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Shopify Duplicate Content Issues

jon_xx_x

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I decided to get with Shopify because I just wante a simple cart that's easy to use, and not a huge learning curve.
I' want to silo my site properly and have a real nice structure.
However I'm having some issues.
Basically on shopify you create 'collections'.
So say I have 100 products with various brands and prices.
I can create a collection that only lists certain brands
ie www.example.com/collections/nike/products/
Or I can do it by price, so it would be
www.example.com/collections/high-price/products/
The problem is, if I click on one of the products, it will use the root URL depending what category the person is.
So it's creating duplicate content. ie
www.example.com/collections/nike/products/airjodans150/
www.example.com/collections/high-price/products/airjordans150/

They say adding
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonical_url }}" />
will solve the issue.
What that does I believe is just put the canonical url as
www.exmaple.com/products/airjordans150/
The good thing is no duplicate content, the bad thing is I can't really silo that and it makes a mess.

Is there anything I can do to properly silo the site witha good directory base and no duplicate content?
 
Surely if you only add each product to a single category then it would only be accessible via 1 URL, can't you do that?

if not, I reckon maybe you could use a regular expression in htaccess to 301 any product from one category to the same product URL just with the other category in it.

thats a bit messy but if spotify don't support what your trying to achieve then you haven't got much choice.
 
Same problem with most of the e-commerce platform. Been working with magento for the last 3-4 years and fighting with it every day :D
 
Surely if you only add each product to a single category then it would only be accessible via 1 URL, can't you do that?

if not, I reckon maybe you could use a regular expression in htaccess to 301 any product from one category to the same product URL just with the other category in it.

thats a bit messy but if spotify don't support what your trying to achieve then you haven't got much choice.

Well the way it works is, if I want to list products by brand, I create a brand collection. If I want to list by price, I create a price collection ie $50-$100. If I want to list products by type ie shoes, shirts, etc, then I create collections for those. So you have a ton of collections and a ton of URLs.
 
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