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Google will crawl all but one should have a robots.txt file placed in webroot directory just to help.  If you go to google and in search field type: site:linuxcdshop.com you will see what google has indexed in a matter of days.  My site went live on Dec 6 2007 and it has even indexed old urls I had..  Google likes this cart and will follow everything.  Also do a search in this forum for sitemap.xml and you will see code that I have done to help google.  Open a Google webmaster account and place sitemap in there..  sitemaps really help.  I wish my sitemap code could index a bit more like category urls but I am no coder just a sometimes good editor..  

Go to http://www.linuxcdshop.com/sitemap.xml.gz to see my sitemap.

Hope this helps

Last edited by Perkster (12-13-2007 19:01:05)

I just did a search for my domain on google and nothing showed up.  I submitted the url to google about a week ago.  Should I be concerned?

Your sitemap code looks awesome and overwhelming.

Very cool looking script from that site.  I might just buy it to have a look..

Did you buy it after Mike? I had it installed and working in about 10 mins.

Google seems to have crawled most of my pages (although it needs to get rid of old ones which it isn't purging) but still isn't displaying them, despite them being pretty keyword heavy (I don't think overly so).

Any idea?

Thank you!!

Emma :-)

Hi Mike,

That's what I did, so I know it's crawled me (although many pages are out of date).

But, it's just not showing me on organic listings - at least in a decent position - on important things like "organic cotton baby clothes".  Any ideas what I can do to improve my ranking as I have done everything I can think of!!!!!

Thank you!
Emma

i know you can get a google sitemaps account and upload your sitemap, (i have one), but is there a way to do it with yahoo and msn?  I'll be implementing my cart in a couple weeks and would like to avoid the ton of 404 errors i'll get (7 year old site, lots of established links with old urls)

James...

Hi

Perkster wrote:

Google will crawl all but one should have a robots.txt file placed in webroot directory just to help.

What should a robots.txt file look like?   A coded example would be a great help.

Thanx

good site " Dave " thx

makesachange wrote:

I was just looking into this again and I'm wondering whether the reason that my rankings have dropped is this.

Most of the pages that Google has listed for me, go to pages which are no longer there.  But, there's no 404 error, but there is a dynamically generated page from CCP saying that there are no items to display:

http://www.makesachange.co.uk/gbu0-cats … .html.html

Now, the Fluffle (nappy) is one we no longer sell, so this is actually correct.  However, there are other items which I have changed the product name of to attempt to improve Google listings, meaning that the original product is still available but under a different name, therefore a different URL.

But, Google won't know this, it will just get to the page, see no text on it to do with the keyword, therefore drop me down the rankings.

What's the solution?  Replace this page with a basic 404 so Google drops it?  I would prefer CCP to be able to dynamically take the customer to a "similar sounding" page.  Is this possible?

Some of these items have not been available for over 6 months and I'm sure that Google is not that long changing its database.

Emma

Use an htaccess file and mod_rewrite rules to redirect your old product urls to the new product urls with a 301 permanent redirect directive and Google will purge the old urls from their index.