Your advice regarding thin content would be really appreciated
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Hi guys,
I have embarked on a new site creation. The site is being created from scratch and very custom.
Basically the site allows people to review certain products and services.
If each review completed by users is seen as a seperate page by google ... is this considered deceptive or a likelihood of being slapped with a thin content penalty?
Basically 1 product may have hundreds of reviews naturally over time. Some may be really short and some may be longer.
the reason why i would like the user reviews to be seen as seperate pages is because I want google to understand that people are regularly interacting with the main content page.
Any advice in this area would be really appreciated.
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"You are better off putting up a separate review page for every review that page gets but still, I would choose putting it on the same page to take full advantage of it."
Yep this is exactly what I want to do. Sounds like Laura's idea is amazing and I need to do some more research on how to design a page to act in this way.
Thanks heaps guys!
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Actually the way amazon allows users to review products is very similar to the way i want mine set up.
So there is a main product page (like amazon) and reviews below it... what is this 'overflow' you speak of? can you kindly provide any direction?
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So if I understood this correctly:
- You want to assign a new page per review
- You fear that it's thin content
If so, then it is thin. Very thin.
Google will know if you update your page, much like how pages get new comments.
You are better off putting up a separate review page for every review that page gets but still, I would choose putting it on the same page to take full advantage of it.
Laura's suggestion of doing overflows like amazon is also a good one. Pretty brilliant actually. I would've forgotten about that.
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Hi Irdeto -
I'm not sure I understand how putting each review on a separate page would make Google think that there is more interaction on the product page (am I getting that right?)
Having each review as a separate page is potentially indeed very thin. It also sounds like a horrible user experience. Review text will add more rich text to the product page, which is great. Can you limit the reviews on a page to x reviews and then come up with a system for the overflow (potentially a product reviews page (vs the main product page) like Amazon?
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