Duplicate page title and content

[tolyadem1]

Hello,

I have an ecommerce store where we offer many similar products, and  the main difference could be the color or memory storage. Due to this reason my main problem appears to be be duplicate page title and content.  What is the best way to correct this issue? I cant make them different neither. I always include this particular difference in title or description. I guess it is not enough? any way to fix it?

thanks!

[IPIM]

How are the product pages for your ecomm store generated, are they dynamic or static?  Is this a custom build store or an off the shelf product?  Do you have a link?

[DarkSeid]

if the color or memory storage is different than you can add that as a suffix on your page title, or the best bet would be to change the page titles/ and add different content for each product.

[EGOL]

Instead of having separate pages for all of these items, are you able to make a single page that displays the various options?  That might make those pages more competitive in search, give you an opportunity to sell multiples, and upsell to the more profitable models.

[ShaMenz]

Hi Anton,

If it happens to be an OsCommerce Store, there are modules out there that you can install which allow you to see and manually edit Category and Product Titles and Tags in the catalog section of your admin panel. Just check out the Oscommerce community pages for one that suits you.

In the situation where you are using product feeds which often provide identical titles and descriptions you can just edit the ones you want to change - what you don't manually edit simply uses the information from the product description.

If you are not using a standard installation like OsCommerce or some other shopping cart software that has these modules available you can get a programmer to write you a simple script which allows you to do the same thing (or write it yourself if you have the skills). We have several client sites that are dynamic (some wordpress, some custom php etc) where this has been a problem and our programmer has written me a script which provides a web interface which allows me to edit titles, tags and content as I wish. It is a fairly simple process (according to him!)

Hope this helps.

[tolyadem1]

I have static pages. it's a highly seo friendly and customizable shopping cart.

[tolyadem1]

Unfortunately it's not the option, most of the products are high end consumer electronics and have to create a new product page of every new product.:(

for Example one product would be:

iPhone 4 16gb

second:

iPhone 4 32gb

so we have to list them separtly

[tolyadem1]

i use this product differences in every title and tag I can to avoid it, but unfortunately

still no luck:(

here is example of meta tag:

<title>LG Cookie Fresh GS290 Blue Unlocked GSM Cell Phone</title>

Than we have this product in silver, so instead of word green I use silver, the product itself is completely the same but we have so many same models with small differences. We also cant list one product and than offer an option to choose the customer the color, since they might simply leave the page if they dont see the color they looking for or the storage capacity like in iphone

[oznappies]

If you must have a seperate page for each product rather than the 16G/32G options then you may be able to describe them differently rather than cut an past the text. There are many ways to talk about the features of a given product.

Alternatly, are you able to use an opening page to to talk about the specific features of the iPhone and branch to the version the customer wants to purchase?