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Firstly, you might want to create landing pages with better URL's for certain manufactures like:

www.example.com/classifieds/honda-bikes/
www.example.com/classifieds/kawasaki-bikes/

And no-index 0 result pages programatically.

Usually classified sites have a lot of filters to narrow down, you should definitely no index them and also add those filtered pages to block list via robots.txt. You don't want google crawler to start going in loops and instead want to conserve it to top level pages which user search and would find valuable once they land on it.

I run a classified site and have different opinion:

• Submit your individual classified listing pages to site map. Title and descriptions of each classifieds are different and can help you bring long-tail traffic.
• Submit your individual classified listing images in site map, it will help you bring traffic through image search.
• Google and everyone else strong recommends to use rel=next and rel=prev rather then putting canonical to the first page. Also don't use both of them together because you will be confusing google. If you have to put canonical then do a canonical to the page minus anyother sort parameters so canonical on page 2 will be pointing to page minus all sort parameters, etc.

Hope it helps !

In a classified site, people usually search for the same item with different keywords which are often very close to each other and point to same set of results: e.g.

honda civic for sale
used honda civic for sale
civic for sale
used civic for sale
used civic

All the above keywords should actually lead to same results i.e honda civic for sale. Our competitor is creating a page for each one of these

www.sitename.com/q/honda-civic-for-sale/
www.sitename.com/q/used-honda-civic-for-sale/
... and so on

Basically they create a page for each high traffic keyword they encounter where as we have very structure search.

How to compete with that ? They are ranking on all these long tail keywords because of separate landing pages though most of the pages are duplicate of each other. 98% same content (all are showing honda civics)

Should we go that route OR optimize our single page focusing on keyword with highest traffic and hope google will rank us for the related keywords as well ?

Hi do you need to point canonical from a subpage to main page if you have already marked a no index on the subpage, like when google is not indexing it so do we need canonicals now as is it passing any juice?

Although Google and Bing have recommended that the same URL be used for serving desktop and mobile websites, portals like airbnb are using different URLS to serve mobile and web users.

Does anyone know why this is being done even though it is not GOOD for SEO?

Our automobile portal is the leading in Pakistan and we are there for almost 10 years now, we already rank in top 3 keywords ( top 1 on most of them )  but our search traffic has become stagnant, we have tried to optimize for keywords  that google search tool show has more traffic and we have gained ranking in most of them but still our search traffic isnt showing any much increase.

Is it possible that we have already got all the juice and there arent much people who are searching auto related keywords or what can we do to increase organic traffic? Work on long tail keywords? Whats next?

We are getting different titles in Search Engine Result Page, where PakWheels: is added to the actual title of page. Your expert opinion is highly appreciated. What can be the possible reason of "PakWheels:" appearing. This is a case for only home page of website.

Search query 'cars in pakistan' shows 3rd result with title

Pakwheels: Cars, Used Cars, New Cars, Latest Car Prices & News ...

Whereas the actual title of page is without 'PakWheels:'

At PakWheels.com we have URLs being generated in upper and lower cases. For example following URLs serve pages:

http://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/search/-/mk_Toyota/

http://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/search/-/mk_toyota/

Both show same content. Similarly in following four cases:

http://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/search/-/mk_Toyota/md_corolla/

http://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/search/-/mk_Toyota/md_Corolla/

http://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/search/-/mk_toyota/md_Corolla/

http://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/search/-/mk_toyota/md_corolla/

all of these 4 URLs serve page with same content. What is the best practice for this issue, is it generating duplication? Please advise

Hi HaCos,

Well it depends on how many users are there? thousands of users with thousands of sub domains is an expensive option. Go for user subdirectories instead of sub domains. And as each user got a sub domain too, so make that sub domain canonical of user sub directory. Hope this answers your question.

Hi HaCos,

Well it depends on how many users are there? thousands of users with thousands of sub domains is an expensive option. Go for user subdirectories instead of sub domains. And as each user got a sub domain too, so make that sub domain canonical of user sub directory. Hope this answers your question.

Hello moz fellas, I need expert advice for PakWheels about xml sitemap generation. There are hundreds of thousands of pages (mostly USG) and these are increasing day by day. What is the best practice of controlling all these pages in xml format. Where can we generate sitemap.xml to submit in Google and Bing webmaster tools.

Your input may help us in managing these URLs in an xml format. Thanks