Show Decorative Details or Consolidate Pages with Attributes

[stephenfishman]

This is a site with handcrafted home décor products. Is it better seo to have 1 product for each spoon style and use attributes to show the display options?

The decorative display details are important. How do you deal with the important details of the display options?

One set of products is measuring spoon sets. For each spoon there are 4 different display options: wood or pewter and hang on a tall post or hang on a wide wall hanger. And there are 8 different spoon styles.

The pewter displays have design details matched to the spoon style. (eg. the fish spoon has fishes on it's hanger, the fleur de lys has fleur de lys on it)

So the attributes do not change the product itself but instead change the look of how they are displayed.

At present each display option/ spoon style is shown as a separate item. That makes 32 different products on the category page.

What do you feel is the best way to deal with showing style details and consolidating pages for better seo?

Best wishes from Vermont

Handcrafter

[JDP]

I don't know if you have technical issues doing this.  If you do, Drupal Commerce module does this elegantly.  http://www.drupalcommerce.org/  It will allow you to have one product with many displays on one page.

Does each product have a unique product description?   If not, I'd go with one page for sure. Would a user type in the same keywords to find all of those products?  If yes, again one page is the winner IMHO.

[stephenfishman]

The key word is a xyz design measuring spoon.  The only difference is how they are displayed or attached to each other.  Actually, your opinion about the keywords made me see I could improve my keyword phrase "xyz design measuring spoon ."  I'll go with that and the 1 page.

Thank you JDP