Products vs Collections urls

[aviannah987]

I'm seeing the following;

• When navigating to a Product from a Collections page the Product page is displayed as .com/collections/collection-name/products/product-name
• Looking at the Canonical link on that page it points to the true product page - .com/products/product-name

My question is, as our products only belong to one collection, is there a way to make the Product shown in the collection page link directly through the Collection page?

i.e. It looks the same however the products displayed link to - .com/products/product-name rather than .com/collections/collection-name/products/product-name

The reason I ask is that from an SEO point of view the internal linking from the collections pages point to the /collections/ URL which is then canonically redirected to /products/ which adds time to crawling the site as well as loses link equity through the redirect.

[Tejas_Nadpara]

@aviannah987 

Replace the product.url in your collections template or other templates where collection product links are used.

{{ product.url | within: collection }}

and replace with

{{ product.url }}

for example:

Cheers,

Tejas

[Fayyaz_Ahmed · Accepted solution]

Hello Aviannah:
This is a great question. Unfortunately, it's not something that is able to be changed. Only handles are able to be adjusted. So you could change what the URL displays the product name to be, but the Shopify generated URLs will stay the same. 

Basically, the URL is like breadcrumb navigation. Whatever the route that it takes to get to a product will be shown in the URL. So, in this case, the product was in the collection so it will show /collection/collection-name/products/product-name. 

i hope that helped to clarify for you :)

[ANAND11]

Thank You @Tejas_Nadpara 

This was very useful as I am having the same issue.

[sylvie_n]

Hi Tejas,

I am trying to achieve the same thing, but cannot find any reference to 'within: collection' in any of the collection template files.

Any clues on where else I can look?
The theme is debut

Many thanks,

Sylvia

[Tejas_Nadpara]

@sylvie_n 

It would be in "product-card-grid.liquid" file.

Thank you,

Tejas

[sylvie_n]

Hi Tejas,

Thank you for your quick reply. This file doesn't seem to exist on our theme.

Please see screenshots:

[sylvie_n]

Sorry, my mistake, I've found.

That worked - thank you so much!!