Every time I change quantity or a matrix option on a SCS product page, it adds an annoying query string parameter to the page, which will cause search engine indexing problems. How do I turn this off?

How exactly is it causing indexing problems?

by creating duplicate content... search engines see every unique URL as different and will try to index it by default. https://www.hallaminternet.com/avoiding-the-seo-pitfalls-of-url-parameters/ here's google's article on parameterized duplicate content: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080548?hl=en I'm also surprised to not see a canonical URL tag in the item detail page... why isn't that there by default?

I'm also surprised to not see a canonical URL tag in the item detail page... why isn't that there by default?

That was my question (in disguise). We include canonical tags by default

here is a SCS PDP page on one our customer's sites - there's no canonical https://www.newoconnect.com/T-Post?quantity=1&color=Black although that item is part of an item collection that requires a login (no visibility for anon users), and the publically viewable items have the canonical tag. It's kind of weird that nothing loads at all on the PDPs that require a login to see, it would be nice to have a more graceful way of handling that situation (like a reminder to login)

OK so when I visit that page I should expect to see nothing?

at first I didn't realize that it only applied to PDPs in that PCV... I guess the SEO doesn't matter if search engines can't see the pages anyway. So my question has morphed into wondering if there's a better way to handle a user who opens a bookmark after being logged out and sees a blank page with no message letting them know that they need to be logged in so they can see the content

Ah, that's interesting.

correct

OK, let me see if I can find more information. I am surprised if that's the case

I'll submit a case, do you know what the functionality SHOULD be when trying to access a PDP page that doesn't include not logged in users?

Honestly, my guess is that this isn't a bug per se but rather not something included in the feature. If you have a suggestion for what should happen, include it in the ticket. And let me know the ticket number so I can highlight it to the PM who owns this

I think the best case scenario would be to show the rest of the page template - header/footer/etc, and display a customizable message where the PDP content should be. There should be different messages for each situation - logged in but not in the right group, not logged in, etc. The case # is 4038667 Thanks for your help!