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Hi Richard,

thanks a lot for your reply.

Let me clarify: productx is a final product page (not a category page with a variety of products). This means that my productx page basically corresponds to your /final-product example.

According to your post and the htaccess command mention, I assume, that it does not cause problems, if the URL shown in the browser does not correspond to the one, the user actually took?

So no matter if a customer comes to the final product page through 1) 2) 3) 4). The URL shown could always be 1) and thats fine. Is that what you ment?

Thanks in advance

Thanks for your reply Hector,

The way, the pages are structured on our site is the way 99% of ecommerce business have them structured so that is not the issue here. It's more the path itself that concerns me a bit.

Cheers,

Hi eveyone,

got a quick question about URL structures:

I'm currently working in ecommerce with a site that has hundreds of products that can be accessed through different URL paths:

1)www.domain.com/productx

2)www.domain.com/category/productx

3)www.domain.com/category/subcategory/productx

4)www.domain.com/bestsellers/productx

5)...

In order to get rid of dublicate content issues, the canoncial tag has been installed on all the pages required. The problem I'm witnessing now is the following:

If a visitor comes to the site and navigates to the product through example 2) at time the URL shown in the URL browser box is example 4), sometimes example 1) or whatever. So it is constantly changing.

Does anyone know, why this happens and if it has any impact on GA tracking or even on SEO peformance.

Any reply is much appreciated

Thanks you