Repetition of Product Names considered Spamming?
-
We have long lists of products are displayed on individual web pages ... with the only variations being in product dimensions and prices.
Could the Search Engines consider these lengthy lists of products for sale to be attempted spamming efforts?
(Example: http://www.just-insulation.com/overview_of_celotex_product_buy_cheapest.html)
Thank you.
-
Yes I would think Google would consider it spamming - there are wat too many instances of Celotex in the copy.
I would look for places to remove instances of Celotex where not needed.
|
Celotex TB4012
|
1.2x2.4 = 2.88m²
|
12
|
0.50
|
2.00
|
0.50
|
1.44
Celotex TB4020
|
1.2x2.4 = 2.88m²
|
20
|
0.90
|
1.11
|
0.72
|
2.07
Celotex TB4025
|
1.2x2.4 = 2.88m²
|
25
|
1.10
|
0.91
|
0.85
|
2.45
Celotex CW4025
|
20x0.45x1.2 = 10.8m²
|
25
|
1.10
|
0.91
|
0.85
|
9.18
Celotex FR5025
|
16x1.2x2.4 = 46.08m²
|
25
|
1.10
|
0.91
|
1.00
|
46.08
Celotex PL4025
|
26x1.2x2.4 = 74.88m²
|
37.5
|
1.20
|
0.87
|
9.06
|
678.41
Celotex TB4030
|
1.2x2.4 = 2.88m²
|
30
|
1.35
|
0.74
|
0.98
|
2.82 ETC
Celotex FR5030
|
?x1.2x2.4 = m²
|
30
|
1.35
|
0.00
|
1.16
|
0.00
Celotex TB4035
|
1.2x2.4 = 2.88m²
|
35
|
1.55
|
0.65
|
1.11
|
3.20
Celotex FR5035
|
?x1.2x2.4 = m²
|
35
|
1.55
|
0.00
|
1.32
|
0.00
Celotex TB4040
|
1.2x2.4 = 2.88m²
|
40
|
1.80
|
0.56
|
1.26
|
3.63
Celotex CW4040
|
12x0.45x1.2 = 6.48m²
|
40
|
1.80
|
0.56
|
1.26
|
8.16
Celotex CG5000
|
12x0.45x1.2 = 6.48m²
|
40
|
1.80
|
0.56
|
1.48
|
9.59
Celotex FR5040
|
?x1.2x2.4 = m²
|
40
|
1.80
|
0.00
|
1.48
|
0.00
Celotex CG5000
|
0x0.45x1.2 = 0m²
|
90
|
1.85
|
0.54
|
2.55
|
0.00
Celotex EL3050
|
x0.6x1.2 = 1.44m²
|
50
|
1.85
|
0.54
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
Also way too many instances in the copy, less is more with new Google algorithms.
Celotex have rebranded their improved products the '4000' series. For example, Celotex GA3000 becomes Celotex GA4000 and Celotex XR3150 changes to Celotex XR4150. These changes reflects Celotex's improvement in product performance, and highlights the improved thermal performance of the boards.
Title and meta descriptions are too long
<title>Celotex Rigid PIR Insulation Boards GA4000, TB4000, XR4000, CG5000, CW4000, EL3000, FF4000, FR5000, PL4000, SW3000, PL4000, TA3000, TC3000 and TD4000\. All available from Just Insulation, UKtitle> <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">Description</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">Buy your Celotex insulation boards online at the very best prices, sa fely and securely. Celotex high performance polyisocyanurate (PIR) boards offer an unrivalled range of thic knesses from 12mm – 200mm with products suitable for pitched and flat roofs, walls, cavityies, and floors ... along with a Class O fire rated product range for when project specifications demand enhanced fire performance.</a>" />
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Product Listings - is it worth indexing the whole product catalogue?
I'm working on a site that has around 500 product listings. This is for a rental company without any sort of ecommerce platform, so, there's no prices, no adding a product to a cart, etc. Also, there are no different sizing / color options for each product, so each product is the canonical version. After some restructuring, we're starting to see a lot of 404s and just some general mess. I have a couple of thoughts. My first is to just noindex each product. We hardly get any direct traffic to an individual product page, and if they land anywhere related to products, it's usually a category page. If I noindex the products, I don't have to worry about the 404s. My second is to implement the rel=canonical tag on each product to correspond to its primary category. While this is sort of liberal use of the canonical tag, I'm thinking that it could help drive more organic traffic to the category pages. Does anyone have any insight or thoughts on this? Thank you very much!
