Pouli Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Hello, I have an osC site that has been running for more than 6 months now but that does not get indexed very well by search engines. For instance, my main page has a Google PR of 0. I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to optimize it, but without improving much my situation. I am using the spider session killer and have different tags and titles for all pages, and so on. I have tried to implement pretty much all tips I have found in these forums. I am now thinking that these problems may be related to the use of several languages on my site: My site has 2 languages implemented, namely French and English. The language parameter appears in the address only when you switch languages. Therefore, all pages have 2 different versions with the same address. I am wondering how spiders like googlebot deal with that and if this might be a cause for poor indexing. I have made some research on other osC sites and so far, I have noticed that all sites that I visited that have several languages implemented also have a PR0 and are not deeply indexed. Is this a known problem with osCommerce? Are there some ways to circumvent it like forcing the use of "&language=..." in the page address for some or all languages? Any help would be highly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouli Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 For those who might be concerned by multiple language issues: After doing some research on other sites, the issue I described in my previous post appears to be a serious limitation of osCommerce if you want to run a multilingual site: Google and other SE cannot index pages in different languages if they have the same URL (which makes sense!). So, pages in your default language should get indexed ok but not in other languages. To bypass the problem, one would need to find a way to change the url based on the language. I've done this quite easily in a phpnuke site, but it does not seem that easy with osC. If anyone has ever done this or has any hint on a way of doing it, I would be very interested. Michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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