific type of chap called "chinks".  My google adwords campaigns have shown that consistently over a several year period, the most searched keywords are 1) chinks, 2) chinks chaps, 3) western chinks, 4) cowboy chinks.  They all have significant traffic.

I have only one product category for chinks on my website and all the pairs of chinks that we sell are shown that category.  Do I need to specifically choose only one of the four keywords to optimize that product page for?  Do I  just forget about having decent placement for the other three?  I could create four product categories for chinks and optimize each one for each of the keywords but that would look like a ridiculous site to anyone searching for chinks on my website because there would be four different categories, each with a different name but all four would show exactly the same chaps.  Logic tells me that I can't optimize my existing chink category for all four keywords.

Also, should I optimize the paragraphs describing each of the individual pairs of chinks with the same keywords or would this create keyword cannibalization?

Thank you,

Kelly

I have a couple of websites for retailing the western chaps manufactured by my company.  I have recently tried to increase my learning for SEO since one of my main sites (started in 2006) just lost about 45% of it's organic search volume since the end of May.  It seems my search to learn just creates more and more questions.

I have been using google adwords for several years now and have used that information to find the most searched keywords.  There are some general keywords like western chaps and cowboy chaps that receive decent search volume.  If I get more specific to a certain type of chap, chinks for example, the popular high volume keywords are chinks, chinks chaps, western chinks, and cowboy chinks.  These all relate to one type of chap...the chink.  I want to be visible for these keywords, but how does one optimize for more than one without diluting?  Should I also try to optimize on the homepage of my sites for the general terms like western chaps and cowboy chaps?  Can I optimize for both?

I could really use some help.  Any experts out there up to the job of consulting for me, some with extensive knowledge and experience?  I'm not looking for the SEO giants with hundreds of clients.  I don't feel that I will get the proper value from those types.  My company is small and spending is an issue, that's why I would like someone to consult with.  I should be able to do most of the labor, I just need the knowledge.

Hello Mike,

Thank you for taking your time to respond.  I can easily write good content using all those keywords and can do so without stuffing.

Hello,

Thank you for responding to my question.

I'm not sure what you mean by this....."completely separate your product URLs from your category URLs".  My level of knowledge isn't advanced.

Hello Dana,

It works perfectly!  I entered one product under three different categories and the same URL showed for all three.

Thank You!

Kelly