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Thanks Andy!!!

Thanks Andy,

We currently dont have any H1 space on these category pages. What do you think I should do based on your experience? Recommend to get an H1 actually created for these pages?
Did you see the image of the screenshot?

Cheers.

Kay

Hi Mozzers!

For parametric URL's would you recommend meta robot or robot.txt file?
For example: http://www.exmaple.com//category/product/cat no./quickView I want to stop indexing /quickView URLs.

And what's the real difference between the two?

Thanks again!

Kay

Hi Guys,

So I am back asking more questions, but I am slowly learning

This next one, I have looked everywhere and I can't get my head around h tags on ecomm sites. I have looked at competitors and non competitors and still am not sure which is the right or wrong thing to do, specifically in this instance, category pages. Our I.T. dept is somewhat under resourced and I don't want to waste their time with test and trial on this particular issue.

Category landing pages...

There are shed loads of category listing pages on our site, at the moment the h1 tag for each sub-category is listed in the end path of the breadcrumb, there is no other spaces on the page accept the left hand navigation.

Which is the better to use, breadcrumb or nav?

We would have to totally recode our left hand nav which is pretty set up for the whole site. The reason I ask this question to you is because an SEO agency recommended that we...

• Add the H1 to the left hand navigation and make it customisable so that it is not the same as the breadcrumb keywords. I have attached an image of a competitor of ours that so the same thing currently, to show what I mean...

Right now I am not sure what to tell the agency and what the right thing to do is. I read a post saying that we are actually doing the right thing under the circumstances. Does anyone have a best practise good example of generally what we should do for category pages?

Your help is always muchly appreciated

Kindest,

Kay

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Thank you Ethan, Yes I will recommend a 301 redirect to the I.T. guys, but I do think that my I.T. guys wont like me much

Please can I ask - why would I need to create more content to canonicalise it if I already have two url's? Would I not just add code to both pages?

If the page 1 url exists and temp redirects it to the page 2 url, would I not just add code to both pages? Or if I add code to the page 1 url, would it be exactly the same to the other variations?

Please teach me this as I will need to explain it to the I.T. dept as this was there recommendations. I think I will most definitely need tech help moving forward!

Thanks a lot for your time!

Thanks Patrick,

This is indeed helpful. I have read these links; SO:

• Redirects should be 301.

• I need to add href lang tags (for google and bing) on my website and I need to look more into geo targeting in more detail.

- Do you recommend I need to find out why these urls are being created? and yes this has also crossed over with the duplicate content project we are running too. But 301's are a solution until I figure out why these url's are being created so we can get it fixed.

I will check the sitemap today.

Thanks for your advice

Hey Guys,

I am fairly new to 'technical' SEO as I was lucky enough in my old role to have technical expertise in the team for things like this, now I am learning myself and it is a slow and painful process, so your expertise is soooo much appreciated! My I.T. dept say that I have 3 instances on my website where the Hybris platform is creating a 302 redirect automatically - the first:

1. URL doesn't exist - Hybris creates a temp 302 - the system does not create case sensitive url's

| http://www.example.fr/Example/Marques/0180/brand/CHANEL | URL doesn't exist | TRUE | 302 |

| http://www.example.fr/Example/Marques/0015/brand/Giorgio-Armani | URL doesn't exist | TRUE | 302 |
| http://www.example.fr/fr/Example/marken/0507/brand/lancome | URL doesn't exist | TRUE | 302 |

I believe these are being redirected due to the fact that capital letters are being created in the url.

2. Multi-lingual redirects

I have a German and French version of my site and whenever any switches from one URL to the other using our language selector a 302 is created.

3. Dynamic URL elements

Dynamic url elements and special characters are being created in the URL, I am not sure where this is happening, but my I.T. department would like me to go and see whether this is something that can be created by a browser.

If anyone has any similar problems or have any advice or insights even, I would love to hear from you! Thanks

Hi,

I am hoping someone could help explain - I have a screaming frog account and ran a crawl using it, it returned a lot of 0 status codes 'connection timeout', 'DNS lookup failed' and 'Connection Refused'. However, the SEO MOZ Crawl doesn't detect any of this.

I am fairly new to these tools, do you know why this is?

Thanks a lot!