Duplicate Product Descriptions

[Willinabox]

Hey Guys,

I'm new to the ecom game and im developing a new ecommerce retail rug store. I'm running into an issue with duplicate descriptions.

So lets say I have 8 products at 30 different sizes. I'm not sure whether to do 30 separate products or have a sizing option for each of the products with the option to "choose a size"

My issue is then the consumer cannot search by rug size. What do you guys think?

[realityhack]

You may be able to do both.
Check into what software is available off the shelf. This is something any clothing retailer would run into as well. Using a canonical tag you may be able to set the default size on a page while keeping one page per product and letting people search by size.

[sbsts]

You may be able to do both.
Check into what software is available off the shelf. This is something any clothing retailer would run into as well. Using a canonical tag you may be able to set the default size on a page while keeping one page per product and letting people search by size.

I agree. You want a user friendly site, and if you look at other retail sites, sizes are listed under just 1 listing and not separately.

[Doodled]

The key here is that users should be able to search by size, say from the front page ... "show me all the rugs you have which are 3' x 3'" type of thing or even between size X and size Y or by square footage.

The best approach is to organise your shop so that each rug is one product where the user selects the size on the product page.

Then it's a matter of programming a query into the shopping cart that can do the search properly because the info is all there in the database.