"robots.txt" FILE-high search engine ranking issue

[nicedeals]

good work guys..keep it up...

I'm a newbie here so hope you guys can help..

 

The problem!

I have submitted my website " www.nicedeals.co.uk " to a few search engines and have added the meta tag contributions which allows you to add meta tag title, description and keywords in the admin panel under "edit". Now I have a few issues with the rankings. I'll deal with msn and google here as yahoo is an altogether different ball game or so I'm told.

 

MSN;

msn has indexed the first categories from my website e.g. if i search for " vauxhall astra body panels " it will rank me No.1 and take me to my website page " http://nicedeals.co.uk/caraccessories/nfos...7661882d85c1a0f " wich is the main category under " body panels and lamps " covering all the vauxhall models. but if I type " astra body panels" it will rank me lower down although I have specified a more specific meta tag just for vauxhall astra and it doesn't index the astra page either which should be;

" http://nicedeals.co.uk/caraccessories/nfos...972f78d25951867 "

 

Google;

google on the other hand is not ranking me anywhere near the first pages and will only show my site if I was to type something like " vauxhall nicedeals " and even then the more specific pages for astra will be in the ommited search results if atall present.

 

Now correct me if I'm wrong but this robots.txt file if used in a way where only the specific vauxhall models i.e. astra , calibra pages etc are only allowed to be read by the bots should increase the website ranking for specific searchees like" astra bonnet " etc.

 

Thank you so much for reading and any help geatly appreciated. :thumbsup:

[FalseDawn]

I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but I am sure that the robots.txt file is not the answer.

 

If I were you, I'd concentrate less on your search engine rankings and more on relevant titles, headers, metas, urls and writing as much quality content as possible.

[nicedeals]

I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but I am sure that the robots.txt file is not the answer.

 

If I were you, I'd concentrate less on your search engine rankings and more on relevant titles, headers, metas, urls and writing as much quality content as possible.

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As you can appreciate, its quite hard to specify 100% unique meta tags for my products as I sell car parts and every car has a bumper, bonent, mirror etc. so although the make and model title may change, the parts stay the same and I do need to use them for the search engine to pick them up.

 

Is it possible to add meta tags to each and every product? with the contribution I added, I can only add tags to the categories..

 

As for the robots.txt file, i'm sure if the main categories were disallowed and the spider was forced to read the lowest subcategories only, the page indexing will rank higher as at the moment my lowest subcategories are being ommitted from results in google and not showing atall in msn

[FalseDawn]

I believe a contribution called "header tags controller" will allow you to add unique meta for every product.

 

As for the robots.txt file, i'm sure if the main categories were disallowed and the spider was forced to read the lowest subcategories only, the page indexing will rank higher as at the moment my lowest subcategories are being ommitted from results in google and not showing atall in msn

 

I'm not quite sure where you got this idea from, but it's wrong.

 

If you require your subcategries to have a higher rank in relation to the rest of your site, you need to change the URL to be "nearer the root". The Ultimate SEO URL contribution may well help you in this case if you are not already using it.

[nicedeals]

I thought it might not be as simple as that...thanks for your help..

No I'm not using the two contributions you mentioned here.

I ahve something like 3500 products so it's going to be quite a mission adding all the tags to each product but i suppose it's worth it in the end.

believe google is ommitting my lower subcategory pages as it probably thinks the meta tags are toom alike to be classified separately.

Anyways.. I'll give those two contributions a try and get back to you.

:thumbsup:

[WisTex]

Many search engines totally ignore the meta tags since they are subject to so much abuse. They now look at the title of the page, content on the page, how many quality websites are linking to you, What those links are labeled as, whether or not your are listed in the Open Directory, etc.

 

I would worry less about tricks and more about having really good text and descriptions on your pages. The search engines eat that stuff up.

 

I have one website that appears in the first 5 listings on all major search engines, and all we did was have great content and wordy descriptions, as well as get listed in the Open Directory, which requires a human to approve your website as a quality one. We actually did the OPPOSITE of almost every single search engine optimization trick there is, and we still ranked highly because of our content.