Any programmatic SEO experts? I manage wiser.eco. ...
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Any programmatic SEO experts? I manage wiser.eco. We provide eco-friendly alternatives to consumers. Our website is built on wordpress and our product directory is built on React. Due to this, our search results are not indexed by google and we are missing out on potential traffic. I am looking for some advice on how we can implement programmatic SEO for our website
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Do you have a a site map? Are you sure it’s a React problem? If it is look into static site generation to convert React to HTML & CSS
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WordPress often sets search results to noindex by default. If you have an SEO plugin installed check index settings for the different taxonomies
Also simple search results may not be the best pages to index when trying to get traffic. You may need a more strategic approach
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@Ram Chaitanya First of all you need to check what's the URL address. Check the page path on debug view mode. GA normally strips the query parameter. So if the URL is not available in GA, it would be hard to get indexed. If that's the case, you need to create virtual pageview for each search pages. However, I just cross check the below URL. https://wiser.eco/products/product/Bamboo%20Solar It seems to be a headless page. Google will not index it as it doesn't have any content. And also, it seems, no GA tag installed. Solving these issues will help you index Yes, as @Max Peters suggested, the noindex, nofollow tags. @Diana It would be really difficult to maintain a sitemap around search queries, as these are dynamic in nature and got populated based on the search parameters.
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Google is actually pretty good at parsing React pages at this point, so thats why i think it’s not a react issue. I think it’s that google doesnt know to crawl those pages because theyre not specified in the sitemap and search result pages are usually not indexed because they are so dynamic as you mentioned @Sanjay Ananda Behera as well as low value so noindex like @Max Peters says. So i think @Ram Chaitanya should try sitemapping a few key search result pages to see if that helps. Or make landing pages
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@Diana I had worked on a site having programatic page. The site was built on react js. And to surprise, Google wasn't capturing the information from the headless page. And here is the simulation.
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Yeah it’s hit or miss! Sometimes its good at it but sometimes its not. So it could very well be reacts fault youre right