Hi! I have done SEO of my website but saw no results and that was very frustrating. I think maybe that is because of so much duplicate content.
I have a menu like this for girls, boys, and babies, and then comes the main shop by category menu. The products are almost the same but I did this to make my site user-friendly as you can see, there are age groups specified in the menu.
This creates a lot of links for my site hence, duplicate content. Can anyone guide me is this causing no rankings and failed SEO attempts and is this a good practice to have so many links for an e-commerce site?
Should I remove these links and keep only the shop by category menu and redirect all of the links remaining?
you can see the website here and tell me is this the issue: theplanetjunior.com
Hello @planetjuniorseo ,
I’m Gina - Product Manager at flareAI. flareAI has helped Shopify stores generate $5+ million in sales from Google Search, on autopilot.
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No. Linking the same URL/page multiple times in other different pages/collections won’t affect SEO or ranking. Moreover, there are a lot of sites which has the same product in multiple categories.
SEO is not a one-time thing. It’s an ongoing process. Before you do on-page SEO, the page has to be found on Google (indexed). Without getting the page indexed, doesn’t matter how good the on-page SEO is, if Google does not index the page, customers cannot find the page on Google Search.
The below listed are the essentials which help your website to get easily and fastly found on Google.
- Add appropriate keywords related to the product
It’s very important to make sure that you know how to use keywords in your content correctly so that your content has a better chance of being found, indexed, and ranked. You can put your keywords in the page title, meta description, image description and alt tags, headers and titles, and product description.
- Add internal links
Link to your product pages from the home page. The more connected your website, the more Google understands your store and its products.
- Add backlinks
Backlinks are links on websites other than your own that go back to a page on your website. They represent another website’s traffic coming to your own site. Backlinks are important for SEO because they signal to Google that another resource finds your content valuable enough to link to it within their own content. Offering to write guest posts for blogs in your niche will earn you a link too.
- Redirect old discontinued product pages
If any links to the discontinued items are on your website, it will increase your bounce rate. Instead of such links, you can set up redirects to new pages.
- Make sure your pages are not blocked by robots.txt and noindex, nofollow tags
Make sure robots.txt is not blocking any pages from crawling. Also make sure your meta tags don’t have Noindex, Nofollow. Change any meta tags with the words noindex, nofollow on them so they read index, follow instead.
- Consider adding more blogs
Blogging is a great technique to increase the traffic and ranking of your website. If you blog consistently with high-quality content over a long period, your site will rank higher for specific keywords or topics.
- Improve your website page speed
Slow-loading sites make Google less likely to want them featured in the top results of their index. Make sure your website loads within 3 seconds.
- Add high-quality content
Avoid copy-pasting the description provided by the manufacturer. The product description gives you a great opportunity to integrate SEO keywords and the reason why one should purchase it.
- Break up your content with Header Tags
Headings don’t just make the content on a webpage better organized and easier to read. H1 tags play an important role in SEO. On the page, H1’s are very noticeable due to their size and they tell people what they’re going to see on the rest of the page. You can include tags for page titles and don’t include more than 1
tag in a page.
- Optimize page links
URLs provide information to search engines about the content of a page, its context, and its target. You can add target keywords in the page titles which will get a better ranking based on the searched keywords.
- Make your site mobile-friendly
No matter how great the content on your website is, if it’s not optimized for viewing on a smartphone or tablet, you’re going to lose rankings and traffic. A mobile-friendly website is critical to getting your site indexed by Google since it introduced Mobile-First indexing.
- Well-written site content
Well-written content is critical for succeeding on Google. If you have minimal content that doesn’t at least meet your competition’s levels, then you may have significant issues.
- Make the site user-friendly
Google will rank your site higher in search results if it’s easy for visitors to find what they’re looking for and navigate around the website without feeling frustrated. Google doesn’t want visitors on a page that loads forever or very confusing navigation or has too many distractions.
SEO only won’t help your web pages rank better and higher in the search results. You have to keep sending regular store updates to search engines like Google. This will help to gain more visibility from your target audience, drive more traffic, and most importantly, increase conversions or sales. You will get less sales and traffic if your products are not found on Google. When your customers search on Google, your product can be found only if Google has indexed the page. flareAI will show which pages are found on Google, and which are not. flareAI also helps to get your new products found on Google, the world’s largest FREE eCommerce sales channel.
Hope this was helpful! Cheers!
Gina
flareAI
you didnt get the point. the main problem is that I have a large menu with various age specified categories as you can see on the store under shop for boys, girls, etc. Is it over categorization or keyword cannibalization?
Does this affect my SEO?