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Randomising Text

A problem for search engines?

         

abbeyvet

11:24 am on Sep 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I am not really sure where to post this question, so if this is the wrong place please move it.

I have a sentence that appears at the bottom of dozens, probably hundreds, of pages within a site and was almost identical on each one, except for the start and end which feed in from a CMS database - eg

"Brown Widgets are in our opinion a very good choice for anyone looking for widgets in Townville"

"Blue Widgets are in our opinion a very good choice for anyone looking for widgets in Cityville"

I decided to randomise the middle bit so that it looked less boring, so now each time the page loads the sentence is slightly different, but always make sense and convey the message we wish to send.

"Blue Widgets are, we believe, an excellent choice for anyone looking for widgets in Cityville"

"Blue Widgets are among the best widgets available in Cityville"

"Blue Widgets will not disappoint those looking for top quality widgets in Cityville"

Is this an issue for Search Engines - the fact that each time they see the page it is just a little changed? Does it seem spammy?

I wish it were possible to add a real fresh sentence to each listing, it would involve going back over more than 200 entries one by one and updating them, which I do not really want to do.

Thanks

Mike12345

8:23 am on Sep 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I dont think that would be a problem, its certainly not outside googles guidelines. Also, the content would be the same for both SE's and users so nothing spammy there, i say go for it, if its going to make your site better for your users.

JAB Creations

2:44 pm on Sep 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



If it's a small piece of your site I agree. Especially if it's just a script, searcn engines don't run scripts from what I've seen. Now if you're using serverside scripting to create random text, you're starting to get to the point where you're not sure how far down the bottom is anymore. As long as you don;t go overboard you should be fine.