Product Tags

[moon-boots]

So Opencart allows the use of product tags (please note, this are NOT meta tags) which I believe are used for when customers want to search for a product using the search function. So one of my tags could be ''star wars socks'', and when a customer types this into the search it brings up every product containing the tag for socks.

This is all good and well, however, these tags appear on the product page itself, right below the Manufacturer/Brand, and above the price. Will Google look kindly on this or could it be considered as keyword stuffing? Or will Google know they're for search and ignore them?

I just need to know whether or not removing them entirely will be a good or bad idea.

[moon-boots]

Hello Bernadette,

Thank you for the information, I was aware of this and have excluded the pages created by the tags in the robots file. I do believe that makes the pages which the tags create null in the eyes of Google (correct?).

Knowing this, what do you make of my original query?

[becole]

spacecollective,  you don't mention whether or not these product tag links, when clicked, end up creating more pages on your site or not. Typically, with a blog, for example, a tag will create a new page, which can lead to duplicate content issues. So, when you're evaluating these tags, check to see if those links are creating new pages on the (which would then be a page that has all the products with the same tag).

If it's creating new pages, then you'll need to check to see if it's creating duplicate content, and how those pages are created (which content appears on the page). If it's low quality content, you'll need to get rid of pages, make sure there's a canonical tag on them, or disallow them from being indexed in the robots.txt file.