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Rankling worse using version 2
Posted 05 November 2009 - 07:22 AM #1
We were using cs-cart 1.3.5 and now that we have upgraded to 2.0.8 it seems our rankings are going down. We are using a third party sitemap submission mod, but it is from the same place we got our sitemap mod for v1.3.5. This is very troubling to us as products that previously ranked really well are now showing up 2 or 3 pages in with the categories that they are included in ranking better than the product itself..
Very confused at this point.
- sorry about the typo in the title.. haha
Posted 05 November 2009 - 10:05 AM #2
you have in affect changed all the sites html (coding ) so what google rankd you on is not the same = drop in serps
good news if you have pulled all the urls and item titles across you SHOULD recover quite quickly the same positions , I suggest a increased seo campaign adding as many Quality relevant links as possible,ALSO CONTENT IS KING this will help speed up the recovery.DONT PANIC SIT TIGHT UNLESS IT YOUR SEASON AND THEN GET SMASHING AD WORDS just to keep the $$$$ rollin in
PS we are currently sat very high on a good few 100 keywords and are in the process of upgrading now,
HI there
We were using cs-cart 1.3.5 and now that we have upgraded to 2.0.8 it seems our rankings are going down. We are using a third party sitemap submission mod, but it is from the same place we got our sitemap mod for v1.3.5. This is very troubling to us as products that previously ranked really well are now showing up 2 or 3 pages in with the categories that they are included in ranking better than the product itself..
Very confused at this point.
- sorry about the typo in the title.. haha
Posted 05 November 2009 - 03:42 PM #3
HI there
We were using cs-cart 1.3.5 and now that we have upgraded to 2.0.8 it seems our rankings are going down. We are using a third party sitemap submission mod, but it is from the same place we got our sitemap mod for v1.3.5. This is very troubling to us as products that previously ranked really well are now showing up 2 or 3 pages in with the categories that they are included in ranking better than the product itself..
Very confused at this point.
- sorry about the typo in the title.. haha
If you do not do anything about it you will get to very bottom. I spent more then 2 months recovering from 135 to 2x move...
Posted 05 November 2009 - 03:48 PM #4
Hi there
you have in affect changed all the sites html (coding ) so what google rankd you on is not the same = drop in serps
good news if you have pulled all the urls and item titles across you SHOULD recover quite quickly the same positions , I suggest a increased seo campaign adding as many Quality relevant links as possible,ALSO CONTENT IS KING this will help speed up the recovery.DONT PANIC SIT TIGHT UNLESS IT YOUR SEASON AND THEN GET SMASHING AD WORDS just to keep the $$$$ rollin in
PS we are currently sat very high on a good few 100 keywords and are in the process of upgrading now,
Won't help.
First you need to check what exactly and how many pages are indexed by google.
For example 135 had links made like /?target=
2x ?dispatch=
now run test
google.com enter
site:www.domain.com target
Now every link you will get as result (I got about 5000+ pages) eqals to your domain.com/index.php
Your cart will not gonna give 404 code for google to remove this non existing link, the fore it remains as some page is loaded on request. Now each such attempt confuses google what is the actual entry page of your domain domain.com or domain.com/index.php or index.htm index.html or whatever with target in link...
If you won't do anything about it you will be very sorry for moving to 2x.
+ if you have ssl you are out of the business soon
Posted 05 November 2009 - 11:13 PM #5
Won't help.
First you need to check what exactly and how many pages are indexed by google.
For example 135 had links made like /?target=
2x ?dispatch=
now run test
google.com enter
site:www.domain.com target
Now every link you will get as result (I got about 5000+ pages) eqals to your domain.com/index.php
Your cart will not gonna give 404 code for google to remove this non existing link, the fore it remains as some page is loaded on request. Now each such attempt confuses google what is the actual entry page of your domain domain.com or domain.com/index.php or index.htm index.html or whatever with target in link...
If you won't do anything about it you will be very sorry for moving to 2x.
+ if you have ssl you are out of the business soon
Sorry for my ignorance but you have lost me here, what is it that I should be doing. Also what do you mean if I have SSL I will be out of business soon?
Posted 06 November 2009 - 06:24 AM #7
What I ment SSL enabled checkout gets all shop (most of it) indexed by google as https
Posted 06 November 2009 - 04:08 PM #8
My experience with 2.0 was a disaster. I switched back. My conversions went immediatly back up after reverting, and traffic is slowly back up too.
Posted 06 November 2009 - 04:20 PM #9
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt
in .htaccess for ssl problem
and
User-agent: * Disallow: /
in robots_ssl.txt
took about a month for google to forget about ssl i have.