SEO -basics question

[leehack]

If you must use the junky extended info pages, then your overall template needs adding to your extended info layout and you must have them open in the same window. Anything less and they are plain rubbish. I have managed for 3 years to avoid them up until last week where I had to use them, but the above is what I did and they are now seamless pages within the site and welcome to be indexed. If you put people up a cul-de-sac on your website, there's only one thing going to happen. 'Money left on the table' as you call it.

[Paul Bulpit]

This is the problem when using Extended Info Pages, especially ones where there is no navigation.

Customers cannot get to your site from these pages

Can you not use robots.txt to prevent /info_*.html from being indexed?



.

[leehack]

I guess you could do yes, but if they have nothing useful on them, why are they being used in the first place could be the counter?

[bamboo]

I have 'replace all info pages with the jqzoom image tool' at number four on my to do list so all the extended info pages will soon be gone.

as far as I can tell this is the only one I know of that opens in the same window and the info pages only exist at all to give the customer a bigger image of the product.
All the others open in their own window which leaves the product page still in view.

Still haven't a clue what's different about this one or why Google/Actinic or whatever is adding the page title of its parent page into it in the search results.

[leehack]

Extended info pages do not have some of the standard seo hooks to fill out Derek, so they inherit from the product instead. That's one of the issues with them.

[bamboo]

Agreed but what is odd is that this seems to be the only one exhibiting this behaviour

[leehack]

Hmm that's strange i agree, there were steps in the past to put back in via variables the things that were missing, did you get involved with these at some stage in the past? or is it linked to the page in question having empty fields anywhere so actinic is falling back to default settings of some kind?

[bamboo]

Buggered if I know. Until earlier today I didn't realise there was a problem. I'll have a look.

[bamboo]

Still at it!
I've checked everything against an info page on another product & it's identical.
I've now added some text to the bottle bag info page and am trying to upload the dam thing but it keeps stalling at the 'creating remote directory' stage

UPDATE:
Finally!
The image now opens in it's own pop up, like all the others but the text doesn't appear

I'm guessing it's time for a purge & refresh to clear out what seems to be a 'stuck page'.

[pinbrook]

I'm guessing it's time for a purge & refresh to clear out what seems to be a 'stuck page'.

The quickest way to get rid of a stuck page or pages, is to ftp to the site, remove ALL html pages, then upload.

As we all know actinic does not remove old product pages etc it just adds new stuff, so if you do add/edit/remove products on a regular basis, this is a quick fix that takes 10 mins and will keep it clean. Additionally google likes to see recent changes on a site, so if you refresh your html pages once a month for example you may see pages that contain products that don't change much improve.

That said, a purge and refresh is useful every now and again too

your chosen solution depends on circumstances at the time

[Sean Williams]

As we all know actinic does not remove old product pages etc it just adds new stuff

All except me that is

This goes some way to explaining quite a lot of 404's in the stats.

Oh well, it's only more work.

Thanks Jo.

[jennyjennyb]

Thanks for all the helpful advice so far. I am now starting on the seo and pulling together the advice from other threads for general web content. The site has now come back from the designer so any comments, thoughts or suggestions would be great. www.thefittingscompany.co.uk

cheers
Jenny

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

Jenny,

Several products have no add to cart button, is that because they are not available or still a work in progress.

[Mark H]

Nice site!

With that product range I suspect you will get a lot of calls from people (on site) on mobiles, without access to email. Assuming that you want to encourage this in the interests of doing more business, you might consider putting a geographical phone number as well as an 0845. The latter can be expensive on many mobile accounts.

[Duncan Rounding]

Or of course an 03 number: http://www.ttnc.co.uk/numbers/03-numbers.do
Non-geographical but charged at standard call rate.

I'm surprised these numbers arre not advertised more.