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Hi Guys,

We have product pages on our site which have duplicate content, the search volume for people searching for these products is very, very small. Also if we add unique content, we could face keyword cannibalisation issues with category/sub-category pages.

Now based on proper SEO best practice we should add rel canonical tags from these product pages to the next relevant page.

Pros

• Can rank for product oriented keywords but search volume is very small.

• Any link equity to these pages passed due to the rel canonical tag would be very small, as these pages barely get any links.

Cons

• Time and effort involved in adding rel canonical tags. Even if we do add rel canonical tags, if Google doesn't deem them relevant then they might ignore causing duplicate content issues.

• Time and effort involved in making all the content unique - not really worth it - again very minimal searchers. Plus if we do make it unique, then we face keyword cannibalisation issues.

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What do you think would be the optimal solution to this?

I'm thinking just implementing a:

Across all these product based pages.

Keen to hear thoughts?

Cheers.

Hi just wondering i'm using the same image across 20 pages which are optimized for SEO purposes.

I was wondering is there issues with this from SEO standpoint?

Will Google devalue the page because the same image is being used?

Cheers.

Hi guys,

We have product e-commerce title tags which are over 60 characters - around 80 plus. The reason we added them in there is to incorporate
more information for Google.

The format of these title tags are:

Name + Colour + Rug Type + Origin

Name = for people searching for the name of the rug
Color = people searching for a specific color
Type = The type of rug (e.g. normal or designer)
Origin = Where the rug is for.

So this title will cover people searching for: People searching for designer rugs, the specific colour and also where it comes from.

This then results in the title tag going way over 60 characters - around 80-90 characters.

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Would it be wise to try and shrink it down to under 60 characters, and what would be a good approach to do this?

Cheers.

Hi Guys,

I'm working with a site which has hidden based category content see:

http://i.imgur.com/Sgko2we.jpg

It seems google are still indexing these pages but i heard Google might ignore or reduce the benefit of hidden content like this.I just want to confirm if this is the case? And if this is a really bad thing for SEO?Cheers.Sgko2we.jpg

Hi Guys,

Currently optimizing my e-commerce store which currently has around 100 words of content on average for each category page.

Based on this study by Backlinko the more content the better:

http://backlinko.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/02_Content-Total-Word-Count_line.png

Would you say this is true for e-commerce pages, for example, a page like this:

http://www.theiconic.com.au/yoga-pants/

What benefits would you receive with adding more content?

Is it basically more content, leads to more potential long-tail opportunity and more organic traffic?

Assuming the content is solid and not built just for SEO reasons.

Cheers.

Hi Guys,

Currently optimizing my e-commerce store which currently has around 100 words of content on average for each category page.

Based on this study by Backlinko the more content the better:

http://backlinko.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/02_Content-Total-Word-Count_line.png

Would you say this is true for e-commerce pages, for example, a page like this:

http://www.theiconic.com.au/yoga-pants/

What benefits would you receive with adding more content?

Is it basically more content, leads to more potential long-tail opportunity and more organic traffic?

Assuming the content is solid and not built just for SEO reasons.

Cheers.