kenny724 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Hey, everyone. This is frustrating me. My main pages are html. Then my shopping cart goes to php, when is zen cart. Main site is www.midsouthcoin.com/index.html and my shopping cart is www.midsouthcoin.com/midsouthcoin/index.php. Would it be better to make it store.midsouthcoin.com/index.php?? I can't seem to get anything to show up in seach engines except for my main pages. Can anyone check the files for me to make sure I'm doing the keywords correctly. I have lost half of my hair. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/194669-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny724 Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 the main pages being my html pages that is. Thanks for any help. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/194669-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing/#findComment-1023776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nafetski Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 "The requested URL /midsouthcoin/index.php was not found on this server. " When I tried to go to that URL at least. As far as what search engines will think of your site.. (I won't begin to say I am a SEO master by any means). Search engines can only access the parts of your site that are facing to the public. The way that search engines "Crawl" your site is by clicking on links, looking at headers, and basically just trying to hit every part of your site. If your shopping cart link isn't there for it to crawl, it won't ever get to it. Also, take a look at robots.txt files. (google search how to properly set them up). that allows you to specify where you want search engines to go on your site , and in some cases - whereyou don't want them to go! That should get you pointed in the right direction, and good luck! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/194669-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing/#findComment-1023912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdorma0 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Hey, everyone. This is frustrating me. My main pages are html. Then my shopping cart goes to php, when is zen cart. Main site is www.midsouthcoin.com/index.html and my shopping cart is www.midsouthcoin.com/midsouthcoin/index.php. Would it be better to make it store.midsouthcoin.com/index.php?? I can't seem to get anything to show up in seach engines except for my main pages. Can anyone check the files for me to make sure I'm doing the keywords correctly. I have lost half of my hair. I would say create a sitemap for your website and research the robots.txt file .. but it looks like you've already created http://www.midsouthcoin.com/sitemap.xml If you look at the priority in the sitemap (I'm using Google Chrome, not sure if IE will do this) it lists your homepage at 1.00 while all of your subpages are 0.50. Some major search engine optimization is required. I would recommend adding more to your homepage, providing a brief description of the business (there's more information on the store page than the homepage), with a few contextual links to the store, as well as getting other web sites to link to your store. You can get listed in a few directories online that will help you, but be careful and not get on websites which list thousands of links on one page because that'll hurt your ranking. If you follow this Google search, it has your site listed. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS368US368&q=midsouthcoin.com/midsouthcoinstore/&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= The problem is it has the wrong link listed.. one that apparently leads back to Zen Cart. Another problem is that Zen Cart itself is not very search engine friendly as just about everything draws off of the index.php file.. which to a search engine looks like everything is one page so it just picks a page to cache and calls it quits. You can use a SEO for Zen Cart, which will rewrite your URLs to look as if they are static HTML pages, but are still entirely dynamic. It will help with the search engine caching. But use it at your own risk and back up your store before you install it (any files that you change, etc). http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_47&products_id=231 Good luck! Joey Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/194669-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing/#findComment-1024025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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