Search engins

[mac]

is there a way (a CODE???) where the SEARCH ENGINS pick up the model numbers of all my products??
If no code, how can i achive this???
For example, i want to come up when someone in the yahoo search looks for model P5121-16

I have many products. how do i make it so that search engins pick it up?

thanks.

[Mike Hughes]

In this case the 'model number' is what is called a 'keyword' in search engine optimisation (SEO).

Read through these forums and also check out webmasterworld and any of the many SEO forums for more details.

Mike

[mac]

I was hoping not to put model numbers as keywords, since there are so many of them.
Is there a way that I can creat a Page that includes all the model numbers and have the search engins pick it up? and use this code so it is hidden from my customers?

!!<<noscript>all products</noscript>>!!

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic is good for this as it generates static HTML pages that can be easily indexed by a search engine.

If your "model number" is visible on your generated web-site then search engines will be able to index it. So you should either show that information as part of the product name / description or, alternatively use it as the Product Reference (see View / Business Settings / Options).

From then on it's a matter of getting the various search engines to look at your site. And Mike's post above will help.

Norman

[mac]

If I want all the model numbers of my prodcuts be picked up by the search engins, so when someone for exp: in yahoo, searches for sps-500 (which is 1 of my products), what is the best way to achive this, besides putting the model numbers in the Mets Tags?

In "business settings, options, misellaneous options: do i check that box or leave it unchecked?

[pinbrook]

Norman has given you the solution

If your "model number" is visible on your generated web-site then search engines will be able to index it. So you should either show that information as part of the product name / description or, alternatively use it as the Product Reference (see View / Business Settings / Options).

search engineswill pick up your model numbers from the body text of the page

Very few engines read meta tags so this is not the way to optimise

[rmladden]

Most search engines will treat the '-' as a word separator. Not good to search on model numbers with a '-' in it.

[NormanRouxel]

Bob has something there.

In my massive one site test, I tried searching Google for abc-123 and it seems to show up sites containing abc 123 as well as some that only contain abc-123. So it seems like Google indeed treats a hyphen as a space. I got a pretty big list as treating a hyphen as a space will return those sites containing abc and 123, not necessarily near each other.

Interestingly searching for "abc-123" with the quotes returns a much smaller list (only abc-123 and abc<single space>123).

So your hyphenated part numbers will be found through Google but there will be extra results for the sub-bits. Lets hope the proximity of the keywords counts to help bring your part numbers to near the top.

Norman