Recently Brian was asking about url lengths in regards to SEO: Which is better for SEO – Navigation which gives a shorter path or navigation through the extra collections folder? I have some collections which just have 2-3 items. I could setup my mega menu to send customers directly to a product page or through …
Tag: canonicalization
How to link to your Shopify products without screwing up your long-term SEO
Questions about Shopify’s urls for products in a collection are a frequent visitor to my inbox. When a customer was running an SEO audit, he got back a lot of reports about duplicate title tags. In his words: here is something I found classified as duplicate titles (using ScreamingFrog). Both are automatically created by Shopify.Any …

Investigating how Google treats duplicate pages in Shopify (canonicalization)
While poking around Google’s new Search Console I ran into this little option in the URL inspector. Notice the last item there, "Google-selected canonical" which is the inspected URL. I also popped up the help text for you too. The url I tested was the product-only url, one that looks like /products/product-handle Compare that to …