Google has updated the rich results support page to include information on how to use them for different product variants with unique URLs. For example, if you have a page for a specific model of a t-shirt, where you sell it in black, green, yellow and red colors, then the page won’t be displayed in the advanced results, because this case requires separate landing pages for each variant (in our case - colors) of goods.
Google detailed how rich results work for different product options, and from now on the full recommendation from the corporation is as follows: « Use markup for a specific product, not a category or list of products. For example, «shoes in our shop» isn’t a specific product. Currently, product rich results only support pages that focus on a single product. This includes product variants where each product variant has a distinct URL. We recommend focusing on adding markup to product pages instead of pages that list products or a category of products».
«Product variant» should be understood as each combination of its attributes. Thus, this update will help structure URLs for products if they come in multiple sizes or colors. At the same time, it needs to remember the limitation of including several variants of the product on one page, when they have the same URL:
➤ the page won’t be available for rich search results, because only pages with a single product, which variants are indicated by Google as different products, have this feature.
For creating unique URLs for each product variant, it’s recommended to use query parameters (for example, /t-shirt?color=yellow) and path segments (for example, /t-shirt/yellow). In order for the search engine to better understand the relations between product variants, Google advises choosing the URL of one variant as the canonical URL of the entire product. If you use additional query parameters to define variants, choose URLs without query parameters as the canonical URL. For example, if the value of the query parameter «color» by default is «green», then:
➤ the canonical URL for all t-shirt variants will be /t-shirt.
➤ for a green t-shirt you can use /t-shirt (instead of /t-shirt?color=green).
➤ for t-shirts of other colors, such as red, you can use /t-shirt?color=red.
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