Tips from an Industry Leader about SEO + Shopping Carts
Hi all, I just want to give a heads up to a good, brief post from one of the leading Internet Marketers/SEOs who is blogging today - Michael Gray. There seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation around here about SEO + e-commerce, in particular site architecture/URL structure. I have previou...
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Re: SEO help
Traffic has nothing to do with the store script you use. SEO only helps in making things human-readable these days. But you need to have unique products, search engine inclusion, and high rankings Search google for one of your products. Set the results to 100 per page and see how many pages deep yo...
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Re: SEO Module Error - Duplicating URL's
Documenting some of the history of this issue:
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5764
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Re: New to Open Cart - Some Questions on Feature Set
I still haven't done anything in Hebrew with it yet. Maybe you can post some code and we can take a look. Jump to postmcaldas wrote:Hi babel, I also develop in hebrew, i tried to translate the code to rtl, but i'm having some difficulties with the Theme. Could u do something??
- Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:52 am
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Re: SEO duplicated content
301 redirect ok solution, but preferable to stop the duplication before documents are parsed. That's one side of the problem -although I don't understand parsing as I'm a hack :) The other side is people typing or linking irrelevant urls like: http://mysite.com http://mysite.com/ http://www.mysite....
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Re: SEO duplicated content
Has anyone written a decent: 1. robots.txt file to handle duplicate content, 2. 301 redirect in the HTACCESS file to handle all the possible Canconical URLs (more multiples of duplicate content), by redirecting everything to http://www.site.com/ or whatever your url choice is, http://www.mattcutts....
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Re: SEO duplicated content
Franz, I managed to avoid (or reduce) duplicated contents in OpenCart here: http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6677 In my solution, I have to choose that product link is not prefixed by any attributes (category, manufacturer), and suffixes (for example in the search result; I don't ...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
Great, another post from the google webmaster blog today about duplicate content issues: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/reunifying-duplicate-content-on-your.html Quoting (emphasis mine): Having duplicate content on your website is generally not problematic, though it can make it ...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
I like how you completely skirted round my point that pages with no links or pagerank feature on Googles front page often. forget about pagerank. You are completely correct that a page with no link, or more specifically in the context of the thread, a URI that is never used as a link, will not be i...
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Re: SEF URL does not rewrite the home link?
Still no one wanna discuss about this with me? It is good you are trying for solutions. I really hope Daniel will implement an integrated solution in future releases, but I am not sure the reality of dup. content issues in general is really understand around these parts yet. I tried to provide some...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
And any, back to the core of the discussion, if there is still any doubt that duplicate content is an issue, Google just now announced yet another way to deal with dup. content issues at the index level: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-parameter-handling-tool-helps-with.html T...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
My post was not directed completely towards you tower and yes I am completely aware of the fact that Google and other engines put a lot of emphasis on links....but this mainly goes towards Page Rank which if you are an SEO on the pulse is a dying function. Google is moving away from the importance ...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
My post was not directed completely towards you tower and yes I am completely aware of the fact that Google and other engines put a lot of emphasis on links....but this mainly goes towards Page Rank which if you are an SEO on the pulse is a dying function. Google is moving away from the importance ...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
Balls. Google will not 'punish' you for duplicate content on your own site or even if its on a few other places online. Matt Cutts says you can have upto 3 duplicate articles on your own site. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/duplicate-content-question/ You 'SEO Gurus' should just chill, if you are us...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
i think if the titles are the same it would ony choose one. No, there is no need to guess. This issue is one of the most documented in SEO. My post above gives an outline. The bigger a site is, and the more links that point to pages (internal site links and links from other domains) that are dups, ...
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Re: SEO duplicated content
These comments are not true. Duplicate content is potentially a huge problem on a website (not talking about dup. content cross domain, talking about dup. content on a single domain). Saying "it is not very important which one Google indexes anyway" is completely missing the what and why o...
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Re: New to Open Cart - Some Questions on Feature Set
I see what happened. I unzipped on my desktop and copied from there to my localhost directory via drag and drop. Because of the . prefix, this method doesn't copy the hidden file. Renaming to ht.access allowed me to copy over from my desktop without opening terminal.
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Re: New to Open Cart - Some Questions on Feature Set
it does have a .htaccess file maybe your server or ftp program is set to not show hidden files. download again and look in the upload folder. Daniel Hello, I use transmit on Mac and it shows hidden files by default. I am on localhost, and I can see a .DS_Store file in there, and I can see the .htac...
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Re: New to Open Cart - Some Questions on Feature Set
Ok, so, thanks for the welcome then ... :) ... and for looking at my questions a bit more deeply. I have done my test install, and started by looking at the url rewriting. I see how it works with "seo keywords" etc., but I also see that the install has no .htaccess (or htaccess.txt) file. ...
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Re: New to Open Cart - Some Questions on Feature Set
What's a computer? Do I need one to run OpenStore? Will the internet come to me or do I have to find it? How do I copy files to a folder? How do I unzip a zip file? I typed in my name into the address bar, but I guess I don't have a site? Is this how you guys welcome people here? Anyway, I do know ...
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