google search results

[sirmyser]

Hi Guys,

when entering a domain specific search for my site - www.raptor-cctv.co.uk I now get a result with 'sub-sections/site links' i.e. site pages, links and login. This is all very well but I also get 3 other 'sub-links' to product description PDF's (not wanted). Is there anyway to control this? I have looked into possibly using an .xml site map (is this needed)? or excluding main product from google feed (can't see this being a good thing) and/or using robot.txt (unsure about what or where to use this) or even the noindex metatags (can't use them on pdf's anyway) it's a bit of a mess tbh.The ideal outcome would be the result you get when you search www.adata.co.uk with relevant 'sub-headings/site links' (not sure about the terminology). We have not generated enough income to 'contract out' for SEO help (yet) so any help at this stage would be very much apreciated. Traffic to our site is more or less non-existant so we feel like giving up tbh, shame after all the effort that has gone into it

We also know that the main header link on our site is 'broken' and have no idea how to fix this. Someone has looked at the code but no solution has been found.


Thanks.

[Mike Hughes]

We also know that the main header link on our site is 'broken' and have no idea how to fix this. Someone has looked at the code but no solution has been found.

The fix to this is simple. Add 'http://' to the href link on your image so the browser doesn't think it's a relative address.

Regarding the unwanted pdf links. Ignore them and do a bit of SEO work on the rest of your site. Google's just showing what it thinks are the most important bits of your site and is struggling to find the relevant bits.

In terms of SEO, the things that jump out at me that need a little work (and I really do mean just a little work) are:

1. Add the meta descriptions to all your section pages.
2. Add some relavant text to the product descriptions (At the moment there's none which is why Google is picking up the pdfs). At the very least copy and paste the key bits from the pdfs into the product description.
3. Add some text to the section pages (just add a fragment and include some advice on choosing security cameras, etc).
4. Get some relevant links to your site. Good places to start are local directories, trade associations, etc.

Mike

[sirmyser]

href link

Hi Mike,

Probably having a 'moment' but not sure where to to insert the 'http://"

is it here?

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22HomePageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%270%27">
<a href="<actinic:variable name="HomePageURL" />"></actinic:block>
<img
src="<actinic:variable name="BrochureLogo" />"
width="<actinic:variable name="BrochureLogoWidth" />"
height="<actinic:variable name="BrochureLogoHeight" />"
border="0"
alt="<actinic:variable name="StoreName" />"
title="<actinic:variable name="CompanyName" /> <actinic:variable name="StoreName" />"
class="logoimage">
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22HomePageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%270%27">
</a>
</actinic:block>

Thanks

[sirmyser]

cgi bin

Hi again

made the SEO changes you reccomended - thanks for that again - much appreciated

I'm also getting this page showing in google..

Site Pages - Raptor-cctv.co.ukwww.raptor-cctv.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION...

any idea how to stop this?

thanks

[Mike Hughes]

OK. I see what you mean. I lose track of what Actinic likes to do with links on the root home page and tent to use the brute force method.

Just change:

<a href="<actinic:variable name="HomePageURL" />">

on the image link to

<a href="http://www.raptor-cctv.co.uk">

Regarding the cart page, etc the simplest way is to add the nofollow tag to the links on the cart and checkout buttons on your site. Just add rel="nofollow" at the end of the href as described here http://support.google.com/webmasters...n&answer=96569

Mike