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Hi,

our ecommerce CMS (Magento) is creating a bunch of pages with very little content and no user value like this: http://goo.gl/UU2vl

This particular example is the by product of a product filtering page, which has the format www.mywebsite/explore/index/loaddata/id/10/.

These pages have no content other than images - also the pages don't have page titles and are therefore being flagged in webmaster tools as requiring HTML improvements

We also have CMS auto generated pages like this: www.mysite.comhttp/review/product/list/id/7

where the page is effectively a duplicate of the product page, and this is giving us pages being flagged by webmastertools as having duplicate title tags.

Should we exclude these two type of page via robots.txt or take another approach, like not worry about them

many thanks, any help gratefully received.

Hi there,

We design and sell our own product range in a narrow niche, and we are also stocked by Amazon and a lot of other big retailers in the UK.

During the first two weeks of Dec 2012 the position of one of our main keywords, which was in google SERPs on page 1 (8 or 9), dropped to page 4. The keyword describes the niche we're in.

The drop is shown in the webmaster tools traffic report for that keyword. But it's the only one of our keywords where this has happened, and furthermore it hasn't happened for variations of the keyword.

And in Adwords our quality score for the keyword is 10

For example say we were making and selling shopping trolleys -  our keyword "shopping trolleys" has dropped through the floor, but "shopping trolleys (on) wheels" is just fine.

Can anyone shed any light on what's going on here? Losing this one keyword has cost us some good organic traffic.

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