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Thank You very much, Philipp. We will change our website according to your suggestions

Have a great week! Johan

Hi, Philipp!

Thank You for the response. Visitors currently do not see these options anyway, they are only in the system because of our custom pricing quote system.

I think my main question is, should we hide these pages from google or should we list them in our sitemap. Our site visitors will never see these pages, but they do exist. We can make them noindex, if google may not look well at them.

Hi,

We are selling log houses on our website. Every log house is listed as a "product", and this "product" consists of many separate parts, that are technically also products. For example a log house product consists of doors, windows, roof - and all these parts are technically also products, having their own content pages.

The question is - Should we let google index these detail pages, or should we list them as noindex?

These pages have no content, only the headline, which are great for long-tail SEO. We are probably the only manufacturer in the world who has a separate page for "log house wood beam 400x400mm". But otherwise these pages are empty.

My question is - what should we do? Should we let google index them all (we have over 3600 of them) and maybe try to insert an automatic FAQ section to every one of them to put more content on the page?

Or will 3600 low-content pages hurt our rankings? Otherwise we are ranking quite well.

Thanks, Johan

Hi, Tom!

Thanks for the quick response - Yes we have implemented the 301 regardless, so I hope we will see our rankings improve again They actually already have, I checked GA and organic traffic has gone up 100% in the last week, when compared to the previous week. So something must be happening

Thank You,

Johan

Hi,

When pushing our new site live, most of the 301 redirections got done too late for several reasons. Understandably, our site rankings in google have taken a hit now.

So far we have just tried to perfectly optimize the pages that used to rank well (They weren't even optimized before and were still ranking) , to get our positions back.

But does anyone have an idea about what else we could do? Is there a recommended "action plan" when someone is late with their 301 redirections?

Hi,

We wish to start ranking on a specific keyword ("log house prices" in italian). We have two options on what pages we should optimize for this keyword:

1. A long content page (1000+ words with images)
2. Log houses category page, optimized for the keyword (we have 50+ houses on this page, together with a short price summary).

I would think that we have better chances with ranking with option nr.2 , but then we can't use that page for ranking with a more short-tail keyword (like "log houses").

What would you suggest? Is there maybe a third option for this?