Jump to content
  • Checkout
  • Login
  • Get in touch

osCommerce

The e-commerce.

Google questions... How to change how


phatweb

Recommended Posts

Posted

Ok.. if I go to www.google.com and type in barrons magazine

My website magazines2u.com comes up in the top 10 and the info shows very nicely.

 

Now.. go to www.google.com and type site:www.magazines2u.com and look at most of my listings.. they show up as something like this:

 

Architectural Digest en Espanol Magazine Subscription ...

osCommerce, My Account Cart Contents Checkout. Top ? Catalog ? Outdoor

Activities ? 40461, My Account | Cart Contents | Checkout. Categories, ...

 

 

Why?

 

Looking at the 2 magazines I cant see anything different... they were inputted the same way and everything..

 

Any ideas on why they're so different?

 

Barrons Magazine show up in google like this:

 

Barrons Magazine Subscription - Magazines2U.com Magazine ...Barrons Magazine - Full one year subscription - 52 issues. The indispensable guide to what's happening on Wall Street and all the ...

 

 

 

How can I get all my listings to show up in google like above?

 

Ideas will be greatly appreciated... willing to pay for help on this at this point.. it's driving me nuts.

 

Thanks again!!

Posted

1) Do you have Meta tags on your site?

2) Make sure you use a good 'alt' tag in your title logo. Sometimes search engines will read your image as your first text, so you always want to make sure you use a good alt tag in your logo. Also, anyone viewing your site that is viewing impaired(sp?) and having a computer read your page will hear "osCommerce" as the first thing on your page since that is your logo's current alt tag. As you notice...

osCommerce, My Account Cart Contents Checkout. Top ? Catalog ? Outdoor

Activities ? 40461, My Account | Cart Contents | Checkout. Categories, ...

 

...is the top of your page. Google is reading from top to bottom, so give them something 'juicy' to read on top (meta/alt tags).

 

Oh yeah, that'll be $499, just donate that to the OSC team members ;)

Contributions I used : Updated 06-13-04 23:42

----------------

Vote on My Graphis Poll

Posted

I've got the addon that automatically creates the meta tags based on the item... so like if you go to http://www.magazines2u.com/product_info.ph...oducts_id=10103

 

which is reader's digest and view source the first thing you see is this:

<html>

<head>

 

<title>Readers Digest Magazine</title>

<meta name="keywords" content="Readers Digest Magazine">

<meta name="description" content="Readers Digest Magazine - Reader's Digest provides practical news and information on a variety of topics including health, personal finance, parenting, current events, humor, and adventure. ">

 

Not sure if that's good or bad... but that's what it is currently.

 

Alt tags for my logo currently just says OsCommerce -- where do I change that?

Can it show as the name of the item depending on the page you're looking at?

 

Product image alt tags just say the product name. Is that ok?

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...