Top Listings on Yahoo/ Poor Listings on Google

[jont]

You can set a redirect in the .htaccess to redirect from old_page.html to new_page.html ... do a search on the internet or on this forum for exact coding and guidance .. it is very simple to set up and implement

[Bun]

You can set a redirect in the .htaccess to redirect from old_page.html to new_page.html ... do a search on the internet or on this forum for exact coding and guidance .. it is very simple to set up and implement

Cheers jont, I'll take a look at that

[Bun]

Using a .htaccess file to create a 301 redirect......is that what we're talking about here jont?

After this is done would it just then be a case of waiting for a search engine to catch up with the new addresses.....then I could remove the redirects?

Sorry if this all sounds very simple....but I've never had to do this before

[Duncan Rounding]

You might want to read my recent thread here:
http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=20693

[BPJSURF]

redirecting

Bun,
you can use .htaccess assuming your on a linux apache server. There are several comands, you can set up a generic catchall for all your old pages where any page request made to the server can be directed to another page. If you have old pages that are no longer in your catalog you can either direct them to your home page or push the browser directly to another specfied page.

You can look in the google cash of your site. Locate any pages which google has indexed but are no longer active on your domain. Then create a redirect in .htaccess file and specify where you want the browser to be directed too. This can be done page by page or site wide.

do a google search on.htaccess to learn the command and how to use it.

Brian

[Ghome1971]

Thanks for the fantastic advice.

Okay, to make sure I understand:

You recommend that I have thumbnail section pages and single products per page. This means that for example I list on the left hand menu "personalised Kids T -Shirts. If the customer clicks on this they see all the product within this category (just small images no details). Then if they click on the image they are taken to the product specific page. Is this correct?

I will ensure that h1 tags, images names, page titles, keywords, product names and description all tie in to just one keyword phrase.

Geraldine

[BPJSURF]

Your statement is correct.

HAve a look here for a working example:

http://soccerpro.com/acatalog/Match_Balls.html
to do this in Actinic you just make a section using the products description as the section name and then use a thumbnail image. Add the single product into the section in the Actinic catalog tree.

The reason for a single product per page is focus. You can merchandise and market a specific product much more effectively by having a single product per page. You can refine the page title, meta tags and description to better market the product.

If you use pay-per-click marketing you can direct the ad campaigns directly to the purchase page of a single product. For merchants who typically direct their PPC campaigns to the home page, they will achive a 50% increase in sales from PPC by pointing the adverts directly to a buy page. This is a proven fact.

Putting the proper tags on the proper netquotvars is very important. Marketing to a single keyword phrase will help and then implementing google sitemaps to get your pages craweled and indexed will help as well. We use a tool that does google sitemap and yahoo sitemap from a single output file and it works great.

I would be veryinterested to hear how your serps and results change after six weeks time.

Enjoy

Brian

[Bun]

If you use pay-per-click marketing you can direct the ad campaigns directly to the purchase page of a single product. For merchants who typically direct their PPC campaigns to the home page, they will achive a 50% increase in sales from PPC by pointing the adverts directly to a buy page. This is a proven fact.

And I think this is another problem I'm going to face in the next few weeks. I'm in the process of setting up an affiliate package and I've just sent an email asking how to set up links to specific products...........bearing in mind I've have a number of them per page.

I've now got a feeling that I know what the answer will be

[Ghome1971]

I used GSite Crawler to create my site map. Is this okay?

[Bun]

I used GSite Crawler to create my site map. Is this okay?

I've used that only a few days ago......everything was fine

[completerookie]

Its been a couple of months sice the posting, it would be interesting if you could update the thread with your thoughts about "moving up the rankings following the implementation of the advice"

kev

[Ghome1971]

No it's only been 1 day! I think you may have looked at my joining date.

I have justed started working on the reconfiguration which I hope to have done by the end of the weekend.

I will keep you all updated with my progress

[completerookie]

ahhh.
when I wake up, I'm going to be dangerous !

[Ghome1971]

Actually your name has given me a new idea for a kids Tshirt!

[completerookie]

where do I go to get the copyright on the name, I know I'll have to move fast, Perhaps I'll be in line for a bit of commission.

should I go for a TradeMark, Registered Design, or what ?

decisions, descisions, descisions......