Question on Canonical To Avoid Duplicate Content with Google
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The SomniGel Sapphier has multiple categories.
Product: SomniGel Sapphier
Primary: gel-infused
Others: hybrid, latex, pocketed-spring, etc.The default (primary) URL is /mattresses/gel-infused/somnigel-sapphire/
However, in testing this as an end-user, I visit the site and click mattresses (parent): /mattresses/
Then hybrids (secondary category), the URL is now: /mattresses/hybrid/
Then I click the Somni-gel Sapphire (product), the URL is now: /mattresses/gel-infused/somnigel-sapphire/
As you can see, hybrid in the category URL changed to gel-infused, when we really want it to be: /mattresses/hybrid/somnigel-sapphire/
We want to avoid Google penalizing us for duplicate content since it’s one product, yet we want both URL’s….
Ultimately we need 2 things:
We want to use canonical URL’s so that:
1) the URL structure shows the correct category we select as a user: /mattresses/hybrids/somnigel-sapphire/
2) we avoid any duplicate content with Google so it’s “masked” to the URL but in reality its one page in the background.
Any guidance is welcome. I am also attaching the
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