Does having more products in a category than others help with ranking that page with a particular keyword like iphone cases. We have thousands of products and wondered if it would hellp these all being on the website.
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does having more products in a category than other websites help with ranking that page with a particular keyword like iphone cases. We have thousands of products and wondered if it would help these all being on the website.
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I do not think the number of products has any effect. Unless you just had a few products and customers get on the site, don't think you have enough selection and leave right away. Google will take a high bounce rate into consideration.
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we used to be not so long ago number one on google for iphone cases iphone 4 cases etc but recently we have dropped. We have less products now than we used to so wondered if this has had an effect
i also noticed a lot of my competitors dont use the iphone keywords in there titles the use blue case etc maybe not to have duplicate content?
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I would try to explain the design in the product description a little, at least emphasize the color and/or texture, same with the meta title and meta description of each product. But Maybe someone else can weigh in on how important they think this will be before you get to work on that many products.
What keywords are you going after? Do you realize how competitive a keyword like i-phone cases will be?
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yes this is the bit i dont understand we have the same descriptions but all the products are different designs and different titles but the are all cases just different design cases. is this duplicate content
I just looked at how zazzle and other rank really well and they have thousands of products
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I do not think that having more products in a category than your competitors will help with SEO at all.
In fact, you will have to be even more careful making sure each of these products do not have duplicate content, titles, and descriptions, the more similar products you have, the harder that can be.
I would also be careful if you have optimized the category and your product list is multiple pages long. Some e-commerce platforms will repeat the optimized category content on each page. I know SEO Moz will consider that duplicate content and give you errors, however I'm not sure how seriously Google really take it. To avoid that problem I usually allow more products to display on each page.
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