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That's a really great point, and thanks for the "Good Answer!" I particularly appreciate the duplicate content point.

What are your thoughts on the matter if the popular searches are not created automatically (e.g., could include "kitten" and "kittens" because those are perfectly reasonable search terms) but rather created manually? They reflect broad categories to help provide search engines a way of seeing important items, along with a site map. (All this is, regretfully, in lieu of a proper browse functionality that will require a bit more work given how the data is structured). Search pages would then reflect only orthogonal terms, such as "kitten" "puppy" "guppy" etc, so they are (at least as far as I can think) unlikely to produce duplicate result pages.

That's only my uninformed, amateur strategy. What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

Thanks, M.-J.!

Yes, I am not concerned about optimizing my content pages for my search engine. Rather, I am concerned with optimizing my search engine result pages for Google/Bing/Yahoo.

For instance, suppose the page title was:

"kitten - Search Results | MyCompany.com"

What should page 2 of these results be?

"kitten - Search Results | Page 2 | MyCompany.com"

I ask because it seems that linking to popular searches on my own search engine seems like a reasonable strategy to help Google crawl a site and find content. What are the best on-page strategies?

I have consistently used page numbers on a site when I had multi-page articles and either my CMS or authors were unwilling/unable to create an appropriate page title for each subsequent page. (e.g, "My article title | MyCompany.com" and "My article title | Page 2 | MyCompany.com")

Thoughts?

Hello all,

What are good on-page SEO practices for the search result pages on our own sites? For instance, what page titles do you use? Do you include page numbers? Meta-descriptions? Headers? Keyword utilization?

This is a consideration for us as we link to some popular search results on our sites.

Thanks!