Guest Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Hello all, I have been a silent observer in these forums for a little while but now i need some help. Since its my first post please be gentle :lol: My website has been spidered by 4 search engines so far (google, crawl, intokmi, and one called robot) but all of them are only making 3 hits! these are the index page which is a frames page, the catalog directory (actually its solutions) and the page in the bottom of the frames page (bottom.htm). Is there some reason why the bots aren't drilling deeper into my catalog files. have i set something up wrong or is something tripping them up? would it have something to do with SIDs? any help would be really appreciated! Thanks in advance, edwin. P.S. website is here http://www.inquisitivemind.com.au (frames page) or catalog is here http://www.inquisitivemind.com.au/solutions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chfields Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 You may want to install the allprods contribution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 I wouldn't worry about the allprods as much as the Meta Tag contribution. Most search engines the see static title tags across all pages will only index the topmost page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperJack Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 How old is your site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 HyperJack brings up a good point. You should not expect to be indexed for up to a full 3 months. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Hi thanks all for the quick replies! My site is not very old, actually its only been up since mid june... BUT the three pages i mentioned above have already been indexed and if you search for inquisitive mind solutions in google im at the top of the page. http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=n...+mind+solutions. ill try and install both contributions when i get home tonight. by allprods do you mean the contribution http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,137 or the forum mod http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php...hlight=allprods thanks again everyone! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperJack Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 I think he's referring to the contribution. It creates a page with individual links to all of your products. Making a complete site map would help too. Since your site has only been up for a month or so, I wouldn't be worried. Here's a good resource to help with SE's. http://www.webmasterworld.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 However, with your site as it is currently constructed, no search engines will *ever* index more than your top most page because all of your titles are exactly the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TB Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Your biggest issue is the fact that you've put your site in a frame. Frames are like a big GET LOST to search engines! If you read about the reputable search engines and optimising software, you will get the same informaton. HTH, Tony "The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes much cheaper." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 does the allprods contributions do the same as what i have done here: http://www.inquisitivemind.com.au/solution...with_images.php and if i create a page that simply refreshes into the /solutions/ directory (as suggested in a diffrent thread) will search engines not like this either. If this is correct then how can i make www.inquisitivemind.com.au open in the directory www.inquisitivemind.com.au/solutions directory in a search engine friendly way? I will add the meta tag contribution tonight so that each page is different. thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 *bump* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 *bump* sorry just read forum rules and realised this is against the policy. Sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 However, with your site as it is currently constructed, no search engines will *ever* index more than your top most page because all of your titles are exactly the same. I'm not sure if this is correct. I have Oscommerce pages listed on Google and Altavista which have the exact same title on each and no meta tags at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 Edwin. My opinion for what it's worth: 1. Install the allprod.php contribution and link to it from your default.php page. 2. Install a SIDkiller script which stops spiders chewing through your bandwidth 3. Install some sort of Meta Tag contribtion (there are two or three to choose from) 4. Make your title for each page of product_info.php something like: buy product name at yoursite.com where product name depends upon the product being seen 5. Submit to Google and Dmoz. 6. Wait for a month after submitting. 7. Check www.google.com www2.google.com and www3.google.com 8. Head over to resource-zone.com to check the status of the submission to Dmoz. Wait another month, repeat steps 7 and 8 as necessary. hth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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