SEO Contributions --> I'm Lost

[dswofford]

I am new to SEO but it seems that there are many diffrent routes you can take as far as seo...

 

SEO Urls

AllProducts

Meta tag contributions....

 

What I wondering is which are the best / Of the most quality.. Do any conflict with each other? Also it seems search engines are changing there way of indexing therefore its like im changing to meet them. Wouldnt it be better to have great content and let the engines worry about whether or not they can figure out what it is.. I dont mean to seem all high and mighty but Im not a big fan of installing contributions all over a site thats already working????????

 

(Trying to figure this out by googles next update)

[Jack_mcs]

If by "already working" you mean that you are placed high in the SERP's then it would probably be a waste of time to make any changes. If you are not, then you need to install some contributions. The most important are the ones that affect the title of the pages of your shop. This would be header Tags and Dynamic Meta Tags. I prefer the former, some prefer the latter. They both work, but not together. Depedning on the rest of your page, you can get a top ten position with just Header Tags. If the rest of your page is not setup correctly, then adding Ultimate SEO and SEO iteMap will help. All products and SiteMap MS2 will also help. These two should be installed anyway since they are helpful to your customers.

 

Jack

[dswofford]

If by "already working" you mean that you are placed high in the SERP's then it would probably be a waste of time to make any changes.  If you are not, then you need to install some contributions. The most important are the ones that affect the title of the pages of your shop. This would be header Tags and Dynamic Meta Tags. I prefer the former, some prefer the latter.  They both work, but not together. Depedning on the rest of your page, you can get a top ten position with just Header Tags. If the rest of your page is not setup correctly, then adding Ultimate SEO and SEO iteMap will help.  All products and SiteMap MS2 will also help. These two should be installed anyway since they are helpful to your customers.

 

Jack

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I am using the header thing with auto fill keywords and desc I love it. My understanding is all produtcs is a kind of redirection is that corect? do you know a page I can see it on? also I have herd of many bugs with seo urls is that true? I enable the seening that came with ms2.2 that says search engine safe urls and my site says input error?

 

and last but not least.... Im confused about what i should have my sid settings at? should I force cookies etc...? thnaks for all your help jack...

[Jumping Rabbit]

The seo urls in osCommerce works on some servers, but not on all.

 

If it shows errors turn them off.

 

You can find other alternative seo url add ons in Contributions

 

Header tags works, if you like it then stick to it.

 

Regarding sids

 

- let force cookies stay at false

 

- set prevent spider sessions to true

 

- get the latest spiders.txt from the contributions section and upload it to your site.

[dswofford]

The seo urls in osCommerce works on some servers, but not on all.

 

If it shows errors turn them off.

 

You can find other alternative seo url add ons  in Contributions

 

Header tags works, if you like it then stick to it.

 

Regarding sids

 

- let force cookies stay at false

 

- set prevent spider sessions to true

 

- get the latest spiders.txt from the contributions section and upload it to your site.

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ok great thanks for all the tips ill check out the contribution.. im running windows 2003 server with php4 . I had already set my sids settings as stated above and spides were getting my osid and caching it... i updated my spiders text just know that should take care of it right?... im reffering to msn?

 

I cant belive how generous and helpful everyone is around here. I feel like a leech :)

[Jumping Rabbit]

ok great thanks for all the tips ill check out the contribution.. im running windows 2003 server  with php4 .    I had already set my sids settings as stated above and spides were getting my osid and caching it...  i updated my spiders text just know that should take care of it right?... im reffering to msn?

 

I cant belive how generous and helpful everyone is around here.  I feel like a leech :)

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If your sid has already been spidered, no, then u need something like this Spider Session Remover

[dswofford]

If your sid has already been spidered, no, then u need something like this Spider Session Remover

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Thanks A million!!!!! I see the point that would have been bad every one logging in under th same sid

 

one more question isnt all products contribution redundent it seems to only save the spider one level of crawling and now its going to see the same info twice once it crawls the rest of the site?

[Jumping Rabbit]

Thanks A million!!!!!  I see the point that would have been bad every one logging in under th same sid

 

one more question    isnt all products contribution redundent it seems to only save the spider one level of crawling and  now its going to see the same info twice once it crawls the rest of the site?

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It depends, there are different views abound about this subject.

 

But if you do some extra work and make sure your structure is consistant with the url/rewrite contribs used it will have a positive effect.

 

If seo urls work on your server, this contrib has a "natural" progression structure all over Seach Engine Friendly URL

 

If sef url do not work for you, these 2 does the trick with some extra structural work from you.

 

1. Ultimate SEO URLs

 

2. SEF Link Transformer

[dswofford]

It depends, there are different views abound about this subject.

 

But if you do some extra work and make sure your structure is consistant with the url/rewrite contribs used it will have a positive effect.

 

If seo urls work on your server, this contrib has a "natural" progression structure all over Seach Engine Friendly URL

 

If sef url do not work for you, these 2 does the trick with some extra structural work from you.

 

1.  Ultimate SEO URLs

 

2. SEF Link Transformer

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i think I will try seo urls but what do you mean by extra strucrual work?

[Jack_mcs]

I am using the header thing with auto fill keywords and desc  I love it.  My understanding is all produtcs is a kind of redirection is that corect?  do you know a page I can see it on?  also I have herd of many bugs with seo urls is that true?  I enable the seening that came with ms2.2  that says search engine safe urls  and my site says input error? 

 

and last but not least.... Im confused about what i should have my sid  settings at?  should I force cookies etc...?  thnaks for all your help jack...

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No, all products is just a link to all of your products. It doesn't do anyting fancy, just provides the SE's with a quick link to the products. Since you are on a windows server, you cannot use SEO SiteMap and can only use Ultimate SEO in the cName mode. Son't use the search engine safe URL option - it rarely works correctly. Leave force cookies off and prevent spiders on.

 

Jack