Product Tags
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Opencart allows the use of product tags (please note, these are NOT meta tags) which I believe are used for when customers want to search for a product using the search function. So one of my tags could be ''star wars socks'', and when a customer types this into the search it brings up every product containing the tag for socks.
This is all good and well, however, these tags appear on the product page itself, right below the Manufacturer/Brand, and above the price (they created pages but I have canonical links in them so that is a non-issue). Will Google look kindly on this or could it be considered as keyword stuffing? Or will Google know they're for search and ignore them?
I just need to know whether or not removing them entirely will be a good or bad idea.
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Correct, hiding is bad idea, which is what i mentioned
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Hi Dmitrii,
Thanks for answering. I have utilized google tag manager so hopefully that will solve the issue. In relation to your suggestion of hiding the tags using code, I'm pretty sure that is a huge no no for google. As I understand it, hiding text via any means is always a bad idea.
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Hi there.
Well, google can't know that those are "just tags"
So, unless you "hide" it from Google (which can result in even worst outcome), it would be considered some type of keyword stuffing (especially if there are tons of them like a tag cloud or something).
What you might wanna do is just not to display it on your pages (i assume there should be a way to do that through code or settings).
Hops this helps
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