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I noticed that when one searches for some companies in Google, the results come back with nice categories. For example, if you Google sqlteam, the result contains SqlTeam website sections such as Forums, SQL Server Version, Weblogs, SQL Server Links, etc.
When I Google for the site whatiftoptions, I don't get these nice categories. What do I need to do in order for Google to display categories in search result?
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Unfortunately, only Google knows the exact method for generating Sitelinks for your site. It is kept secret to prevent sites from abusing the ranking system, as having a site with Sitelinks can easily improve its image in the search results. Commonly sitelinked sites have the following attributes:
Site ranks first for the keyword(s) that generate the Sitelinks listing
Easily spiderable, structured navigation.
Fairly high natural search traffic.
High click through rates from the search results page.
Popular internal pages appear as Sitelinks.
Unique titles and meta descriptions on internal pages.
You can read more about this at http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/sitelinks.shtml
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Our company has created a "comparison" tool that uses unique urls to choose who you want to compare, example:
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nhl/2010-edmonton-oilers/vs/2008-calgary-flames/
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nhl/1993-carolina-hurricanes/vs/2008-dallas-stars/
Does anyone know if this is a recommended SEO strategy or is it better to use query string parameters instead of completely different urls. One advantage I was thinking of is this could grab long tail traffic searches such as "2010 Edmonton Oilers Vs 1995 Calgary Flames" but having this many URLS might also hurt the general SEO of these pages.
Does anyone have any experience in creating pages like this? What is the recommended strategy?
The style of URL is not going to matter much to search engines.
From a search engine perspective they are going to care more that:
You have 30 teams and 24 seasons. You are creating 30*24*30*24 = over 500,000 pages.
Each page has very little content. Its just two team names and some numerical stats.
The content that you do have is heavily duplicated across pages.
The search volume for your targeted keywords is going to be very low. Very few people search for two team names with two different years.
If I ran a search engine, I would not want to have my crawlers waste time crawling that site. I wouldn't want the pages in the index.
I expect that your site will suffer from "thin content", "duplicate content", and "excessive pages" issues because of this section.
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I am a founder for a tech summer camp program. My website has a page full of resources for web-development meant for camp participants and has been getting lots of traffic from people querying html colors, css cheat sheet, and other similar terms.
My question is: will traffic from these terms hurt my SEO for queries involving things like summer camps,tech camps halifax, or other more related queries? or Is any traffic good for my SEO?
Note: We have no problem with people accessing these resources, so I haven't bothered to password protect it or add robots.txt or anything. The site is compcamp.ca and the resource page I mentioned is compcamp.ca/web-development-design-resources/
Google ranks the site compcamp.ca/web-development-design-resources/ well for search-queries like css cheat-sheet, because the content of your site contains the keywords and so on.
There are no Keywords for "tech camps halifax" and so on. So Google won't rank this subsite.
If you want to rank fpr "tech camps halifax" you have to take content on a site (i would expect the start page) which contains those keywords.
The other way round: Successful search queries on your cheat-sheet sub-site won't hurt your rankings from other sub-pages which delivers different information = different keywords.
I hope this is answering your question, don't bother to ask if not.
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Thanks for reading my question. I am building a site that will be listing products from each manufacturer. I'm planning to structure the URL as following variations:
www.mysite.com/manufacturer_name/product_name/product_id
www.mysite.com/product_name/product_id
www.mysite.com/manufacturer_name
There are millions of products and I want all the major search engine to crawl them. What is the best way to go about doing that?
Would simply submitting site to all the search engines be enough? I would assume if I submit the manufacturer page which lists out all the manufacturer name as links the search engine will click on each links and click on all the products displayed within each manufacturer links (I will have paging for products) so the search engine can keep crawling the site for more products within each manufacturer until it runs out of the page number.
Would that be sufficient to list out each product on the every search engine? or is there a new and better way to do this? May be there are new SEO tricks that I'm not aware of. I am hoping if you can point me to the right direction.
I've previously used robot.txt to tell search engines which pages to crawl and that seemed to work fine.
Thanks,
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Submit an XML sitemap. The easiest way to do this is to link to it in your robots.txt file.
Sample robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap_location.xml
See Submitting Sitemaps for more on this topic from Google
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I have developed a website for a firm that deals in pumps, valves and diesel engines. They require that when an interested user searches with some keywords like "Pump Dealers" or "Valve Dealers", their site should appear in the results. Currently I am not aware of how I can go about this, so my question is what should I do in order for better page ranking. I am using meaningful page titles and have enough text in every page.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Firstly Pagerank is irrelevant these days, so don't worry about that.
You should ensure that you use Google's Webmaster Tools to check that Google knows about your site etc. This will tell you what things it is coming up for on Google.
Make sure that the page has the text on it you want to rank for - as you mention, titles, headers etc will help but don't over do it.
The main thing to do is to get links to your site – write interesting blog posts, contact customers etc so they link to you.
It really depends on who your competition is for those terms - if there are already 10 huge companies ranking for those terms then you are stuck.
The other way to do this is to buy Adwords – this will likely cost upwards of $5-10 a day to get any meaningful traffic though.
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If you google a specific entity, occasionally the website listed first is given a little listing of content, sort of like a mini site-map that the user can click on to navigate the linked site, bypassing the home page.
My question is this: Can I control this mini-sitemap when I am PR1? If so, how do I do so? I'm trying to build a list of relevant links so users can more effectively hit my site, but I'm not sure where to go about doing this.
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No you cannot turn this on. Google decides this on their own wheter or not to generate them and for which search terms. If you sign up for the google webmasters you can see the status (if google has generated some for your site) and read more about their background.
Google generates the sitelinks itself, but only for certain sites. As for how it determines which sites get it and which don't, I'm not really sure, but I suspect it has something to do with the pagerank of the site and the amount of content you have.
For a while, I had sitelinks for my site (PR4 with about 40,000 pages indexed in Google) but then a while later, they went away. In my case it generated sitelinks for the main tabs on the site, probably because they are in the header navigation and therefore on every single page near the top of the page.
The only control you have over them is you can use the Google webmaster tools to remove sitelinks that you don't like, but you can't change the existing ones or suggest new ones.
They are called Sitelinks - there's a FAQ entry about them here.
You can't control them (except to remove ones you don't like) - the FAQ says "At the moment, sitelinks are completely automated."