Kim Goddard
Newbie
- Sep 29, 2016
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I need your help please, SEO experts!
I am building a woo store and I have a line of products that contains only 5 products, each product has a different name in my niche. These products can be customized into different themes, so basically I have around 50 themes that can be applied to each product and this is actually my USP (unique selling point).
For easy user experience, I thought about creating 5 product categories for each product and use attributes to create those themes then assign them to products, this way the customer can enter any product category he wants and filter by the theme he prefers.
After reading many articles about woo-commerce product attributes (which usually used to filter products by colors and sizes) almost all articles emphasize the importance of adding a NOINDEX tag to the attributes and their pages for the simple reason that Google will consider them as a duplicate content.
An example from an article I read:
While faceted navigation can be useful for users, by helping them find what they are looking for quickly, it can also be problematic when it comes to crawling. Each selectable option can generate a new URL on the website by adding parameters such as colour or size. For example, the following pages would look very similar to search engines:
***com/category
***com/category?colour=blue
***com/category?colour=blue&size=small
***com/category?colour=blue&size=small&order=price-asc
Having just 5 unique filtering options could generate as many as 3,125 different URLs per category page depending on how your faceted navigation is setup. Stopping search engines from crawling these additional pages is relatively simple, only requiring two changes:
Use nofollow on all facet links
Deploy meta robots or x-robots noindex, nofollow on all additional pages
My goal is not only to create a good user experience but also to rank those themed pages, for instance; ***com***/theme/nature***
Where "theme" is the attribute name and "nature" is the attribute term. So if I added a NOINDEX tag to the attribute pages I will lose my entire unique selling point in the store. The second option is creating those theme as a product sub-category, but in this case, it will be a serious case of duplicate content, for example:
***com**/product-category/product_1/theme-nature
***com**/product-category/product_2/theme-nature
In this case, each product category will have the same sub-category, which doesn't make any sense!
My question is that how can I create a good user experience and also help my whole store to comply with SEO good practice? And stay away from duplicate content.
Thank you and sorry for my long post as I needed to explain my whole situation.
I am building a woo store and I have a line of products that contains only 5 products, each product has a different name in my niche. These products can be customized into different themes, so basically I have around 50 themes that can be applied to each product and this is actually my USP (unique selling point).
For easy user experience, I thought about creating 5 product categories for each product and use attributes to create those themes then assign them to products, this way the customer can enter any product category he wants and filter by the theme he prefers.
After reading many articles about woo-commerce product attributes (which usually used to filter products by colors and sizes) almost all articles emphasize the importance of adding a NOINDEX tag to the attributes and their pages for the simple reason that Google will consider them as a duplicate content.
An example from an article I read:
While faceted navigation can be useful for users, by helping them find what they are looking for quickly, it can also be problematic when it comes to crawling. Each selectable option can generate a new URL on the website by adding parameters such as colour or size. For example, the following pages would look very similar to search engines:
***com/category
***com/category?colour=blue
***com/category?colour=blue&size=small
***com/category?colour=blue&size=small&order=price-asc
Having just 5 unique filtering options could generate as many as 3,125 different URLs per category page depending on how your faceted navigation is setup. Stopping search engines from crawling these additional pages is relatively simple, only requiring two changes:
Use nofollow on all facet links
Deploy meta robots or x-robots noindex, nofollow on all additional pages
My goal is not only to create a good user experience but also to rank those themed pages, for instance; ***com***/theme/nature***
Where "theme" is the attribute name and "nature" is the attribute term. So if I added a NOINDEX tag to the attribute pages I will lose my entire unique selling point in the store. The second option is creating those theme as a product sub-category, but in this case, it will be a serious case of duplicate content, for example:
***com**/product-category/product_1/theme-nature
***com**/product-category/product_2/theme-nature
In this case, each product category will have the same sub-category, which doesn't make any sense!
My question is that how can I create a good user experience and also help my whole store to comply with SEO good practice? And stay away from duplicate content.
Thank you and sorry for my long post as I needed to explain my whole situation.
