Here is a list of technical SEO tactics (HTTP/HTTPS, Breadcrumb, Schema, Pagination, etc) that needs to be checked and implemented (if applicable) for e-commerce sites.
In addition to the security offered by HTTPS, there are various additional benefits especially to the e-commerce clients as a result of the obvious conversion benefits of having an extended validation SSL certificate. In this case, there is no need for canonicalization.
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Breadcrumb Implementation
You can usually find breadcrumbs in websites in order to help both search engines and users where a large amount of content is organized in a hierarchical manner. Get more information here: https://schema.org/BreadcrumbList
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Schema
Use Schema.org to give your content more prominence in search engine results. Using schema markup codes, we can highlight certain pieces of information (like the name and description of a product, price, customer reviews and ratings) for search engines, telling them what the information means.
Putting a search box to your e-commerce websites, let the visitors look for something specific – which is great. Top it off with a button that reads “Search” or “Find” and include some stylized arrows (indicating motion), and you’re off to a great start.
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404 Pages
404 Pages are much occasional in the e-commerce sites, because if the product is not available anymore and the page is deleted from the site, the user might definitely receive a 404 page. The best way to overcome from such this is a 301 redirect to that particular unavailable product. You can use these options for your 404 page:
Search Box
Bestselling Items
Category List Items
A Coupon Code or Special Offers
Apology Text or Any Other Message.
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Pagination
Pagination in e-commerce sites mainly occurs to deal with product and category listing pages to avoid the website content over the span of multiple pages. This will avoid any issues of losing out on website authority and its ranking in search engines.
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Faceted Navigation
Faceted navigation is a popular technique used by e-commerce sites to filter products by color or price range. These filtering options are popular and useful for the users to narrow their searches. Irrespective of this, it creates many combinations of URLs with duplicate content with a new and unique URL string. So, we need to properly use rel=”canonical” tags to the canonical page version of the category / product list to avoid indexing of the dynamically generated URLs from search engines.
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