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I'd like to see Google dance for me!


wwwclaes

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Posted

Well, maybe not ;-) But I would at least like to see Google

spider more pages than default.php which has been the

case since I registered the store a few months ago...

 

We have User Tracking installed and have seen many times

now that Google only hits the main page and since we

seldom or never appear on Google I'm suspecting it excludes

us for some reason or simply does not traverse the site

for some reason. For instance, if I search for a rare

combination of words that appear on our first page,

Google reports no hits at all. Shouldn't we come up then

no matter our page ranking?

 

We have the Meta Tags contribution installed (although its

use for Google seems limited), an All products page with

(hidden) links from the header and footer. We have also

installed the SID killer that is based on an array of

User Agents. However, I'm not sure if that one works but

let's leave that to another thread maybe...

 

Anyway, I believe something is not working as it should

and don't know how to continue. A high search ranking

is vital of course. I would be greatful if someone knows

what might be wrong. For those interested in looking at

the site, look in my personal profile.

 

Thanks!

/Claes

Posted

site?

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Posted

Can a reply BE quicker than that? :-) The site is...

 

www.nutritionstore.se

 

It's in Swedish.

 

/Claes

Posted

And by the way... can a site BE slower than ours? :-(

Sorry about that, I'll have to ask our web host about

that issue. Maybe Google just gets bored on us...

Posted

Yeah, something's seriously wrong with your site. I'm on a cable modem, and it's taken well over a minute so far.

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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.

Posted

It loaded fine for me, so I ran it through submitplus-

Loading time results for: http://www.nutritionstore.se/

 

Loading test content results

Number of graphics/scripts: 45

Total graphics size: 60663 bytes

Total HTML size: 21234 bytes

Total page size: 81897 bytes

Load time by modem speed

Modem speed: Download time:

14.4k 49.51 seconds

28.8k 26.75 seconds

56k 15.59 seconds

ISDN (128k) 9.12 seconds

T1 (1.44 MB) 4.47 seconds

 

Warning!: Your loading time is not bad... However, a top performing web site will load under 14 seconds at 28.8k.

can't help with google though. :dontgetit:

Posted

Your site loaded very fast for me (DSL).

To improve speed, you can turn off counting in 'application_top.php'. Also, try creating indexes on your tables if you haven't. If it's still slow for people, talk to your hosting service. There's no reason for your site to lag.

You might want to consider getting listed in directories like Yahoo! and ODP.

 

And get as many quality links as possible!!!

Posted

I plugged www.nutritionstore.se into www.google.com. No luck.

 

I plugged it into www2.google.com and www3.google.com and you showed up at both. Maybe your on your way to hitting the main site.

 

HTH,

 

Mark

Posted

OK question.. I went to google typed in wholesalemn.com (my website) and it came up with 1 result but poor description. Something to do with my cart! Any Idea?

Posted

WholesaleMN: Regarding poor description, see this post:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php...ighlight=google

 

About the speed, I contacted the web host and they are migrating to a faster connection this week, so my post just happened to coincide with a temporary interruption at the host. It works better (right) now.

 

And last but not the least, I hope but don't think that I will show up any better at Google unless I change something. Google does in fact only parse my default.php according to the logs, and I can't find anything but the text on that page. Thanks for your help so far, all ideas are appreciated.

Posted

Thanks Burt.... You are of great help :D

Posted

Well, so far I have (a modest amount of) four external links that I am aware of to the site. This is of course something I have to work on, and thanks for the discussion link!

 

Though I'm not sure this is the reason why Google won't go further into my site than "default.php"... Ah well, I'm at the edge of giving up... Damn you Google!

Posted

Have you tried the contribution that lists all your products on one page, for google's benefit? You could then submit that page for it to crawl - might encourage it to go further.

Posted

Yes, I have allprods.php installed (and linked to from header and footer as suggested). But currently not of much use since Google won't follow my links. Though I haven't tried submitting that specific page to Google, just did it, thanks for the tip.

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