I am trying to customize SEO URL slugs and encountered an issue
When I use variable meta-title in the url template, it works only for main products, not for variants, even if there is meta title inheritance enabled. But even when I check html of the variant page, meta title is not there. I don't know if you made it on purpose or it is a bug, but it means: I cannot use meta title variable for variants when creating a url.
This lead to my other thought: let's turn Use single canonical URL for all variants - because of course we do not want google to mark it as duplicates when we are using inheritance for all the descriptions and stuff. But when I turn it on, you force me to pick one of the variants. But I don't logically want it to be one of the variants, i want it to be main product. That leads me to another problem that I tried to solve with you: main product cant have the same product number as variant. So I cannot create variant as main product - so I cannot use it as main product for canonical URL. BUT! I think you would tell me: change storefront presentation, lets go to Product-Variants-Storefront presentation-Product lsitings and instead of Main product you could pick one variant and go with it. But I don't want to do it, because if I choose it as "Main product" in the storefront it is more beneficial since it shows, that there are more variants and price starts at.... You know what I mean? I don't want the specific size of the product be as main variant, you actually told me not to, since you require variant and main product to have different product number.
This is actually really frustrating. Because I want it (as it should be):
- main product - main URL - it is main product page that I want to be crawled by search engines
- variants - url with whatever slug added to the main product URL, but I don't want Google to crawl it.
Sounds pretty easy, right? And it even works like that, just not in case if I want to use MetaTitle as a slug.
You give me these:
- main product - main URL (i want to use meta title for that and you allow it since it is in the list of supported variants)
- variant - can't use meta title - it makes it different url, which is ugly and not practical
- seo canonical - can use only variant, not meta title, so basically I have many duplicate pages and it takes us down from Google.