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thanks Egol, I appreciate its not exactly a new idea, bu the trouble for this particular company is that the product they sell is very competitive to rank for without hanging off something, and it is all unbranded, so location seems the obvious hook.

The pages are similar, but they do also offer a unique set of products (randomly in reality) for that area.

If it will give a bit of traffic in the short term that is good news, and hopefully the business can then naturally grow in popularity through customers.

thanks for your response.

I wondering whether it would be better to have central page that links to the 1000 locale pages, or to sprinkle a hundread or so links across 10 of the 1000 pages....  1 very compromised page or 10 slightly compromised...

What Would Jesus.. sorry, I mean Google Do?

evening all,

On a recent project for a company selling throughout the UK I created a page for each county in the uk loaded with long tail key words made from "product types + county".  These are working really well, so Im now thinking about making a page for every town in the uk using a similar theory - but this will mean over 1000 similar pages, and a headache of how to link them together without link bloating.

Are these kind of pages ok?  it feels a little spammy as it's so formulaic, but it is genuine.

Thoughts?

Thanks Lucek great answer, i went ahead and did it, it was pretty painless and i used the GWT to verify it was being read.  Its reading the review counts, high and low values but doesnt display them as star ratings - maybe thats only for PPC.  But the rest all works which is great.

I was surprised that an ecomm category page wont return any snippets as it contains multiple product tags (according to GWT), but this now puts my worries to one side about too many key word repetitions on the category pages as ive told google exactly why that is.

Here's to a succesful launch!

Has anyone successfully added the schema.org code to an ecommerce site?

Was it of any benefit to seo?

thanks for the repsonse Mat.  I think you've missed the point though - I'm talking about all the key words in the link (<a href="" )="" titles,="" not="" visible="" text="" on="" the="" page. <="" p=""></a>

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Hi,

Whats the best way to tackle e-commerce category pages?

If you have, say, a category showing 30 pairs of socks, and each of the sock products in the lists has a 'view more' link, a link from the product name and a link from the thumbnail.  Naturally each of those links should be the product name - sprinkled with a slight variation, a preceding 'View more on [product name]' or superseded with the shop name, so you dont end up with complete duplicate link titles, you get the idea.

But you suddenly end up with 90 instances of links with title tags containing 'socks', which ultimately lead to keyword stuffing/cannibalization - especially as you then move to another category with, say, sports socks showing 40 products and therefore 120 link titles also with the word 'socks'

Thought on a postcard please?

Thanks

Tom

I am helping launch a new business venture that sells oak furniture in the UK.  The key product terms are along the lines of;

oak bed
oak dining table
oak chairs

etc

which are very popular search terms.  Im used to being able to hang of local or branded search which arent available in this project.

The domain is around 12 months old, it has few inbound links which we are working on now with an overseas freelancer (keeping an eye on them).  The pages of the site are unique-content rich and the titles and other meta boxes are ticked.

What else would the experts recommend?