[ic] IC and search engines

[sphen boyle]

hmm.. now thats something i hadnt thought of (well obviously).  thanks 
alot for the help, ill give that a try immediately!

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 09:30  PM, Ryan Hertz wrote:

> At 08:46 PM 2/27/02 -0500, Mike Heins wrote:
>> Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
>> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:34:54PM -0500, sphen boyle wrote:
>> > > has anyone figured out a way to trick search engines into ranking the
>> > > interchange pages?  looking at past logs, we used to get a lot of 
>> people
>> > > finding us at google and other search engines, and ever since we 
>> started
>> > > using interchange, our orders have gone down and our rankings have
>> > > disappeared.  i would think that this would be a very important issue
>> > > regarding interchange.  any ideas would be great.
>> >
>> > There are all sorts of ways.  Most of them will depend on your web 
>> server,
>> > not on IC.  Search the mailing list archives for rewrite.
>>
>> One way that works real well is to link Google into your individual
>> product pages. Experience has shown that if the product description is
>> in the <title>, it gets ranked higher when that is the search term.
>>
>> (NOTE: Google's link-based algorithms sometimes make all this moot.
>> This method really worked well back in the days of Altavista; sometimes
>> my clients would be a consistent 1-3 at Altavista when searching for
>> a particular product.)
>>
>> Make a page that does a single line link to each product:
>>
>> i.e.
>>
>>         [loop search="
>>                 fi=products
>>                 st=db
>>                 ra=yes
>>                 ml=10000
>>                 "]
>>         <A HREF="http://__SERVER_NAME____CGI_URL__/[loop-code].html">
>>                 [loop-field description]
>>         </A><br>
>>         [/loop]
>
> I would have to definitely agree with this method -- it's called a 
> sitemap -- and regardless of running Interchange, it is probably the best 
> way to get your site indexed.  Some customers find it useful, too.
>
>
>
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