B-Stock's 984 category landing pages under /auctions/ (Android phones, truckloads and so on) all carry the literal text "{{custom_description}}" as their meta description and social preview: a template field that was never filled. Search results and AI answers then write their own snippet, and links shared in reseller groups show the placeholder. The new Marketing Operations Manager is hired to make content meet SEO, AEO and GEO standards before it goes live; this is the largest single fix in reach.
First action
Write the description template and test it on ten pages.
How to measure it
Search click-through on category pages
- Now
- –
- Target
- +20%
- By
- 60 days
Steps
Confirm the scope
Crawl all /auctions/ pages for the placeholder.
Marketing Operations Manager 1 day
Write the template
Category, conditions, lot sizes, seller types, under 155 characters.
Marketing Operations Manager 1 day
Generate
Fill every page from category data.
Web Developer 2 days
Hand-edit the top 50
Pages with the most search impressions.
Marketing Operations Manager 2 days
Fix social previews
Same text in og:description.
Web Developer 1 day
Refresh the sitemap
Current last-modified dates.
Web Developer 1 hour
Add a publish check
Block pages with unfilled template fields.
Marketing Operations Manager 1 day
Measure
Search Console click-through by page.
Marketing Operations Manager monthly
Why it works
Fill the field from data each page already has: category, conditions, lot sizes and the marketplaces that sell it, e.g. "Bid on Android phone lots from carriers and trade-in companies: new to salvage, single pallets to truckloads." Generate it for all 984 pages, review the top 50 by traffic by hand, add the same text to the social preview, and refresh the sitemap's last-modified dates so search engines recrawl.
Descriptions written for buyers lift click-through from search, make shared links readable and give AI assistants a clear summary of each category.
Ready to use
CopyCategory page description
Bid on {category} lots from {seller_types}: {conditions}, from single pallets to truckloads. Buy direct from top retailers on B-Stock.
Example: Bid on Android phone lots from carriers and trade-in companies: new to salvage, from single pallets to truckloads. Buy direct on B-Stock.Risks and how to handle them
Generic generated text
Hand-edit the high-traffic pages and include real seller types.
Evidence
- Site checkThe 984 category landing pages under /auctions/ (for example "Android Phone Liquidation Auctions") all have the meta description and social preview text "{{custom_description}}", an unfilled template field: 30 of 30 sampled pages, rechecked on October 21, 2026. Their sitemap entries were last modified between 2024 and June 2025.Source
- HiringMarketing Operations Manager (posted September 15, 2026, reporting to the VP of Strategy): owns "Braze platform administration, SEO/AEO/GEO infrastructure, CMS governance, content performance reporting"; must "Ensure all published content meets SEO, AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) standards before going live, including structured data", "Monitor Core Web Vitals, crawl errors, broken links", keep a freshness standard, and "Flag redundancies and recommend consolidation across the marketing tech stack"; Payload CMS experience preferred.Source
- Your websiteFor Sellers page: "billions of dollars in resale transaction history", "15 years worth of data" on B2B resale pricing, a buyer base "close to half a million strong", "16k items sold per hour"; the category pages add "nine of the top 10 U.S. retailers" and "50+ marketplaces". Forms are split across separate contact pages for enterprise, business, EU entrepreneurs, supply sellers, partners and buyers.Source