Templating got me to 33,620 pages. Indexing them was the hard part.
The author shares insights from their experience with programmatic SEO, highlighting the challenges of indexing a large number of templated pages. Despite generating 33,620 pages, only a small fraction were indexed, with most traffic coming from a limited number of those pages. Key lessons learned include the importance of unique content and the competition between different URL types for indexing.
- ▪The author created 33,620 templated pages but only about 6,200 were indexed by Google.
- ▪Most of the organic traffic came from the indexed pages, which represented only 18% of the total pages created.
- ▪The author learned that templated content must vary significantly to avoid being flagged as low-quality by Google's algorithms.
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