Category url with resultsperpage loop
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Hi there,
We upgraded our webshop last weekend and our moz crawl on monday found a lot of errors we are trying to fix. I am having some communication problems with our webmaster so I need a little help.
We have extremely long category pages url, does anyone have a guess which kind of mistake our webmaster could make:
https://site-name.pl/category-name?page=3?resultsPerPage=53?resultsPerPage=53 ....And it keeps on repeating the string ?resultsPerPage=53 exactly 451 times as if there was some kind of loop.
Thanks in advance for any kind of hint
Kind regards,
Isabelle -
@terentyev thank you, that's what we did and the new crawl came out clean.
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@isabelledylag I suggest not to fix it, but get rid of this troublesome 'resultsPerPage' parameter completely. Ideally, you should have all category pages served and linked internally without parameters. Also, give your web developer a task to set up default number of items per page, and omit the parameter for the default values.
Another improvement you can make is ask your webmaster to shorten the "page" parameter into "p".
What you have to keep in mind is that all your paginated versions should have proper canonical tag pointing to the first page.
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Ok it's great to see such an update, We thought this update will definitely help YTBPals to provide 1000 Free YouTube Subscribers to its all users instantly.
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