Technical resource library
Guides and practical resources
Editorial preview only. These guides are unfinished and not approved for public indexing.
Choose the specific decision or issue you are working on. Each guide sets out what to inspect, how to test it, and which evidence should inform the next action.
Original first-party utility · editorial preview
Faceted URL combination calculator
Model how catalogue attributes can multiply URL combinations, then choose real crawl samples to investigate.
Diagnose a problem
- Category canonical disagreements: a diagnostic — Help a catalogue owner resolve discrepancies between declared canonicals and the category URLs their store actually links to.
Technical workflow guides
- BigCommerce category hierarchy: an audit method — Help a catalogue owner establish which category paths answer distinct buying questions before restructuring URLs.
- Discontinued products: choose the right response — Help merchants choose a trustworthy retired-product response without automatically redirecting every missing page to a category home.
- Product variant URLs: one page or several? — Help catalogue managers choose a variant URL and markup approach that matches what the shopper can directly view and purchase.
- Which catalogue filters should Google crawl? — Help an e-commerce director decide which catalogue filters create a new buyer journey and which merely create another crawlable URL.
- Catalogue pagination: can Google reach page two? — Give a catalogue owner a repeatable way to test whether later product listing pages expose distinct items through crawlable links.
- Faceted URLs: diagnose a catalogue crawl trap — Help a catalogue engineering lead separate shopper filter functionality from low-value URL combinations that drain crawling.