Random Products on Homepage?

[filarinskis]

On our homepage, would having 8 randomly selected products from your catalogue (some of which contain keywords) be good, bad or have no effect on rankings?

The proucts change with every refresh. Some may remain the same, but just change position.

[fassa]

Google indexing works like taking a snapshot ... thus it depends on which content it catches when the indexing occurs it would have nearly no effect you should aim for the pages where the products really reside to optimize well for them and go for the broad terms for the main page.

[EGOL]

I think that it will have very little effect.... and guarantee that it will have zero effect if the products do not appear in spiderable text.

... I'd rather just list my kickass products on the homepage.

[EugeneF]

Random presentation of items is not what you want.   You want to tightly control which items are displayed on your front page.

Reasons to display items:

Hot seller you want your customer (who might not have searched for it) to see.

New Item you customer may not know about you want them to see.

Items you want want a little extra juice to flow to so they rank higher in search results.

Items you want to get crawled faster (often new items)