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Why would it not count? Many people have good reasons not to index specific pages and after all, the cached page is just a snapshot from the last crawl is it not?

My dilemma

For example: If I have a website ranking at number 11 for (Keyword) and there is a site named www.(Keyword).com ranking at number 12 for (Keyword), if I were to buy this site and redirect to my own site, would this be at all beneficial?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

6 duplicate page titles seems a relatively small amount. Duplicates are an issue in that search engines have to decide which page to rank. Applying the canonical link element can help with duplicate page titles sometimes, but if you are optimizing for different keywords on each page i do not think Google penalises heavily for this (I could be wrong) it just makes it harder for them to know which page to rank. If you are certain of the keywords you wish to rank for (and show this) throughout each page individually I do not think you should have a problem with your page titles.

it does, thank you

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Quick question: Is it better to have your jpg name and alt text slightly different to your keywords for that particular page, or is it better to have them slightly differently? At the minute I'm doing them all with a variation on the keyphrase I want to optimize for (long tail and all that...).

Any input much appreciated!

All of our products have around 3-4 lines of individual text, as do all the categories. would you suggest that we start introducing individual text (where it is currently the same - see above) for the best selling products and see if it brings any positive change?

We're an online glasses retailer, so the set text for each product is the details of our standard lens option and extras that come as standard with each product e.g. cases and cloths. With almost 400 products I think it would be near impossible to have a different description for essentially the same feature with each pair of glasses. I actually hadn't considered focusing entirely on the categories as I felt optimizing each page individually gave us a better chance of coming up more often and higher in search.

Thanks for that, I can't remove it completely or make the text bespoke to each page (as much as I'd like to!), so replacing it with an image seems the best approach. Good point about the content left on the page, I'll be sure to add more fresh, individual content to each product page. Now I just need to figure out the blog issue!

Hi all,

I have an ecommerce site which has a standard block of text on 98% of the product pages. The site also has a blog. Because these cause duplicate content and duplicate title issues respectively, how can I ever get around this? Would having the standard text on the product pages displayed as an image help? And how can I stop the blog being listed as duplicate titles without a nofollow? We already have the canonical attribute applied to some areas where this is appropriate e.g. blog and product categories.

Thanks for your help

Thank you!

6 duplicate page titles seems a relatively small amount. Duplicates are an issue in that search engines have to decide which page to rank. Applying the canonical link element can help with duplicate page titles sometimes, but if you are optimizing for different keywords on each page i do not think Google penalises heavily for this (I could be wrong) it just makes it harder for them to know which page to rank. If you are certain of the keywords you wish to rank for (and show this) throughout each page individually I do not think you should have a problem with your page titles.