Templated content with minor changes
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Hello,
I am working on a site with 1000s of inventory pages. i am slowly building links and writing custom content for pages that will bring best ROI. Will i have issues on templated pages with minor changes.currently traffic is pretty good.
thank you
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If Google ever detects an issue will I be notified via webmaster before anything occurs?
No, you will simply see a traffic / rankings drop.
If you were in my situation how would you handle this?
If this was my site and I didn't depend upon it for my income I would let it roll "as is" but get lots of unique content up ASAP.
If this was my living or a client site and it was doing really well I would get a larger budget or a loan and and get the content beefed up really fast with hired help.
Or, if I was really conservative I would do some deindexing.
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I am still new at Seo, and am trying to keep everything as clean and white hat as possible. If Google ever detects an issue will I be notified via webmaster before anything occurs? Now I am very nervous and not sure what to do? If you were in my situation how would you handle this? The site is roughly 2 years old, in a med-high competition market. With literally thousands of potential pages for custom content which I am working on daily, myself, as well as outsourcing.
Any help MUCH appreciated
Thanks so much!
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If the overall performance is pretty good you can let it continue "as is" but keep improving the default performer content. But be aware that you are "getting away with thin content" until Panda catches you. Then if Panda hits you will have to take the drastic action of deindexing all of the thin pages and waiting with very low traffic until it recovers.
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Should I block the all template stype pages? I am lost now as to what to do, they sites overall performance has been pretty good.
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Hello!
No we have the ability to write custom content for each page, but the amount of time and work is monstrous. We have large competitors that do the same thing. What would you recommend doing? The site is live event tickets, music, sports,theater, so you can imagine just how many pages are there. What it allows us to do is write a performer default copy, and there is a tag that that will match artists searched. Im not 100% sure what to do now? Any help appreciated!
Thanks
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That's not very much information to go on...
.... but it sounds like you only have the ability to write custom content for a small number of pages. If you write custom content for 20 pages and launch 980 that are near duplicate the very best that you might get is 21 pages that appear in search results - your 20 uniques and one of the 980.
If the Panda catches you then you will will have 21 pages that compete very poorly - if at all - in the search results.
If this was my site I would write ten pages per day and upload them when they are ready for visitors.
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