Google - ranking and page registering

[MASTERforge]

I am building quite a lot of information that is contained on the extended info page. I was wondering how google dealt with these extended info pages. Whether it registers them well and adding info to this section will have a large impact on ranking?

Its good for my customers to see the extended info but I wanted other V8 users experiences and opinions.

I have noticed that my 'full listing of products' page has been registered and ranks well already but my other pages are still in the dark.

[MASTERforge]

Ive just been checking the depth that google has indexed my site.

I can say that comparing my old site to the actinic catalog has proved quite interesting. It indexes it really well. For example the word twistcore blade embedded in a page, ranks highly.

I don't know the mechanics behind it, but I have noticed that google responds to my site much better and quicker now than with my previous site.

[RuralWeb]

See - http://community.actinic.com/showthr...t=good+news+v8

[NormanRouxel]

The extended info popup pages are accessed via a JavaScript routine and it's unlikely that Google can follow this to index them.

If you want these to be indexed I worked out a way to make this link followable by such robots while still working as a JavaScript popup.

See http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=5145 for the original V6 post.

Basically Actinic generates popup links via code like

<A HREF="javascript:ShowPopUp('info%5f7%2ehtml',400,400);">Click here for larger image...</A>

however with a bit of tweaking we can generate

<A HREF="info%5f7%2ehtml" onclick="ShowPopUp(this.href,400,400);return false;">Click here for larger image...</A>

This should still work in V8. However you'd do it as follows. In the Library / Layouts / Extended Information Links / Standard Extended Information Links, look for

      <a href="javascript:ShowPopUp('<actinic:variable name="ExtendedInfoPageEncoded" />',<actinic:variable name="ExtInfoWindowWidth" />,<actinic:variable name="ExtInfoWindowHeight" />);">

replace with

      <a href="<actinic:variable name="ExtendedInfoPageEncoded" />" onclick="ShowPopUp(this.href,<actinic:variable name="ExtInfoWindowWidth" />,<actinic:variable name="ExtInfoWindowHeight" />);return false;">

This is for the textual type popup link, but it should be also be possible to wrap it around the product image (make the same change within Design / Library / Layouts / Product Image / Standard Product Image).

[RuralWeb]

The extended info popup pages are accessed via a JavaScript routine and it's ulikely that Google can follow this to index them

This imy main concern about using the extended info as the main product page ie it is effectively blocked from google when the whole point of it is to help with SE rankings. Im not convinced it is the way forward with V8

[RuralWeb]

but my other pages are still in the dark.

See above posts

[NormanRouxel]

My tweak above makes the Popup pages indexable by Google.

I also just checked the "Extended Info In Same Page" generated code, and this is also a normal link that Google can follow.

[RuralWeb]

"Extended Info In Same Page" generated code, and this is also a normal link that Google can follow.

Nice one norm - Ive not had time to check it out in any deail yet. It will be nice to see a site that uses it fully indexed - anyone see one out there?

[NormanRouxel]

If you have a lot of info on these pages that isn't anywhere else it would be worth doing.

Also Actinic is quite clever in that the popup page's Close Window button will actually take you to the home page of the site if the window wasn't opened as a popup - i.e. directly fom a search engines list of links. So someone getting to a popup page via Google won't end up with nowhere to go. It may be worth renaming this to be something like Back to store to make it more meaningful.

[pinbrook]

It will be nice to see a site that uses it fully indexed - anyone see one out there?

i've been using this fix on surf-wax and all my other sites for ages, it works well, all extended info gets indexed

[RuralWeb]

all extended info gets indexed

Thanks jo.

[MASTERforge]

It pays to ask questions!

Wow what a little gem i've uncovered! Thanks people for sharing this info. It has now enabled 60-70 percent of my site to be indexed.

The majority of my info is in the extended page and its precious to my website so I needed it to be indexed.

Are there any other precious gems to share about turning a site into a turbo super google friendly monster shopping cart?!!

Please share!

[RuralWeb]

It has now enabled 60-70 percent of my site to be indexed.

True - but out of 102 pages indexed only 45 are available for searching the others are in the supplimental results - so in effect you have only 35% of your site indexed.

[MASTERforge]

True - but out of 102 pages indexed only 45 are available for searching the others are in the supplimental results - so in effect you have only 35% of your site indexed.

Is that specific to my site???

Is the a way that I can remedy this problem?

[RuralWeb]

Is the a way that I can remedy this problem?

search the forum its a live thread.