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Thanks for the reply. The city-state content wouldn't be driven by the URL, it would be driven by the city-state that the user searched for. ie if the person searched for <product><city><state>I would want our /product/ page to show up, and show them content in their local city state.</state></city></product>
To avoid dupe content, we are moving away from a model where we have 30,000 pages, each with a separate URL that looks like /prices/<product-name>/<city><state>, often with dupe content because the product overlaps from city to city, and it's hard to keep 30,000 pages unique, where sometimes the only distinction is the price & the city/state.</state></city></product-name>
We are moving to a model with around 300 unique pages, where some of the info that used to be in the url will move to the page itself (headers, etc.) to cut down on dupe content on those unique 300 pages.
My question is this. If we have 300 unique-content pages with unique URL's, and we then put some dynamic info (year, city, state) into the page itself, will Google index this dynamic content?
The question behind this one is, how do we continue to rank for searches for that product in the city-state being searched without having that info in the URL?
Any best practices we should know about?
Thanks for getting back to me!
Even if you do the dynamic meta data, that does not sound like a lot of duplication can be avoided between the 30,000 city/state pages.
That's the reason we are considering this new strategy, where we have essentially 300 unique pages, but we dynamically generate the city/state.
Is the content on these pages unique ? I mean the set of products returned, are they just unique collections or what ?
The content is unique, to a point. The pricing varies by region, but the actual products are the same.
You said these pages are showing up as duplicate content ? Where are they showing as duplicate content ?
They are showing up as dupe content on the seomoz report. Not sure if that's what you mean?
Do your stronger pages, homepage, category pages rank for your head keywords ? Do they rank very very well ?
Not sure what you're asking exactly. How do I find out what my head keywords are?
It really depends upon the overall domain authority and what other stuff is going on your website.
Over PR is about a 5 right now.
nevermind i think i fixed it. Im "redirect attachment url to parent"
Thanks for the response.
So why is the linked image creating a duplicate content url? How do I fix this?
We have about 30,000 pages that are variations of "<product-type>prices/<type-of-thing>/<city><state "<="" p=""></state></city></type-of-thing></product-type>
These pages are bringing us lots of free conversions because when somebody searches for this exact phrase for their city/state, they are pretty low-funnel.
The problem that we are running into is that the pages are showing up as dupe content.
One solution we were discussing is to 301-redirect or canonical all the city-state pages back to jus tthe "<type of="" thing="">" level, and then create really solid unique content for the few hundred pages we would have at that point.</type>
My concern is this. I still want to rank for the city-state because as I look through our best-converting search-terms, they nearly always have the city-state in the search term, so the search is some variation of " <product-type><type of="" thing=""><city><state>"</state></city></type></product-type>
One thing we thought about doing is dynamically changing the meta-data & headers to add the city-state info there.
Are there other potential solutions to this?
In an effort to clean up my blog content I noticed that I have a lot of posts getting tagged for duplicate content.
It looks like ...
http://carwoo.com/blog/october-sales-robust-stateside-european-outlook-poor-for-ford
Any thoughts on how and why this would be happening?