What is the value of Google Crawling Dynamic URLS with NO SEO

[ingageseo]

Hi All

I am Working on travel site for client where there are 1000's of product listing pages that are dynamically created.  These pages are not SEO optimised and are just lists of products with no content other than the product details. There are no meta tags for title and description on the listings pages.  You then click Find Out more  to go to the full product details.  There is no way to SEO these Dynamic pages

This main product details has no content other than details and  now meta tags.

To help increase my google rankings for the rest of the site which is search optimised would it be better to block google from indexing these pages.

Are these pages hurting my ability to improve rankings if my SEO of the content pages has been done to a good level with good unique Titles, descriptions and useful content

thanks In advance

John

[ingageseo]

Thank Tim. The search part of the site integrates from a 3rd party so it is hard to get them to do anything. bUt as you say  if it is not hurting then all ok

[RepLoc_Tim]

To answer your last question first, this should not hurt your main content pages that you have optimized.

Without knowing how the site is set-up, there is still benefit in having these dynamically created pages, especially since they contain product details.  Without meta data, the content ("details" you mention) can still be read by the crawlers and the theme can still be determined.  Assuming there are still navigation links back to your main optimized content pages and that they are related, there can be some benefit passed (assuming they are thematically congruent).  So in this situation, the benefit outweighs the risk (assuming I have understood the situation correctly), so I would not block the dynamically created pages.

I would still work with the developer to find a way to push the product name and details to the meta data for the dynamically created pages.