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    • levalencia1
      levalencia1 last edited by

      I have received lots of warnings because of long urls.

      Most of them are because my website has many Attributes to FILTER out products.

      And each time the user clicks on one, its added to the URL.

      pls see my site here: www.theprinterdepo.com

      The warning is here:

      Although search engines can crawl dynamic URLs, search engine representatives have warned against using over 2 parameters in any given URL.

      The question to the community is:

      -What should I do?  These attributes really help the user to find easier the products.

      I could remove some of the attributes,  I am not sure if my ecommerce solution (MAGENTO), allows to change the behavior of this so that this does not use querystring parameters.

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      • sesertin
        sesertin last edited by

        You should decide which pages you want indexed. You should ask someone who uses Magento about additional practcal tips, I haven't used it so far. As i see parameters appear when you filter results according to price or some other technical parameter. The problem is not just the parameter in the url, but also that the title of the page reamins the same although both content and url is changed.This way you are generating duplicate titles as well.

        One solution might be to place canonical link elements when results are filtered as those are not specific to your search term. The link should tell google that the canonical page for filtered results is the category page itself. So for https://www.theprinterdepo.com/printer-bundles/refurbished-laser-printer-bundles.html?price=3%2C100 the canonical page would be https://www.theprinterdepo.com/printer-bundles/refurbished-laser-printer-bundles.html. Be aware with simply removing attributes because if those pages are already displayed in SERPs than you might lose traffic. Canonical would be the best solution I think.

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