Raisin's US sitemap lists copies of partner-bank product pages made for one channel or one test: high-yield savings pages for Centier Bank, NexBank and Merrick Bank that end in "-nerdwallet", and a Western Alliance Bank page that ends in "-a". The Merrick copy has the same title and the same 4.11% APY as the main page, a canonical pointing to itself and "index, follow", so Google is invited to rank two Raisin pages for one product. Eighteen more URLs, mostly bank pages, are listed twice. The new affiliate lead is asked for "precise campaign attribution" and the new US designer for A/B tests; both depend on each visitor landing on the page meant for their channel.
First action
Export the URLs ending in -nerdwallet or -a with their Search Console clicks for the last 90 days.
How to measure it
Indexed channel or test copies of product pages
- Now
- –
- Target
- 0
- By
- 30 days
Steps
List the copies
Every product page URL with a channel or test suffix, plus the duplicate sitemap entries.
SEO Manager 1 day
Check the traffic
Search Console clicks and affiliate-network registrations landing on each copy.
Marketing analytics lead 2 days
Fix the tags
Canonical to the main page and noindex on every copy; keep them reachable for partner links.
Web engineering lead 2 days
Clean the sitemap
Remove the copies and the 18 repeated entries; add a check that blocks repeats on publish.
Web engineering lead 1 day
Move tests to one URL
Run page variants through the site's testing tool instead of new addresses.
Digital Designer (US) 1 week
Tell partners
Confirm tracking still works on the partner links that use the copies.
Senior Affiliates Manager 2 days
Watch rankings
Main pages take over the queries the copies held.
SEO Manager weekly for 6 weeks
Why it works
Point the canonical of every channel or test copy at the main product page and mark the copies "noindex", drop them and the duplicate entries from the sitemap, and keep the copies live for the partner links that use them. Run future page tests on one URL with the testing tool already on the site instead of publishing a new address. Then check Search Console for searches where a copy was ranking and confirm the main pages take over.
One indexable page per product concentrates ranking on the page Raisin controls, stops organic visitors from arriving on a partner-labelled page (where they may be counted, or paid for, as affiliate traffic), and gives the affiliate and performance teams clean numbers to set cost-per-registration targets against.
Ready to use
ChecklistChannel-copy cleanup list
[ ] List product URLs ending in -nerdwallet, -a or other channel or test suffixes [ ] Canonical on each copy points to the main product page [ ] robots "noindex" on each copy [ ] Copies removed from /en-us/sitemap.xml [ ] 18 repeated sitemap entries removed [ ] Publish check that blocks duplicate sitemap entries [ ] Affiliate links to the copies still track [ ] Future tests run on one URL
Risks and how to handle them
A partner relies on the copy ranking
Keep the copy live for its links; only search engines are told to skip it.
Short dip while Google re-indexes
Change the highest-traffic product first and watch for two weeks.
Evidence
- Your websiteUS sitemap (662 URLs, read October 21, 2026): partner-bank product pages include three copies whose addresses end in "-nerdwallet" (Centier Bank, NexBank and Merrick Bank high-yield savings) and one ending in "-a" (Western Alliance Bank high-yield savings); 18 URLs, mostly bank pages such as Grand Bank, Medallion Bank and Prism Bank, are listed twice.Source
- Your websiteMerrick Bank high-yield savings at /high-yield-savings-account/ and at /high-yield-savings-account-nerdwallet/: the same title ("High-Yield Savings Account from Merrick Bank | Raisin"), the same 4.11% APY, each with a canonical pointing to itself and robots "index, follow". The Western Alliance "-a" copy is "index, nofollow" and canonical to itself. None of the bank product pages checked carries schema.org structured data.Source
- HiringSenior Affiliates Manager (B2C DACH, posted August 30, 2026): scale affiliate programs "within defined CPR (Cost per Registration) and CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) targets", acquire "financial comparison engines, specialised publishers, content creators, and influencers", "Conduct regular site audits to ensure integrations, interest rates, landing pages, and promotional assets remain accurate", and own "seamless tracking setup, precise campaign attribution" across networks such as Impact and financeAds. A Senior Partnership Manager post (October 15) carries the same brief.Source
- HiringDigital Designer (New York, posted October 20, 2026), in the Brand & Acquisition team "integrated with the US Marketing team": "Your main focus is conversion: designing and testing the landing pages, web journeys, and creative that turn interest into sign-ups"; partner with Marketing on "A/B and multivariate tests"; "governing overall website design standards"; design email templates with the CRM team.Source
- PageSpeed testGoogle PageSpeed for www.raisin.com/en-us/ on a phone (October 21, 2026): performance 32/100, largest content (the hero image of a phone with the Raisin dashboard) at 23.9 s in the lab test, 4.5 MB downloaded, 4.2 MB of it JavaScript, about 1.4 MB unused JavaScript (about 5.8 s), two redirects from raisin.com before the page (about 0.8 s), 15 third-party services, including the Optimizely testing tool. Real Chrome visitors pass Core Web Vitals (largest content at 1.6 s). Accessibility 92: buttons without accessible names and low-contrast text.Source