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:[Details]to:1932 Ford 2-Door Custom Convertiblegoogle pays a lot of attention to the contents of links, heading tags andtitle tags... so the work you have done with the tags in the vehicledetail 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 AMSubject: 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 searchresults> pages. This can be done by either writing them out statically and linkingto> them eg /ford.html or just linking to this page (above) and passing thethe> name of the brand to search.>> Writing them out statically is quite easy because you already have thecode.> 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 fullof> static links to pages within your website, submit the address of thesitemap> 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 arefresh> statement and linked the first page of these static pages to the homepage.>> 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 visitorscoming> to the web site are from Google, we think it might be a good idea for usto> get this resolved. We also run about 3 dozen other sites whereindiscovering> the "Google trick" would really be a benefit. We're just stumped after alot> 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: <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:[<ahref="auctions/lot_detail.html?CART=1063751192297389&LOT_ID=KC0903-11415">Details</a>]to:<ahref="auctions/lot_detail.html?CART=1063751192297389&LOT_ID=KC0903-11415">1932 Ford 2-Door Custom Convertible</a>google pays a lot of attention to the contents of links, heading tags andtitle tags... so the work you have done with the <title> tags in the vehicledetail 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 AMSubject: 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 searchresults> pages. This can be done by either writing them out statically and linkingto> them eg /ford.html or just linking to this page (above) and passing thethe> name of the brand to search.>> Writing them out statically is quite easy because you already have thecode.> 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 fullof> static links to pages within your website, submit the address of thesitemap> 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 arefresh> statement and linked the first page of these static pages to the homepage.>> 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 visitorscoming> to the web site are from Google, we think it might be a good idea for usto> get this resolved. We also run about 3 dozen other sites whereindiscovering> the "Google trick" would really be a benefit. We're just stumped after alot> 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/ "Andrew Simpson" <andrew.simpson@blackpepper.co.nz> <a href="page.dna?numero=169"> DOWNLOAD WEBDNA NOW! </a> <h3>Top Articles:</h3> <a href="page.dna?numero=55">Talk List</a> The WebDNA community talk-list is the best place to get some help: several hundred extremely proficient programmers with an excellent knowledge of WebDNA and an excellent spirit will deliver all the tips and tricks you can imagine... <h3>Related Readings:</h3> <a href="page.dna?numero=110296">[WebDNA] HMAC-SHA1 Encryption (2013)</a> <a href="page.dna?numero=10777">Download URL & access on the fly ? 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