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Thanks for that,

It could be an issue creating 'unique' content on every page as potentially there will be A LOT of pages (one for each major car make & model) but you might be right. I'll have a think and a chat with the dev team.

Thanks again.

Thanks Nitin,

The site is in development so unfortunately I can't share a URL but I found a link that is not a million miles away from what we are doing, see below. My concern was because the bulk of the content on each page will be the same. Each page will be structure something like this:

Page Title
Car model detail (lets say Audi A4)

Generic product information for 4 product types:
Product 1
Product 2
etc

Something like this:
http://www.carscovers.co.uk/AUDI-A4-ALLROAD-CAR-COVER-2008-ONWARDS.html
http://www.carscovers.co.uk/BMW-1-SERIES-COUPE-CABRIOLET-CAR-COVER-2004-ONWARDS.html

As you will see, the main content on each of the pages above is the same. (because the actual product is the same).

Does this help describe the potential issue?

That does help, not sure how I missed that. Thanks Benjamin.

Hi,

We are working on a site that sells lots of variations of a certain type of product. (Car accessories)

So lets say there are 5 products but each product will need a page for each car model so we will potentially have a lot of variations/pages. As there are a lot of car models, these pages will have pretty much the same content, apart from the heading and model details. So the structure will be something like this;

Product 1 (landing page)

• Audi (model selection page)
  ---Audi A1 (Model detail page)
  ---Audi A2 (Model detail page)
  ---Audi A3 (Model detail page)
• BMW (model selection page)
  ---BMW 1 Series (Model detail page)
  ---BMW 3 Series (Model detail page)

Product 2 (landing page)

• Audi (model selection page)
  ---Audi A1 (Model detail page)
  ---Audi A2 (Model detail page)
  ---Audi A3 (Model detail page)
• BMW (model selection page)
  etc
  etc

The structure is like this as we will be targeting each landing page for AdWords campaigns.

As all of these pages could look very similar to search engines, will simply setting up each with a canonical be enough? Is there anything else we should do to ensure Google doesn't penalise for duplicate page content?

Any thoughts or suggestions most welcome.
Thanks!

Many thanks, all extremely helpful information! It's really appreciated.

This all gives me some food for thought and it also looks like I've got some work to do!

Thanks again.

Hi all, I just wondered what determines the company listings that are displayed in maps. From what I can see any businesses highlighted in these lists have optimised Google Places pages and it doesn't seem to be based on general ranking as these lists seem different to the general SERPS.

Any thoughts at all appreciated. Pls see attached image.

Also, is there anything other than optimise your Places listing that might help ensure you are seen in these results?

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Just renewed our subscription and disappointed this functionality is still not available. I remember this was 'in development' about 2 years ago when others asked the same question. Any eta on development?

Edit: Just click on Chris's link, looks like I spoke too soon!

Many thanks Miriam, that's most appreciated. Will have a look at the link shortly.

Hi all,

My query relates to the Google Places 'Widget' (not sure what they are called exactly). If you do a search for, let's say 'Apple' you get the regular SERPs and on the right of the page they display a Google Places panel which includes map, company details & reviews. (and also a G+ panel for some businesses, where appropriate)

What determines this being displayed?  I had presumed a correctly formatted and optimised 'Places' page and making sure this was linked and verified. We have Google Places set up for quite a long time (and verified) but for some reason it's not being displayed. Any thoughts?

On another note, a client of ours has the opposite issue - they would like to remove this panel from SERPs. I'm guessing the only way to do that would be to remove the Google Places page?

Thanks in advance...

Many thanks for your reply and suggestions, you have certainly shed some light on the situation and the article mentioned was excellent, a great resource. Thanks again!

Hi all, I just wondered what the general opinion was with regard getting Google publisher status for medium to large organisations. Lots of our clients write a lot of articles & publications and it would be interesting to get some thoughts on how others view Authorship & in particular Publisher credentials.

Thanks!

Just wondering how it works when a user searches for the actual url as that is currently not showing in SERPs. so if a user searches for 'tppmc.co.uk' there are no results. Presumably this is due to the redirection?

Apologies, I should have mentioned, 'mgpc' is not the actual abbreviation & www.mygreatpropertycompany.com is not his site - just an example of how it's set up. I didn't feel it appropriate to mention the actual site at this point. His actual site is www.**.co.uk, which redirects to http://.com.

An SEO company did some work for him but simply created pages from important keywords to get ranked and the content on those pages is very poor indeed.

I agree tho, it might not be that easy to get ranked for *****, might do a little more looking around and see what I can dig up.

Thanks!

A client has 2 domains that he wants to use for the same site. At the moment one domain is just an abbreviation of the main domain (not sure why) as follows:

www.mygreatpropertycompany.com
www.mgpc.com (just redirects to the above)

He is complaining that when he searches for 'mpc' there are no results (at all) so I'm wondering what the best approach is.There is currently nothing on the main domain that refers to 'mgpc' in it's abbreviated sense - the only place it's being used is the company's email addresses ([email protected]).

The redirect is simply a html file in the root of www.mgpc.com as follows:

Is there anything I can do to help him out? (this is one of those 'doing a friend a favour' tasks!)

Thanks!