Thank you Rob, that really helps!

Does Google differentiate between keyphrase structures such as Mens Sunglasses & Men**'**s Sunglasses? I.e. does the inclusion/exclusion of an apostrophe make any difference when optimising your main keyword/phrase for a page?

Keyword explorer appears to give different results..... I.e. no data for Men's Sunglasses, but data appears for Mens sunglasses. So if I optimise my page to include the apostrophe, will it screw the potential success for that page?

Thanks

Bob

I am running a WordPress/WooCommerce site for a client, and Moz is picking up some issues with URL's generated from WooCommerce product attribute filters. For example:

..co.uk/womens-prescription-glasses/?filter_gender=mens&filter_style=full-rim&filter_shape=oval

How do I get Google to ignore these filters?
I am running Yoast Premium, but not sure if this can solve the issue? Product categories are canonicalised to the root category URL.

Any suggestions very gratefully appreciated.

Thanks

Bob

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your response and suggestions. I think I've found a solution to all of the issues I'm currently experiencing!

https://www.perfectseourl.com/

This should fix the -2 problem, as I can now dispense with the "product-category" slug completely and also follow your suggestion of going with the "womens" category name etc.

Many thanks!

I am managing a woocommerce store selling prescription glasses/spectacles.

We have a lot of categories with similar names and I want to adopt the best possible naming convention to get the best from search.

So we have a number of similar categories for both Men's and women's glasses. Currently they are named as follows:

Women's Glasses-Women's Rimless Glasses
-Women's Semi Rimless Glasses
-Women's Plastic Glasses
-Women's Metal Glasses
-Women's Retro Glasses

Currently, this results in the following URL structure for sub categories:

https://www.glassesonspec.co.uk/product-category/womens-glasses-2/womens-rimless-glasses/

(For some reason WooCommerce is adding -2 to the end of the primary category name, it will not let me change it for some reason, this is the subject of a further investigation!)

So first question, is there too much duplication of the word glasses on the sub items? for example, should they read;

Women's Glasses
-Rimless
-Semi Rimless
-Plastic
-Metal
-Retro

Hence giving this URL structure:

https://www.glassesonspec.co.uk/product-category/womens-glasses-2/rimless/

OR, should we change the top level category name to just Women's and let the sub categories complete the picture?:

Women's
-Rimless Glasses
-Semi Rimless Glasses
-Plastic Glasses
-Metal Glasses
-Retro Glasses

Giving this example URL structure:

https://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk/product-category/womens/rimless-glasses/

This would solve my hyphenation problem, however my fear is the top level category on it's own is not descriptive enough when viewed as stand alone:

https://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk/product-category/womens/

The second part of my question relates to how to deal with the change in URL structure. I am using Yoast Premium, so will that pick up the changes and automatically redirect to the new one as it does when done manually? Or will I need to take a different approach using HTACCESS commands?

I hope the above makes sense,

Many thanks,

Bob

I manage a store selling prescription glasses, many of which are unisex or apply to more than one category.

I have already assigned the canonical URL for each category, but my question is, if a product appears in more than one category, do I need to set the canonical URL in each product to reflect the category I want it to index under? Therefore, any additional categories that product appears in simply refers the link value back to the canonical URL.

I note that in Yoast, under each product, there's note in the canonical setting to leave it empty to default to permalink, so this has confused me a little. I'm just concerned that by applying a product to multiple categories, it may be causing duplicate content, as I have a lot of duplicate issues which I'll raise in another question.

Thanks!