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The role of the category page/PLP
Opening up content to Googlebot
Leveraging Keyword Research
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“If I’m Searching ‘Pizza’, I’m not
looking for quality content
about Pizza.
I’m looking for Lunch”
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What is the right page type for this search?
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It’s a Category / Product listing page
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Source:
SEMRush, Est.
Non-branded
traffic
Office.co.uk
PLP
78%
Product
Page
12%
Homepage
10%
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So why do most ecommerce sites do this?
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The role of the category/PLP page
Opening up content to Googlebot
Leveraging Keyword Research
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The n^n problem
101 links =
101^101 possible URL
combinations….
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Aside: What about URLS without a ?query=
string
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We want to…
Let Googlebot index into the filters in a
controlled fashion, to ensure customers get a
great landing page experience
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Better Canonical logic
/categories/trainers?colour=white ✅
/categories/trainers?colour=white&maxPrice=150❌
(canonicalise to /categories/trainers?colour=white)
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Nofollow internal links after 1 level deep
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Backup plan - Blocking in Robots.txt
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What if searchers look for 2 or more ‘things’
?Colour=white&
maxprice=30
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What about?
?colour=white&maxprice=30
?maxprice=30&colour=white
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Extra Step: Figuring out a way to order the
parameters
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Stop blanket canonicalising
Develop rules to give Gbot limited
access
Template the page
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The role of the category/PLP page
Opening up content to Googlebot
Leveraging Keyword Research
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Somewhere is a database table that looks like
this…
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Where are these columns coming from?
• Manufacturer's data CSV
• UX designer's ‘Qualitative’ research
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Natural Language Processing can speed it up
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Work with Developers to integrate into
database (the ‘database schema’)
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Open up filters to Google.
Use Keyword data to define what
filters should be.
Profit