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Antonio,
Thank you for the response.
No, I am not wanting to index random search results pages – I am wanting to make the sitemap “canned” searches IDXBroker automatically generates valuable from an SEO standpoint. Specifically, the pages that get listed on the idx/sitemap page.
For example, visit this page: http://getresults.mountainplacerealty.com/idx/sitemap
Then under SEARCH REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY CITY select Blue Ridge, Georgia Real Estate<http://getresults.mountainplacerealty.com/idx/city-b251-Blue%20Ridge-4581>, then Residential Properties for Sale in Blue Ridge, GA Between $400,000 – $500,000<http://getresults.mountainplacerealty.com/idx/results/listings?idxID=b251&city%5B%5D=4581&lp=400000&hp=500000&pt=1>. This page and all that are produced by the sitemap have duplicate page title and page description. If they each had a unique URL, a unique page title, and an unique page description (that ideally we could customize somewhat as with saved searches) would this not help rather than hinder SEO?
On this page for example: Residential Properties for Sale in Blue Ridge, GA Between $400,000 – $500,000<http://getresults.mountainplacerealty.com/idx/results/listings?idxID=b251&city%5B%5D=4581&lp=400000&hp=500000&pt=1>
Rather than the URL being: http://getresults.mountainplacerealty.com/idx/results/listings?idxID=b251&city[]=4581&lp=400000&hp=500000&pt=1<http://getresults.mountainplacerealty.com/idx/results/listings?idxID=b251&city%5B%5D=4581&lp=400000&hp=500000&pt=1>
It might be: http://getresults.mountainplacerealty.com/idx/results/listings/residential-properties-for-sale-in-blue-ridge-ga-between-$400000-$500000 or something similar
Same for the page title and page description.
Sorry if I’m missing something here in terms of your intent on how best to use the IDXBroker sitemap.
Thanks so much for your consideration and assistance,
Brian
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Loading...Back to your previous point about the sitemap and deferring to the sitemap.xml – I had a couple of my IDXB sites frogged last night just using the the sitemap.xml and ignoring the non-xml sitemap. Still lots of duplicate page titles/descriptions. If you follow the xml sitemap down the tree, you end up in the same place you would following the non-xml sitemap e.g. Lots & Land Properties for Sale in some city, CA Between $300,000 – $400,000 or Lots & Land Properties for Sale in some city, CA Between $400,000 – $500,000, etc. Each of those “canned” search pages have duplicate page titles/descriptions.
I don’t know how to measure or quantify the SEO impact of the duplicates, but I’m assuming it would be better if we didn’t have the duplicates and better still if we could make each unique and meaningful from a keyword standpoint.
Other than no indexing pages, can we just omit the “canned search” pages selectively or all together in favor of the saved search pages where we have total control? Perhaps that’s a bad idea, but it would at least provide an opportunity for a head/head test of both methods to see if less is more from a SERP standpoint.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...IDX leads – wouldn’t that depend on the tags which could be injected into the photo gallery pages? One unique tag and/or static word/phrase in conjunction with the same types of dynamic tags already present in the details page would in my mind allow us to make the photo gallery page titles and descriptions unique (from each other and the details pages). Even taking the sitemap pages out of the equation, there are still a number of pages with duplicate page title and page descriptions, e.g. listings for each agent from the roster page. In your experience, is that a problem from an SEO perspective or a nit in the overall scope of things?
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...To fully resolve the duplicate page title and page description issues which as I am learning do impact SERP, we need to be able to have or preferably inject custom tags into the gallery pages as well as all of the pages linked from the sitemap and all of the listing pages for each agent linked from the roster page. This would eliminate virtually all of the duplicate page titles and page descriptions.
I think this is an important request in terms of boosting SERP for IXDB powered sites. I am happy to provide a screaming frog URI report that demonstrates the extent of the duplicate page title and page description issue if that wold be helpful.
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You need to be a registered member to rate this post.Loading...Antonio,
Thanks for your response! The form we’d like to build would be static HTML, just a bootstrap form version that fits our overall template. Thanks to your posting in the dev partner learn center, I now know how to do this for a simple contact form. However, I’d like to make this work for the dynamic forms (more info (which is usually at the bottom of the detail page) and schedule showing (which opens on a new page) as they include the listing ID and other pertinent info. I’m just not sure how to do this as these dynamic forms have hidden fields which contain the values for the listingID, address, etc so that the agent knows what property was being viewed when the lead is sent via e-mail.
<input type="hidden" name="idxID" value="b251"> <input type="hidden" name="listingID" value="249764"> <input type="hidden" name="address" value="67 MOUNTAIN HIGH"> <input type="hidden" name="cityName" value="Blue Ridge"> <input type="hidden" name="state" value="Georgia"> <input type="hidden" name="zipcode" value="30559"> <input type="hidden" name="listingPrice" value="$1,100,000">Hope I’m making sense.
Thanks so much,
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