Can someone "nutshell" this for me? I'm out of town, find these posts,
have a project I desperately trying to finish that uses, static pages,
Merchant Optimizer and the CBS SFL Suite. Bottom line, am I screwed? The
site has tons on links to products within the site. I thought this used to
be the way to do this? Have the rules just changed again?
FWIW - I have suggested more than once that the client use Jason's services.
Leslie
>> > Depends on whether you have regular links elsewhere to products or
>> > categories. If you have zero, than no problem. Might as well do it
> just to be sure.
>
> Jason
>
>
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> So we don't need to use a robot.txt file either? I've seen this in some
>> other posts on this thread so I just want to be sure. :-)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Lori
>>
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> On 5/16/05 7:41 PM, "Jason Henderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Depends on whether you have regular links elsewhere to products or
>> > categories. If you have zero, than no problem.
>> >
>> > Jason
>> >
>> >
>> >> We're using Search Friendly Links, Meta Tag Generator and Search
> Friendly
>> >> Store Map all by CBS.
>> >>
>> >> After reading this thread we're wondering what we need to do...
>> >>
>> >> According to the SFL manual: "... adding the .htaccess rewrite rule
> will
>> >> take the ' directory' link and rewrite the request to meet the SFL
> style
>> >> on-the-fly as requests come in. Search engines will only see the
>> static
>> >> link, not the rewritten link as this process is handled within your
>> web
>> >> server"
>> >>
>> >> If this is true than the URLs created by SFL and SF Store Map should
>> be
> OK
>> >> as Google won't see the Miva dynamic URLs, (along with the SFL and SF
>> > Store
>> >> Map URLs), and penalize us for duplicate sites... right????????
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> Lori
>> >>
>> >> ------------------
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 5/16/05 6:44 PM, "Jason Henderson" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Same thing. There will be what "appears" to be two different pages
> with
>> > the
>> >>> exact same content. Banning /Merchant2/ directory "should" not
>> affect
>> >>> rewritten urls via .htaccess such as SFL but don't quote me on that.
>> >>>
>> >>> Jason
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> I tried to follow the entire thread and didn't see this asked. If
> so,
>> > I
>> >>>> apologize. What happens if your site has both SFL and normal links
> to
>> > the
>> >>>> same page? Will this cause issues?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Paul
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: [email protected]
>> >>>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Webmaster -
>> >>>> Aquariumpros.com
>> >>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:20 PM
>> >>>> To: Annie's Maternity Corner; Miva Merchant Users
>> >>>> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Uhm, I hope there's nothing wrong with THAT! Yeesh! We have ten
> domains
>> >>> with
>> >>>> nothing on them pointing to aquariumpros.com.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dave Hauser, President
>> >>>> Aquarium Professionals Group
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: [email protected]
>> >>>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Annie's
>> >>>> Maternity Corner
>> >>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:10 PM
>> >>>> To: Miva Merchant Users
>> >>>> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The other URLs just re-direct to my site -- they don't actually
>> have
>> > any
>> >>>> pages of their own....
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >>>> Anne Cavicchi
>> >>>> Annie's
>> >>>> 106 - 402 Baker ST
>> >>>> Nelson, BC V1L4H8
>> >>>> 250-354-2000
>> >>>> www.maternitycorner.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: [email protected]
>> >>>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Webmaster -
>> >>>> Aquariumpros.com
>> >>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:03 AM
>> >>>> To: Annie's Maternity Corner; Miva Merchant Users
>> >>>> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The way I am given to understand it, NO. Not if the content in the
>> > three
>> >>>> sites is different, but that would not be mirroring. That would be
>> >>> linking!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If however all three of those sites sell the same products, have
>> the
>> > same
>> >>>> product descriptions and the same categories (are in effect the
>> same
>> >>> store),
>> >>>> then yes, according to Google, that could hurt you.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The article posted in this thread also hints that Google has tied
> into
>> > DNS
>> >>>> registration DBs and are looking at who owns sites that appear to
> have
>> > the
>> >>>> same content.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dave Hauser, President
>> >>>> Aquarium Professionals Group
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: [email protected]
>> >>>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Annie's
>> >>>> Maternity Corner
>> >>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:39 PM
>> >>>> To: Miva Merchant Users
>> >>>> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So, if I have anniesbaby.com and rebelmaternity.com etc pointing to
>> >>>> maternitycorner.com that's going to hurt me in google???
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >>>> Anne Cavicchi
>> >>>> Annie's
>> >>>> 106 - 402 Baker ST
>> >>>> Nelson, BC V1L4H8
>> >>>> 250-354-2000
>> >>>> www.maternitycorner.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: [email protected]
>> >>>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Aquapro
>> >>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:25 AM
>> >>>> To: Bill Gilligan; Miva Merchant Users
>> >>>> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: Google link?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Just wanted to post this after FINALLY hearing back from Google.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We had almost 55,000 pages in the Google index from our Search
>> Engine
>> >>> Killer
>> >>>> pages, CBS store map pages, plus all the static content pages from
> the
>> >>>> informational side of our site.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Now down to 904 and dropping. After quite a few emails to Google,
>> we
>> >>> finally
>> >>>> got a response. They are absolutely not indexing ANY form of mirror
> or
>> >>> HTML
>> >>>> equivalent of dynamic pages. If content on pages is identical or
>> even
>> >>> close,
>> >>>> forget about it!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> It's either the dynamic pages, or ONE series of HTML pages. Have a
>> > mirror
>> >>> on
>> >>>> another domain? Google may not list your site at all unless (like
> us),
>> > you
>> >>>> also have a fair amount of content pages.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> They would not get into algorythym specifics, but the bottom line
>> is
>> > that
>> >>> we
>> >>>> had too many copies of our store in their index. Their solution was
> to
>> > get
>> >>>> rid OF ALL pages related to Merchant from our site. They said their
>> > spider
>> >>>> will now crawl the site starting at the index and will spider any
> links
>> > it
>> >>>> finds until content starts looking identical, then it will stop. It
>> > will
>> >>> be
>> >>>> at least two to six months after we "clean up our site and remove
>> all
>> >>> forms
>> >>>> of mirror html pages before Google will start indexing new html
>> pages
>> >>>> generated by our new PHP Frame solution (Sebenza Studios). As that
>> >>> solution
>> >>>> also prevents the spider from seeing standard mvc product and
> category
>> >>>> pages, it will work, but only after we get rid of our SEK pages and
> CBS
>> >>>> Store Map.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> SEK, CBS store map and any other form of mirrored pages are a thing
> of
>> > the
>> >>>> past when it comes to Google. Either the PHP Frame solution we have
> or
>> >>>> Search Friendly links with dynamic Miva pages are the only way to
> fly.
>> > Get
>> >>>> rid of anything else fast!
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thank you
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dave Hauser, President
>> >>>> Aquarium Professionals Group
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: [email protected]
>> >>>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Bill
>> > Gilligan
>> >>>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:16 PM
>> >>>> To: Miva Merchant Users
>> >>>> Subject: [mru] OT: Google link?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Someone recently posted a link to a story about new changes at
> Google.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I have a client that has found his sales down, and google listing
>> has
>> >>>> dropped bu thousands. Did they
>> >>>> drop thousands of pages?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Anyone have that link?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Bill
>> >>>>