SEO Help (urgent) - Actinic V11

[sachin]

Hello All,

I would like some SEO Help with my actinic Website.

Website: parts4mobiles.com

When I look into google, i find formatting codes as well in the excerpts and sometimes the price list.
I cant understand how to give a particular excerpt to a product.

Detailed Suggestions would help me in knowing actinic better.

[Duncan Rounding]

Can you give an example of a Google search that returns code in the results?

[Mike Hughes]

I suspect it's mostly because your HTML coding is in a bit of a mess.

Here's an example from your 'slip in pouch' page.

<a href="iPhone-4-Hard-Plastic-Cover-1.html" target="_self">
<img border="0" alt="<span style='font-size: 11px;'>iPhone 4 Slip-In Pouch</span>" src="iPhone_4_Slip-in_Pouch.jpg" border="0" />
</a>

???

In this case it's probably you trying to put a style on the image alt text.

The best thing to do is validate your html pages and fix the errors.

Mike

[sachin]

Can you give an example of a Google search that returns code in the results?

Hello Duncan,

If I look my website pages in google and go to page 4-5 , there is one link
'SAMSUNG GT-S5260 MOBILE PHONE'
URL: http://parts4mobiles.com/acatalog/SA...ILE_PHONE.html

I don't understand why such a code appears when I mostly use only html formatting style to increase font size and sometimes color.

[meden]

I can't find the link you're referring to but I found another one with a similar problem. As Mike already suggested the problem seems to stem from incorrectly formed html - you have a style tag applied to an alt attribute (this is just wrong on many levels)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...w=1400&bih=806

If you look at the 4th link down for the iPhone digitizer you see

<span style='font-size: 11px;'>

within the description, if you follow the link and search the page source for that html you find

<img border="0" alt="<span style='font-size: 11px;'>iPHONE 4 Digitizer Touch Screen - Black</span>" src="iphone4gfrontlens.jpg" border="0" /></a>

That particular fragment of html appears on the same place on several different pages btw

[sachin]

Thanks for the valuable input.

Basically, in the 'Short Description' field of a product, I use the formating style to highlight the text.

Is this a right way to do it as i only require some part of text to be highlighted.

That is why the img alt comes with the html tags.

Any solution to avoid that ???

[NormanRouxel]

Sachin,

Formatting the Short Description with inline HTML is a bad thing to do. This description is used in the Order, Customer Email and may also be passed to accounting software. Embedding HTML into it will probably make it unreadable in the email and cause other problems.

If you really need to enhance your text, only do this to the Full Description as this only appears on the product pages and isn't used elsewhere.

[sachin]

Thanks Norman,

It is a valuable suggestion, i see now why my google results were behaving strangely