How can I effectively redirect product collection URLs on my site?

Technical Q&A
1

Hi guys,

We’ve got two types of urls being indexed on Google:

/products/example-product-handle

and

/collections/all/products/example-product-handle

We resolved the second URL by removing the within: collection from liquid, fine, but Google are still indexing those urls?

I tried to add a redirect in the admin, e.g.

Redirect From /collections/all/products/example-product-handle

Redirect To /products/example-product-handle

But it’s not working as example-product-handle is a valid product / active product still?

Is there any easy way to 301 redirect all these types of urls?

Many thanks,

Jorge

2

You can only redirect something when the url 404s. Since those urls work the redirection won’t trigger.

Does your theme not have canonical urls in place? Care to share a link to a product on your shop that you’re concerned about?

3

Hey! AH man, that’s unfortunate - we have canonicals in place that are to the correct product url, but Google are flagging it as an issue as canonical doesn’t match the parent url