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When Your Inventory Changes: SEO Tips For Changing Product Pages
How can you optimize your products URLs to make the most out of them from a search and conversion perspective while avoiding the most common lifecycle issues of your inventory? Take a look!
How can you optimize your products URLs to make the most out of them from a search and conversion perspective while avoiding the most common lifecycle issues of your inventory? Take a look!
When Your Inventory Changes: SEO Tips For Changing Product Pages
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
When Your
Inventory
Changes: SEO
Tips For
Changing
Product Pages
#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
All paths of your site lead to your products
pages, which can make or break conversions
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Your products pages are valuable
to attract bottom of the funnel searches
Semrush
4.
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… that can be
highly profitable to
target at an
aggregated basis
Semrush
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Attractive
product pages
tend to be also
highly shared
and a magnet
for backlinks
Moz
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… which can end up making them some
of your top ones traffic wise too
Semrush
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As happens with Target
Semrush
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
However, due to their high number and
dynamic inventory is easy to generate errors
sistrix
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Caused by a
lack of
consistency
when handling
their http
status
10.
#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
Internal linking
issues, by
pointing to
non-canonical
products URLs
versions
11.
#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
Entirely
leaving them
out of the
crawlable Web
structure
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
Or letting them eat your crawl budget while
being excluded from the search index
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
Negatively affecting the number of crawled
pages that bring organic search traffic value
Indexable URLs that don’tIndexable URLs that attract organic search traffic
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And ultimately, making you to lose money
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
Let’s see a few ways to handle products
inventory changes to minimize
SEO issues while maximizing benefits
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When a
product is
released…
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Before creating
a new URL,
establish rules
to validate if
the product
existed in the
past to leverage
its old URL
instead
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If the product is just a variation of an existing one,
that is or can become a non-indexable attribute
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Or if it can target specific queries w/ enough
search volume, worthy to index and rank for
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If so, differentiate them to be specifically relevant
to target and rank for these characteristics
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Enable them to be listed and linked from relevant
indexable category/sub-category & brand pages
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Making sure to that they fit from a topic and
hierarchy perspective, w/ clear navigation path
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These categories/facets should be linked through
their canonical URLs, avoiding URLs parameters
Don’t link to
canonicalized
Category URLs
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Linking and including in the XML sitemaps
the original products URLs too
Don’t link to
canonicalized
Product URLs
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Highlighting further as a latest release, besides
making them easily findable via internal search
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For popular items, launch the product page with a
"coming soon” before the release to promote it
Use the
final product
URL to promote
it previous
launch
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When the
product is
sold…
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Monitor if the products pages rank for too
broad queries, causing cannibalization issues
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They can
negatively affect
not only their
own rankings
but also give a
sub-optimal
experience with
a too specific
page
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This can help identify relevance & differentiation
issues between products & categories
vs
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Or also
linking
mismatch
between the
relevant
category vs.
the product
pages
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As well as to detect a lack of indexable
categories/facets that should target these queries
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Like in this case, since they’re targeted by
indexable internal search results instead
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Facets should become indexable if there are
enough products to feature and search potential
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It should be
about their
supply and
demand
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When the
product goes
out of
stock…
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All internal
links going to
any out of
stock product
pages, as well
as internal
search and
XML sitemap
inclusion should
be eliminated
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If it’s a temporary
status or you’re
unsure, the
product page
should remain
indexable,
allowing users to
be notified when
it comes back,
recommending
related products
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The product page structured data should always
include the latest status, including “out of stock”
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If it’s permanent & the page has backlinks, traffic
or conversions, 301-redirect to parent category
Add a
notification when
redirecting
explaining the out
of stock status
to the user
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Another option is 301-redirecting to a similar
product but can cause chain redirects in long run
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Avoid 302
redirects to
make sure you
pass the old
product page
value while
making sure the
destination
actually works
and is relevant
Don’t do
this
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Don’t show 404s for out of stock products
w/ backlinks, you miss value & is bad experience
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You can use 410 http status for permanent out of
stock pages with no backlinks nor rankings/traffic
Personalize
your error page
to be usable
and relevant
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All internal links, internal search or xml sitemap
inclusion of these URLs should be eliminated
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
Set rules to
tackle these
scenarios
systemically
within your
platform
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Schedule continuous crawls to run & be delivered
automatically to identify remaining issues
Ryte
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Set real time
SEO monitoring
and alerts, to
be warned if
your product
pages change
their status
Little warden & content king
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @oraintiLittle warden & content king
Integrate Web
traffic and rankings
data to alerts
validations,
prioritizing the
ones of those
product pages with
certain minimum
value
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @oraintiZapier, Integromat
Set the alerts to
be directly
delivered to your
communication or
PM system to
facilitate their
validation
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It's about aligning your products
pages optimization to their life cycle
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To miminize crawlability, indexability, rankings
and user search experience issues…
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… while
maximizing their
impact and value
from an organic
traffic and
conversion
perspective
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#productseo at #smxwest by @aleyda from @orainti
* SEO Consultant & Founder at Orainti
* SEO Speaker at +100 Events in +20 countries
* Author “SEO. Las Claves Esenciales.”
* Blogger in Search Engine Land & Search Engine Journal
* Crawling Mondays YouTube Channel Host
* #SEOFOMO Newsletter Wrapper
* European Search Personality of the Year in 2018
I’m Aleyda Solis, SEO Consultant
& Founder at Orainti
www.orainti.com