Canonical pagination content

[garethjones10]

Hello

We have a large ecommerce site, as you are aware that ecommerce sites has canonical issues, I have read various sources on how best to practice canonical on ecommerce site but I am not sure yet..

My concert is pagination where I am on category product listing page.. the pagination will have all different product not same however the meta data will be same so should I make let's say page 2 or 3 to main category page or keep them as is to index those pages?

Another issue is using filters, where I am on any page and I filter by price or manufacturer basically the page will be same so here It seems issue of duplicate content, so should I canonical to category page only for those result types?

So basically If I let google crawl my pagination content and I only canonical those coming with filter search result that would be best practice? and would google webmaster parameter handling case would be helpful in this scenario ?

Thanks

 

[KateCB]

I think I would post this on the IT & Internet forum rather than e-commerce as this is back end stuff, not e-commerce sales.....you might get a developer on IT&Internet who can help you.

 

[garethjones10]

Okay, Thanks for the suggestion. I will post in that forum.

 

[RhysLucas]

garethjones would you mind sharing a link to your site, so that we can have a look at it?

 

[upsite]

You could implement jQuery on-page pagination such that all of the juicy category content is visible to the search engines, but the user can order, limit, filter and sort on the fly without moving to a separate page with a different URL.

 

[webstore]

Good looking site and a good number of inbound links. Your sitemap could do with some slight improvement eg datestamp, priority - also make sure you are using Google Merchant Center. Also when running your domain as http://domain.com it defaults to http://www.domain.com which is good so not sure what you are meaning with canonical issues. As you know in Google Webmaster Tools you can specify whether you want to be indexed as none or www. or both.