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Please watch the video. There you will see that it is not possible to add locations to other cities
Hello?
Simone, that is the exact problem that is shown in my screenshots! In the backend are at least 10 other places and three listings.
Here the listings: http://screencast.com/t/wRwPmwKgX0G
As you can see these listings are in different cities.
Here you have a video showing what the exact problem is: http://screencast.com/t/0Wh5sre81
And here you even see in the sidebar that the listing is in Magdeburg but is placed in Hattingen: http://fzk.21cyberboy.de/standorte/magdeburg/lackdoktor/fahrzeugklinik-im-lackiercentrum-magdeburg/#post_profile
Any answer to this?
Any answer to this?
Its working now
As I said in the above mentioned thread: This is exactly what Google does not want to see. I have been in the SEO business for the last 10 years and since Panda google has an eye on this.
This is the exact time one should use a rel=canonical tag. And I do not want to use it here because these pages ought to be indexed and ranked high.
Even if they are indexed they will definitely rank worse as they could if done right. There are several tests out there that proof this.
So please provide a solid solution for this as it is an issue that needs to be addressed.
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Thanks for sharing that text spinner plugin. The plugin author claims “a unique copy will be generated on each page load”. Do you think it’s worth trying?
On each page load means that the text on that specific page changes any time google visits it. And that is not good. Google should see the same text on that specific page.
Otherwise Google could find the same text on two different pages because the plugin does not know which text it is diplaying on other pages.
If you want try it out. It might work 🙂
What if in addition to texts, we also add the listing date with each listing on the page?
Compared to the text needed this is not enough. It might help but not a lot.
I can ask a programmer regarding the spin text option if you can provide more details
This might help as well: https://wordpress.org/plugins/text-spinner/
The problem with this is that it automatically spins the texts and does not check the uniqueness of every text. But this is important to ensure that each text really is different.
Therefore, putting the various texts into a database would be better
Yes, that would be a good solution that I would have my programmer implement on the site.
The implementation is actually quite easy as we would only need a text field. In this text field we would need to add tags such as %%category%% and %%city%%.
This solution is not perfekt as we would need to add 500 word+ texts to really rank for competitive keywords. But it is still better than nothing.
Another option would be that we can use spin text using the {|} format. But that would be a major implementation I would say.
I have had a look at that topic before. It is a different problem, though.
The other problem can easily be solved with rel=canonical or 301 redirects.
My described problem is major as I want these category+city pages to rank. And they will not rank if the pages contain duplicate content.
I was also referred to this page regarding duplicate content and the provided answers do not satisfy me at all.
The problem mentioned I have not even realized but the problem is a lot bigger than just this.
The solution for the details pages would be to place an automatic redirect or rel=canonical tag as stated before. This needs to be implemented because I dont trust that google will not find these links.
Additionally, I have found that the category texts appear on every category+city page:
http://screencast.com/t/hrYmFVLTdpS
http://screencast.com/t/IQPb7ZJE598These are two speparate URLs. Both show the same text. The same applies to all the different cities we set up.
Meaning that if you enter a category text and 200 cities, you will have the text 201 times on your site. AND these pages do get indexed. I even want them to be indexed as thats what I build the site for. I want to rank for “CATEGORY in CITY” organically. This only happens, though, if there is a different text on all of these pages.
So the best would be if we could set up an individual text for every “city + category” page. If that is not possible the text should only be shown on all cities + category.
