Re: Google Problem

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 52940
interpreted = N
texte = oh and one other thing. change the link on your search results page from: [De tails] to: 19 32 Ford 2-Door Custom Convertible google pays a lot of attention to the contents of links, heading tags and title tags... so the work you have done with the tags in the vehicle detail page is cool. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Simpson" <andrew.simpson@blackpepper.co.nz> To: "WebDNA Talk" <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Google Problem > what you need to do... well in my opinion anyway - is this. > > Take this page for example... > http://www.mecumauction.com/searchresults.html?CART=1063751192297389&LSORT=2&SEARCH_DATA=Ford > > This is generated dynamically after doing a search by selecting only the > make of car... in this case, ford. This page would be absolute dynamite if > google could see if but it can't cause there are no links to it. > > What you should do is make a "site map" of all your Car Make search results > pages. This can be done by either writing them out statically and linking to > them eg /ford.html or just linking to this page (above) and passing the the > name of the brand to search. > > Writing them out statically is quite easy because you already have the code. > in fact you could probably just wrap the searchresults.html page in a > [writefile file=/carmakes/[SEARCH_DATA].html][/writefile] context and it > would do all the work for you. > > Once you have your "site map" which is just a fancy word for a page full of > static links to pages within your website, submit the address of the sitemap > to google. And that should get the robot trawling your site like nothing > else. :) > > There is NO TRICK to search engines. if your site is user friendly it will > also be search engine friendly. you have the content - thats the hard part > taken care of. > > hth > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christian F. Gurney" <cfgurney@kginterdev.com> > To: "WebDNA Talk" <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:03 AM > Subject: Google Problem > > > For the past few months we've trying to get the site www.mecumauction.com > configured so that Google will crawl dynamically generated web pages. Taking > a sheet from the StoreBuilder playbook, we established a function where we > create a series of static pages that link to one-another and have a refresh > statement and linked the first page of these static pages to the home page. > > We still cannot get the individual car pages to show up within a google > search. As an example the first static page is for "Mecum Auction - > MN0603-9312 1964 Ford T-Bird" and a Google search on "1964 Ford T-Bird > Mecum" will yield nothing, as will searching for the GUID "MN0603-9312". > > Since our web logs show that 75%+ of searches that result in visitors coming > to the web site are from Google, we think it might be a good idea for us to > get this resolved. We also run about 3 dozen other sites wherein discovering > the "Google trick" would really be a benefit. We're just stumped after a lot > of tests and changes. > > Christian F. Gurney > Managing Director > KG InterDev, LLC > cfgurney@kginterdev.com > (515) 255-9351 > (515) 229-1969 Wireless > (309) 418-1199 eFAX > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk-off@talk.smithmicro.com> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > <WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk-off@talk.smithmicro.com> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk-off@talk.smithmicro.com> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:<br /><br /> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td>    </td><td> <ol type="1"> <li> Re: Google Problem ( "Andrew Simpson" <andrew.simpson@blackpepper.co.nz> 2003)</li> <li><a href="page.dna?numero=52939"> Re: Google Problem</a> ( "Andrew Simpson" <andrew.simpson@blackpepper.co.nz> 2003)</li> <li><a href="page.dna?numero=52936"> Google Problem</a> ( "Christian F. Gurney" <cfgurney@kginterdev.com> 2003)</li> </ol> </td></tr></table> oh and one other thing. change the link on your search results page from: [<a href="auctions/lot_detail.html?CART=1063751192297389&LOT_ID=KC0903-11415">De tails</a>] to: <a href="auctions/lot_detail.html?CART=1063751192297389&LOT_ID=KC0903-11415">19 32 Ford 2-Door Custom Convertible</a> google pays a lot of attention to the contents of links, heading tags and title tags... so the work you have done with the <title> tags in the vehicle detail page is cool. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Simpson" <andrew.simpson@blackpepper.co.nz> To: "WebDNA Talk" <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Google Problem > what you need to do... well in my opinion anyway - is this. > > Take this page for example... > http://www.mecumauction.com/searchresults.html?CART=1063751192297389&LSORT=2&SEARCH_DATA=Ford > > This is generated dynamically after doing a search by selecting only the > make of car... in this case, ford. This page would be absolute dynamite if > google could see if but it can't cause there are no links to it. > > What you should do is make a "site map" of all your Car Make search results > pages. This can be done by either writing them out statically and linking to > them eg /ford.html or just linking to this page (above) and passing the the > name of the brand to search. > > Writing them out statically is quite easy because you already have the code. > in fact you could probably just wrap the searchresults.html page in a > [writefile file=/carmakes/[SEARCH_DATA].html][/writefile] context and it > would do all the work for you. > > Once you have your "site map" which is just a fancy word for a page full of > static links to pages within your website, submit the address of the sitemap > to google. And that should get the robot trawling your site like nothing > else. :) > > There is NO TRICK to search engines. if your site is user friendly it will > also be search engine friendly. you have the content - thats the hard part > taken care of. > > hth > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christian F. Gurney" <cfgurney@kginterdev.com> > To: "WebDNA Talk" <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:03 AM > Subject: Google Problem > > > For the past few months we've trying to get the site www.mecumauction.com > configured so that Google will crawl dynamically generated web pages. Taking > a sheet from the StoreBuilder playbook, we established a function where we > create a series of static pages that link to one-another and have a refresh > statement and linked the first page of these static pages to the home page. > > We still cannot get the individual car pages to show up within a google > search. As an example the first static page is for "Mecum Auction - > MN0603-9312 1964 Ford T-Bird" and a Google search on "1964 Ford T-Bird > Mecum" will yield nothing, as will searching for the GUID "MN0603-9312". > > Since our web logs show that 75%+ of searches that result in visitors coming > to the web site are from Google, we think it might be a good idea for us to > get this resolved. We also run about 3 dozen other sites wherein discovering > the "Google trick" would really be a benefit. We're just stumped after a lot > of tests and changes. > > Christian F. Gurney > Managing Director > KG InterDev, LLC > cfgurney@kginterdev.com > (515) 255-9351 > (515) 229-1969 Wireless > (309) 418-1199 eFAX > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk-off@talk.smithmicro.com> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > <WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk-off@talk.smithmicro.com> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>. 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