Does Automated High Quality Content Look Like Low Quality to Search Engines?
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I have 1,000+ pages that all have very similar writing, but different results.
Example:
Nr of days on market
Average sales price
Median sales price
etc etc etcAll the results are very different for each neighborhood. However, as per the above, the wording is similar. The content is very valuable to users. However, I am concerned search engines may see it as low quality content, as wording is identical across all these pages (except the results). Any view on this? Any examples to back up such views?
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Automated means that my my web developers has an algorithm in places that calculates changes in al those statistical fields on an ongoing basis so users always have new up to date data. From the URL I included you can on top bar change neighborhood etc and the statistics will change. Great insight for user but since writing "median price per year", "$ Volume of active listings" etc are same across all pages I wonder how I should expect search engines to treat it.
Any articles or experience to back up ideas highly appreciated.
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Ah, OK. So, when you say "automated" content, what does that mean, exactly? And why is there thousands of pages? Are they all unique somehow? How are you deciding when it is worthwhile to create a new page?
I'd need more insight into your website hierarchy, content strategy and more to give more of an answer.
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http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu-condos/
High quality stats on the page. Many pages like that. Good for user.
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My concern is whether your content is duplicated in ways that offer no additional value to search engines and website visitors. For example, do you have two pages that have pretty much the exact-same text except that one uses the phrase "average sales price" and another has "median sales price" instead?
While I know that "average" and "median" mean two different things, if the only difference in the text of two pages is that one uses "average" and the other uses "median," then I would be very concerned about a Panda hit from Google. Panda hits websites that have duplicated, low-quality, and/or unoriginal content on a large scale.
My question: unless a website has thousands of products or thousands of blog posts, do you really need thousands of pages? Most websites that have thousands of pages have spun content to target one specific keyword on one specific page -- and doing this many, many times over. One of my first "SEO" jobs years ago was to rewrite website pages in different words for exactly this purpose. (I know now that it was a black-hat job.) Today, Google is smart enough to know that a single page can be relevant for multiple keyword variations and themes -- so such actions are not necessary. And rightly so!
My other concern is your use of the word "automated." 99% of the time, anything automated will appear to Google -- and, more importantly, to users -- as spam. Original, authoritative, quality, human-created content is always better. Five pages of this is better than 500 pages of automated text. I would look into consolidating a lot of your pages into a smaller set of completely-original pages that each targets a set of related keyword themes.
Again, I don't know your specific case, so I could be wrong. But your post set off a bunch of warnings. If you need any clarifications, please feel free to reply!
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