I am going to upgrade to 2.06 - exporting my current database.
My product pages have good Google positions.
Will I keep my Google results or do I have to do extensive page redirects or something else?
[quote name=‘Traveler’]I am going to upgrade to 2.06 - exporting my current database.
My product pages have good Google positions.
Will I keep my Google results or do I have to do extensive page redirects or something else?[/QUOTE]
I can tell you this much, not sure how much it is SSL fault or misconfiguration in seo category names + few seo bugs in 2.04 and 2.05 but my google ranks are dead compared to what I had in 135.
2 most important keywords I was found in 1 - 5 position now I am barely found…
[quote name=‘Darius’]I can tell you this much, not sure how much it is SSL fault or misconfiguration in seo category names + few seo bugs in 2.04 and 2.05 but my google ranks are dead compared to what I had in 135.
2 most important keywords I was found in 1 - 5 position now I am barely found…[/quote]
Darius,
You have me nervous…
Is 2.06 ok do you think?
Perhaps redirects need to be put into place?
Darius made his entire store secure, if I can recall correctly, therefore the search engines will have to completely re-index his store. Not to mention, I have no idea if search engines agree with SSL or not?
As long as your links do not change it should stay the same from my exerience from past upgrades for example a link before upgrade is http://www.yoursite.com_p133.html for a product then if you change anything or settings it may look like this or vice versa http://www.yoursite.com_product.html it will need to be indexed again.
It is only out for about 1 to 2 weeks then get indexed and back up same spot or higher from my experiences just watch or check your product link pages
[quote name=‘Tool Outfitters’]Darius made his entire store secure, if I can recall correctly, therefore the search engines will have to completely re-index his store. Not to mention, I have no idea if search engines agree with SSL or not?[/QUOTE]
I did not make my entire store with ssl, just checkout. Now I don’t know how to make google forget about https
Most interesting this is rest pages were reindexed but not the home page…
Check this out
[url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/showthread.php?t=11493[/url]
[url]http://www.hitechcloseout.com/[/url]
in google site:[url]http://www.hitechcloseout.com/[/url]
I think this website is set to have only cart and checkout SSL but in google I see more pages with https
If you have SEO enabled, add this to your robots.txt:
Disallow: /index.phpWhat does this do? I do not have it in mine dissallow index
It will keep the search engines from indexing non-relevant pages i.e. cart, checkout, etc…
[quote name=‘Tool Outfitters’]If you have SEO enabled, add this to your robots.txt:
Disallow: /index.php[/QUOTE]
Are you sure nothing is missing in this line ?
[quote name=‘Darius’]Are you sure nothing is missing in this line ?[/QUOTE]
Like what?
I am wondering myself
[quote name=‘Darius’]Are you sure nothing is missing in this line ?[/quote]
The rest of the robots.txt file I reckon
[quote name=‘Tool Outfitters’]Like what?[/QUOTE]
OK I’ll ask in other way, what will be indexed then?
My site is truebalticamber.com
I got redirect truebalticamber.lt
The redirect is found very well, however I cannot find truebalticamber.com in google, all pages apart from home page truebalticamber.com/index.php
Can anyone advise what to do? Or explain how to get this installed
[url]http://groups.google.com/group/only-validation/web/301-redirect-https-to-http-on-apache-server[/url]
[quote name=‘Darius’]OK I’ll ask in other way, what will be indexed then?[/QUOTE]
Everything that has an SEO name hence “If you have SEO enabled…”
[quote name=‘Darius’]My site is truebalticamber.com
I got redirect truebalticamber.lt
The redirect is found very well, however I cannot find truebalticamber.com in google, all pages apart from home page truebalticamber.com/index.php[/QUOTE]
My guess is because it’s being redirected. Personally I would get rid of the redirect. It doesn’t take Google that long to index a site.
[quote name=‘Darius’]Can anyone advise what to do? Or explain how to get this installed
[url]http://groups.google.com/group/only-validation/web/301-redirect-https-to-http-on-apache-server[/url][/QUOTE]
No reason to.
[quote name=‘Tool Outfitters’]
My guess is because it’s being redirected. Personally I would get rid of the redirect. It doesn’t take Google that long to index a site.
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Whats wrong with redirect? Why is it presented in google better then actual site?
My domain is since 2005, was in first positions for “Baltic amber” and “amber jewelry” keywords… but since I installed 2x google does not like it anymore and does not show in search results (things like categories, pages, products are in results but not index.php)…
I don’t know? I’m not a Google engineer but once again, I would get rid of the redirect. Why would it be indexed if it already has a redirect from another indexed domain?
[quote name=‘Tool Outfitters’]I don’t know? I’m not a Google engineer but once again, I would get rid of the redirect. Why would it be indexed if it already has a redirect from another indexed domain?[/QUOTE]
I made a 301 redirect from redirect domain, thats what google offers to do.
What do you think about making these in robots.txt
Disallow: /&sess_id=
Disallow: /&sess_id*
Disallow: /?currency=
Disallow: /?currency*
Google understands this as duplicate content