Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

[kitdang]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Dan, I do have Category Template Mgr. Can you elaborate on how I can use that code and where? Sorry, still learning Miva Scripting.

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

You can see it in the module document here. Basically you would change your category product links to something like the following:

yourdomain.com/&mvta:product:code;/&mvta:product:nameclean;.html

That all being said, I really recommend using this url method with care. If your product names are excessively long, do not contain relevant keywords or contain special characters etc. etc., don't do it.

[kitdang]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Dan,

Thanks for the quick post. Okay i can implement that on the category pages for the products. I am also using sebenza category tree template for the tree nav. How do i go about changing those links for Categories? I look at the pdf doc for Category tree template and unfortunitely i can't find one that is similar.

&mvt:tree:pad;<a href="/&mvta:tree:code;/&mvta:tree:name;.html" class="&mvt:tree:class;">&mvt:tree:name;</a>

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

You could use something like Sebenza Tools to do it in the category tree... and in other places throughout the store. I think the Emporium Plus Toolkit will do it to if you have that.

[kitdang]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Dan,

Finally installed Sebenza Tools. How do i go about modifying the tree code?


&mvt:tree:pad;<a href="/&mvta:tree:code;/&mvta:tree:name;.html" class="&mvt:tree:class;">&mvt:tree:name;</a>

[kitdang]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Oh, forgot to mention that I appreciate you going out of your way to help the newbies :-)

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Here is the example from the module docs:

URL Variable Cleaner
<mvt:item name="sebenzatools" param="var|widget|urlcleaner(l.all_settings:product:name)" />
&mvt:global:widget;
“Sample Widget A/B (1)” would become “Sample-Widget-A-B-1”

[kitdang]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Thanks Dan, I saw that piece of code as well on sebenza knowledgebase but I needed within the cattree. How do i incorporate the above code within the cattree? Maybe i need to drop the cattree and try to code it on the category template?

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

First you need to run the tree:name variable through the cleaner:

<mvt:item name="sebenzatools" param="var|treenameclean|urlcleaner(l.all_settings:tree:name)" />

This creates a new "clean" version of the tree:name variable that you will use in your category tree short urls:

/&mvta:tree:code;/&mvta:global:treenameclean;.html

Final Code:

<mvt:item name="sebenzatools" param="var|treenameclean|urlcleaner(l.all_settings:tree:name)" />
<a href="/&mvta:tree:code;/&mvta:global:treenameclean;.html">&mvt:tree:name;</a>

[kitdang]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Dan,

this is what I have in the code

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:tree:image">
         &mvt:tree:pad;<a href="/&mvta:tree:code;/&mvta:tree:name;.html" class="&mvt:tree:class;"><img src="&mvt:tree:image;" border="0" alt="&mvt:tree:name;"></a><br>
      <mvt:else>
         <mvt:item name="sebenzatools" param="var|treenameclean|urlcleaner(l.all_settings:tree:name)" />
         &mvt:tree:pad;<a href="/&mvta:tree:code;/&mvt:global:treenameclean;.html" class="&mvt:tree:class;">
         
         &mvt:tree:name;</a><br>
      </mvt:if>

and the result looks like

domain.com/category_code/.html

it looks like the varible is null

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Is the Sebenza Tools item assigned to all pages where the category tree is in use?

[kitdang]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Dan,

You're the man. That does it. It works!!!! Thank you

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

Hey there, Everyone:

We have in our possession a couple of SEO friendly directories whose sole purpose is to provide one-way linking opportunities for web masters.

Did anyone ever get a copy of this spreadsheet? He said he would provide it to anyone who emailed him (or her), but I haven't got a reply back. Maybe someone in the group would be willing to share it?

[aarcmedia]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

We are no longer providing the list for free, but we are now selling it through our website (link below). Reason being, it started out a list of 200-300 directories, and now its 3,900 and growing every day. You can purchase it by following the link below:

http://www.aarcmediagroup.com/seo-fr...list-prod.html

Problem being that we use this list on a daily basis for our own sites, and our seo clients sites and right now it contains over 3900 directories you can submit your site to. We update it on a daily basis, some days by adding new directories, some days by deleting directories that have either stopped operating or that are now charging for submission services.

So while initially it wasn't a big deal to send the directory to the one or two people per month that showed interest, now that the list has grown, giving it away would be a real bad idea for us.

I hope everyone understands. Note that you can buy it from us, but you can find similar directories for free if you just look real hard.

[Donna]

Re: Search Engine Optimization w/ Miva

How do you know the differance between a directory and a link farm?