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Hi, This is indeed an SEO issue, because you could possibly get an infinite ammount of duplicate content pages of your homepage. I do not think it is a major issue (i think that Google in Webmaster tool handles it as a soft 404). But from a user standpoint it is weird and not really use friendly. It could be managed in the HTACCES but could also be a Wordpress setup. So it depends.

It probably shows up when you make a change b/c of the "freshness" factor.

There's no perfect solution, but Google's advice is to use rel=prev/next. This looks like pretty classic pagination. Rel-canonical is a stronger signal, but it's generally going to keep pages 2+ from ranking.

Thank you James

Hi Luke, It's a long time, unfortunately. Most of the 404 errors that I usually see in our Google Search Console properties are the ones that have been in there for ages. As you're dealing with bigger sites (+ 1 million pages) usually this is something you can't easily get rid of. For now I mostly tend to ignore them and try to focus on the crawl errors that come up during crawls via ScreamingFrog or Deepcrawl. Martijn.

Hi Vtmoz - You've received some great responses to your question. Did one or more of them help answer your question? If so, please mark them as a "Good Response." If your question is still unanswered, please provide us with an update so we can help. Thanks! Christy

Please note that this question was duplicated at https://moz.com/community/q/minimum-amount-of-content-for-ecommerce-pages-2#question_97951\. The duplicate was closed to new responses; any new responses to this question should be made in this thread. Thanks for your understanding! Christy

Hi Chris, I think the best is the first option. You can use teasers on the main product page for each theme like cycling, diving etc. And the details will be on the separate subpages. Inbound link for main product page will support all subpages. And you can link between each subpage too. NO4fc

Hi, I'm bit confused, you are saying you changed link structure of new website 6 months back and experienced rank drop. Your site starts ranking since launch? Can you share few links so we can check from our end? Thanks

Charlene, Your question does not make any sense, what block are they talking about? If your website provider is not allowing Google to crawl your site you should go look at getting a new provider straight away.

Thanks for this! 2 things: I'd suggest that if Site A republishes duplicate (syndicated) content from Site B and references Site B as the original source, you might want to consider simply blocking that content from search engines (on Site A). This will ensure that Google doesn't penalize for dupe content and also will prevent them from seeing the critical errors on the Site B AMP pages. Overall I've tested your example page and couldn't find anything seriously wrong, but one thing I did notice was that in your structured data markup (NewsArticle) you have an error: On the page: http://m.businesstoday.in/lite/story/reliance-jio-is-preparing-new-tariffs-and-exciting-offers-for-you/1/249662.html You list "mainEntityOfPage" as "http://m.businesstoday.in/" However, the Google guidelines state that "mainEntityOfPage" should be the canonical URL of the article page: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/articles#type_definitions (in this case: http://www.businesstoday.in/sectors/telecom/reliance-jio-is-preparing-new-tariffs-and-exciting-offers-for-you/story/249662.html) Although the markup does pass the structured data testing tool validation, it is possible that this is breaking the structured data and using NewsArticle markup is something that Google states you must have implemented to feature in the News Carousel. If fixing this doesn't help, I'd suggest cleaning up the non-critical errors next to see if that fixes the issue.

Can anyone offer any insight on this? The issue shows no sign of improving, and our organic is tanking. If this really is an issue on Google's side, and it appears based on our technical set up, how can I force Google to take note and reindex the pages? Here are some more examples, from across a number of categories.. Category A: Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/KEQ8Yh Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/DPzFWM Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/5KiQ4s Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/myRWNg Category B: Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/pr3YQs Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/8SEYi5 Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/LqzDrg Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/iwPs45 Category Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/YBZS7c Cached version of that page:https://goo.gl/n33QzG Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/Ht4gfO Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/u81vbA

Although I haven't tested this myself, I've heard others say that removing the meta description is one way to get Google to show a bigger description in the search results because they pull information off your website instead of sticking to the character limit of the tag.

Yes Nikki, great addition about avoiding redirect chains! Redirects are useful and difficult to avoid in most cases but redirecting to a redirect should always be avoided for the sake of Page Speed and common sense Cheers!!

Thanks, I don't know how I missed it. I've fixed the tags, Google has crawled and reindexed the website twice, however still a mess - plus the specific page is going up on serp? Anything else I can do to help Google get it right?

Hi, IMO best is https://moz.com/blog/using-google-tag-manager-to-dynamically-generate-schema-org-json-ld-tags . I'm also sharing a video on same that will help you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8P-B5aa5E0 Hope this helps. Thanks