SEO templates: when they help and when they hurt
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SEO templates: when they help and when they hurt
Writing meta tags by hand for five thousand products is impossible. Templates solve this – yet a poorly configured template creates five thousand identical titles.
Principle
How a template should work
Different templates for different page types. Category, product, brand, filter – each has its own logic.
Variable substitution. Name, brand, category, attribute, price – so that every result is different.
Testing on real data. Generate a few dozen and read them. You often get constructions like "Buy buy".
Risks
What breaks most often
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Titles that are too long
A long product name plus a template tail – and the title gets cut off at the most important part.
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Identical Descriptions
If the template has no variables, you get thousands of duplicates.
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Empty variables
A product without a brand gives "Buy cheap" with a double space.
Combination
The optimal approach
Templates for the bulk. Products and small categories – automatically.
Manual meta tags for what matters. Top categories, landing pages, brands – individually. Manual values must override the template.
Thousands of products without meta tags?
We will set up SEO templates for your catalog and check the result on real pages.
