May 11
Swatches improvement, google indexing, ease of use
1) On product archive when swatches filter variation selected, it should bring the exact selected variation color product images
- Ease of use for customer, as he gets exact result expected of the filter, to show exactly what he filtered for.
2) when in product archive variation is selected, then clicked to product page, it should be the same variation, not the default where customer needs to select variation again in product page
- Customer gets exactly what he clicked for, much more convenient and streamlined process.
3) variations need to have url parameters ( attribute_pa_color=yellow&attribute_pa_size=m) for google to understand the content and properly index, preferably a href tag because js generated ajax could be troublesome, so perhaps update page via ajax but have href tag? Coincidently when products are added to basket or wishlist, it has these parameters generated. These URL parameters needs to be updated on product page upon selected variation in URL BAR.
- directly connected to filter ability to bring the exact variation because it looks for those url parameters.
- google indexing improvement and better understanding of the website structure
- Customers can copy the URL and share it, and it brings to the exact variation he intended to show
4) Search results. Currently if you search green and it has three sizes, LIVE search results shows three identical products with different prices ( according to size attribute price change) but it does not say about size difference, so it can be confusing to customers. When you press enter to go to search page, it has appended the name of product and put at the end of product name size attributes - S, M, L. So perhaps live search results should do the same?
Thank you for your attention! I believe these improvements are crucial and as I seen no others have correctly implemented these markups, it would be a huge advantage for all customer searching for a working theme with variation swatches and great improvement for the ones already using ( for existing users it should probably be opt-in option to not upset their status quo with the way their permalinks, sitemaps, and google index is done )
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