Pages with URL Too Long

[muzzmoz]

I manage a number of Shopify stores for ecommerce clients. MOZ keeps kindly telling me the URLs are too long.

However, this is largely due to the structure of Shopify, which has to include 'collections' and 'products'. For example: https://domain.com.au/collections/collection-name/products/colour-plus-six-to-seven-word-product-name

MOZ recommends no more than 75 characters. This means we have 25-30 characters for both the collection name and product name. VERY challenging!

Questions:

• Anyone know how big an issue URLs are as a ranking factor? I thought pretty low.
• If it's not an issue, how can we turn off this alert from MOZ?
• If it is an issue, anyone got any ideas how to fix it on Shopify sites?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

I wouldn't consider this is a big issue for now. This would only matter probably if you're in a very heavy competition and this is one of the few differences that you have compared to other sites in your same industry. Which basically never happens. Also in this case the URL structure is pretty optimized for SEO. That's why I wouldn't worry about it too much. Unfortunately, as far as I know you can't turn off the alerts for this though.

Martijn.