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Tom Morgan
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Marketplace Category Pages Rank Without Unique Content

A marketplace category page is a saved query over live inventory.

Google’s own documentation is the strongest evidence for what Google says it does. Google tells site owners hosting such content to exclude it from Search. Notice that “that said created” covers templated database pages as much as AI output and Google crawling.

Key takeaways

  • I also simulated a category of 1,200 listings.
  • In this model, 64.1% of single-facet pages fill a grid page, but only 10.5% of two-facet pages do, and 0.8% of three-facet pages do.
  • Split category URLs into cohorts by the three tests.

What to do this week Export your indexable category and facet URLs.

Read the full article: https://www.contentevaluator.online/2026/10/16/marketplace-category-pages-rank/

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