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So continue with the car example, my client currently has the following types of pages:

1. A brand page www.example.com/Kia (explains all about the brand, not connected to woo commerce )

2. A 'brand' category page in the shop, where all the products of the brand are listed www.example.com/shop/kia

3. Product pages (the specific cars) - www.example.com/shop/Kia-Sorento-2017

My concern is that 'page type 1' and 'page type 2' are redundant.

His reason for wanting to have both 'page type 1' and 'page type 2' has to do with the template and it's limitations (on 'type 2' category pages, any added info/text currently displays above the products - so they aren't seen right away).

So the question is which is better:

a) Is it OK for his site to have both ' page type 1' www.example.com/kia  and 'page type 2'? www.example.com/shop/kia.... Or

b) Should he remove the 'page type 1" brand pages (www.example.com/kia), only have the 'page type 2' brand category pages in the shop (www.example.com/shop/kia) and find a way to display all the detailed text explaining about Kia below the images (as opposed to above, which the template is currently designed to do)

Sorry to come back to this again, but could you define MODEL and BRAND pages?

What I understood from you is that 'MODEL pages' are the specific product pages in the store, whereas 'brand pages' would be category pages in the shop. Is that correct?

Just to be clear, my client is interested in having:

1. Brand pages, explaining the brand, not connected to woo commerce

2. Product category pages (products that qualify as urban bikes, family bikes, also grouped as a brand

3. Product pages, for the specific bike models he's selling

My concern is that having two brand pages (as both regular Wordpress pages and also Woo Commerce product category pages) will lead to keyword cannibalization. Thanks for helping to clarify.

Hi all,

This is my first foray into e-commerce SEO.

I'm working with a new client who sells upscale eBikes online.  Since his products are expensive, he wants to have informational pages about the brands he sells eg. www.example.com/brand. However these brands are also category pages for his online shop eg. www.example.com/shop/brand

I'm worried about keyword cannibalization and adding an extra step/click to get to the shop (right now the navigational menu takes you to the information page and from there you have to click to get to the shop)

I'm pretty sure it would make more sense to have ONE killer shopping page that includes all the brand information but I want to be 100% sure before I advise him to take this big step.

Thoughts?

Thanks Steve.

So for example.com/post-name, should I request to index, even if it has the page I've redirected to (/post-type/post-name) is indexed already?

Hi all,

Many blog posts used to be showing 404s when doing crawl tests and in search console (despite being there when visited.) I realized it was an issue with URL structure. It used to be example.com/post-name

I've fixed the issue by changing the URL structure in Wordpress so that they now follow the structure of example.com/post-type/post-name

According to sitemaps, Google has now indexed all posts in /post-type/post-name.

My question is what to do with crawl errors in Search Console that are still there for example.com/postname. When I fetch, I get a redirect status (which is accurate).  At this point should I request to index or mark as fixed?

Thank you!

Hi all,

This is my first foray into e-commerce SEO.

I'm working with a new client who sells upscale eBikes online.  Since his products are expensive, he wants to have informational pages about the brands he sells eg. www.example.com/brand. However these brands are also category pages for his online shop eg. www.example.com/shop/brand

I'm worried about keyword cannibalization and adding an extra step/click to get to the shop (right now the navigational menu takes you to the information page and from there you have to click to get to the shop)

I'm pretty sure it would make more sense to have ONE killer shopping page that includes all the brand information but I want to be 100% sure before I advise him to take this big step.

Thoughts?