Technical SEO | | Savage-Solutions0 -
My 'complete guide' is cannibalising my main product page and hurting rankings
Hi everyone, I have a main page for my blepharoplasty surgical product that I want to rank. It's a pretty in-depth summary for patients to read all about the treatment and look at before and after pictures and there's calls to action in there. It works great and is getting lots of conversions. But I also have a 'complete guide' PDF which is for patients who are really interested in discovering all the technicalities of their eye-lift procedure including medical research, clinical stuff and risks. Now my main page is at position 4 and the complete guide is right below it in 5. So I tried to consolidate by adding the complete guide as a download on the main page. I've looked into rel canonical but don't think it's appropriate here as they are not technically 'duplicates' because they serve different purposes. Then I thought of adding a meta noindex but was not sure whether this was the right thing to do either. My report doesn't get any clicks from the serps, people visit it from the main page. I saw in Wordpress that there's options for the link, one says 'link to media file', 'custom URL' and 'attachment'. I've got the custom URL selected at the moment. There's also a box for 'link rel' which i figure is where I'd put the noindex. If that's the right thing to do, what should go in that box? Thanks.
Technical SEO | | Smileworks_Liverpool0 -
Help: domain name change and Google News
Hi. I work for a regional news source, and our (separate) Spanish-language news publication recently changed its domain name. The publication lost its Google News inclusion. Most of their traffic came from Google News, so traffic tanked. They're trying to get back in. They reapplied but didn't get approved. They're now in the 30-day waiting period to reapply again. The website is run by a third-party company, which handled the domain name change in April (2015). That company has been running their site for a couple of years. Our in-house devs' hands are tied on helping, because we (at the mother company) don't manage their site. This third party has not been responsive. The Spanish pub folks have reached out to me to help them prepare for Round 2 of reapplication. I'm the mothership in-house SEO, but I've never experienced this situation before. Because everything seems to be in order besides the ham-handed changes, my best advice to them so far is: You'll have to wait until Google gets to know you again, unfortunately. Does that sound right? Any pointers out there for bringing their best possible A-game to the next round?
Technical SEO | | christyrobinson1 -
Delete indexed spam pages
Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone had this same situation, or may know of a solution. One of our sites was recently pharmahacked 😞 We found an entire pharmaceutical site in one of the folder of our site. We were able to delete it, but now Google is showing us on not found error for those pages we deleted. First, I guess the question is will this harm us? If so, anyway we can fix this? Obliviously we don't want to do a 303 redirect for spam pages. Thanks!
Technical SEO | | Bridge_Education_Group0 -
Product reviews markup
Hi, I'm currently having issues with some of the user reviews on product pages. Can you spot any issues in the reviews? Thanks
Technical SEO | | pikka0 -
Does removing product listings help raise SERP's on other pages?
Does removing content ever make sense? We have out of stock products that are left on the site (in an out of stock section) specifically for SEO value, but I am not sure how to approach the problem from a bottom line conversion stand point. Do we leave out of stock products and hope that they turn into a conversion rate via cross selling, or do out of stock products lower the value of other pages by "stealing" link juice and pagerank from the rest of the site? (and effectively driving interest away) What is your perspective? Do you believe that any content that is related or semi-related to your main focus is beneficial, or does it only make sense to have strong content that has a higher rate of conversion and overall site engagement?
Technical SEO | | 13375auc30 -
Product ratings causing 302 redirect problem
I am working on an ecommerce site and my crawl report came back with 7000+ 302 redirects and maxed out at 10,000 pages because of all the redirects. The site really only has maybe 1500 pages (dynamic content aside). After looking into it a little more I see it is because of the product rating system. They have a star rating system that kinda looks like amazons. The only problem is that each star is a link to a dynamic address that records the vote and then 302's back to the original page the vote was cast from. So virtually every page on this site links out anywhere from 15 to 45 times and 302's back to itself, losing virtually all of its PR. Am I correct in that assumption or am I missing something? I don't see the links being blocked by robots.txt or noindex, nofollowed. Also it is an anonymous rating system where a rating can be cast from any category page displaying a product or any product page. To make matters worse every page links to a printable version which duplicates the issue by repeating the whole thing over again. So assuming I am correct that is site has a major PR leak on virtually every page, what is the best recommendation to fix this. 1. Block all of those links in robots.txt, 2. no index, nofollow these links or 3. put the rating system behind a submit button or disallow anon ratings 4. something else??? Looking at their product ratings on the site virtually everything is between 2-3 starts out of 5 and has about the same number of votes except less votes on deeper pages. I dont believe this is real at all since this site gets almost no traffic and maybe 1 sale a week, there is no way that any product has been rated 50 times. I think the crawler is voting as it crawls and doing it 5 times for every product which is why everything is rated 2.5 out of 5. This is an x-cart site in case anyone cares. Any suggestions?
Technical SEO | | BlinkWeb0 -
Multiple domain names with similar content
Hi, we've got multiple domains that point to the same website and same content. The only difference is the currency and some text, you could say only about 5% difference in each domain's content: http://www.redwrappings.com.au/
Technical SEO | | Essentia
http://www.redwrappings.com/ Will Google penalise us for having 95% similar content for each domain (they sell the same products but in different currencies)? We shoudn't really put canonical link, should we? Because 5% of the content is different, which means they are not identical. What would be the best solution if this is a problem? Thanks0