(Entry was posted by Gaz Underhill on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/12/2017).

Acceptable search result for a small ecommerce site

Hi people, i have just performed a site: search with my website, it has returned 1, 140 results. Is this acceptable for an small ecommerce site? show i be nofolow or noindexing any certain pages?

This question begins at 00:40:25 into the clip. Did this video clip play correctly? Watch this question on YouTube commencing at 00:40:25

Share on Twitter

Share on Facebook

YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

David Kutcher: How many products do you have in that e-commerce site? That would be useful to know ;)
Gaz Underhill: i surpose i should have asked, should i no follow or noindex my wishlist, contact us page etc..?
Alan Bleiweiss: If you have 50 products, and 10 blog posts, then yes, 1, 000 or more pages listed in the site: result is bad. Very bad.
Jody Nesbitt: you want those pages linked internally, internal links are a metric that is used as well https://yoast.com/internal-linking-for-seo-why-and-how/ read this, but dont buy into the "upgrade to paid plugin" parts
Gregory Dantschotter: I wouldn`t put a noindex on your contact page. That`sâ€‹ needed for local business and search engines are adding value if there`s a contact page available. The wishlist page depends on the content
Mike Gracia: I think you need to have a look at what the URLs are, that are being indexed, then go from there. You may have things like canonical issues (hopefully not!) or tag pages or sub archives indexed etc. Really, it depends on what specifically is being indexed.