Curious Keyword Tags Question...
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In 2012, we got hit with something... I have always assumed Panda...
We have hundreds of thousands of products on our site. Prior to the traffic drop, our old site design listed a small number of keywords tags on the product pages.
About 10 or so...
After the site re-design, we allowed all of the keyword tags to appear on these product pages and also linked them to
our search results pages.
I know that one thing this did is cause a lot of these Search Results pages to be indexed.
But our traffic has been constantly declining since then... I wonder what would happen if I just went back to the old with a smaller number of keywords listed and not linked?
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Craig
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If this was my site, I would stop linking to tag pages and search results pages. I would also block them from being indexed.
It is very possible that the search results pages are causing issues. Google said back in 2007...
"Typically, web search results don’t add value to users, and since our
core goal is to provide the best search results possible, we generally
exclude search results from our web search index. "Matt Cutts comments about it here and on a similar subject here.
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