Why does duplicating listings affect my product URLs?

Topic summary

When duplicating product listings to save time, the generated URLs automatically include “copy-of-another-product” in the slug, which appears unprofessional when sharing links with customers.

Solution provided:

  • Navigate to the Search engine listing section within each duplicated product
  • Click Edit
  • Manually modify the URL handle field to create a unique, custom URL for each product

This requires manual intervention for each duplicated listing but ensures clean, professional product URLs without the “copy-of” prefix.

Summarized with AI on November 17. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hello,

I’ve listed a lot of items on my store and used duplicate listing option to save time. However, when I’m sending a link of an item to someone, the url shows “copy of another product.” I want each product to have their unique URL. Have attached link of item with this issue.

Link: https://swisstimeusa.com/products/copy-of-audemars-piguet-42mm-royal-oak-offshore-las-vegas-strip-limited-edition-26186sn-2

After duplicate product, you must go to Search engine listing section of product, click Edit, edit handle of product in URL handle to create own product URL