Maximizing search engine compatibility

[Guest]

Hi,

 

Would anyone know if there is a easier way for search engines to link to my products? After using a spider simulator, i've found that the products I sell are not linked by name, there is no name for the products that the search engine picks up at all, just a whole lot of gibberish like ae343lksdflj etc that links to the product.

 

I want to have some way of allowing a search engine to pick up my products names individually so that if somebody searches for that specific product it will link to that product page.

 

Any ideas please ?

[scotte]

product id number

[peterr]

Hi,

 

Sounds like the spider simulator was picking up session ID's ?

 

However, if you have all the well known spiders/crawlers specified in /includes/spiders.txt , and have "turn spider sessions off" , then eventually, when your site is being fully indexed, the website "content" _should_ show product names,etc in search engines.

 

Peter

[Guest]

Thanks for that Peter, will check that out right now. I have found a contribution called "Header tags controller" .. could this serve as a temporary solution or give me a boost in the meantime?

[Guest]

Another quick question. I've specified the following line for the spiders.

 

<meta name="REVISIT-AFTER" content="7 DAYS">

 

this "7 days" .. does that actually serve a purpose, and can it be changed to say "2 days" succesffully without the searchbot kicking your site out? :)

[Jack_mcs]

You may want to take a look at THIS. If you search the web, you will find that this is a pretty much useless tag. It's purpose, if it worked the way it is supposed to, is to tell the SE's when to revisit your site. If you make changes on a daily basis, then the period would be one day. The idea being that if you don't make changes except for every seven days, for example, then you could stop the bots from wasting your bandwidth for a whole week. But the worst thing you can do is stop the bots from visiting. Let them come as often as they like. They don't search your full site in one session, so limiting their visits mean it will take that much longer for all of your pages to get indexed.

 

Jack