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I am using postbacks to perform paging on a large amount of data. Since I did not have a sitemap for google to read, there will be products that google will never know about due to the fact that google does not push any buttons.
I am doing cloaking to spit out all the products with no paging if the user-agent is that of a search engine. There may be some work arounds for situations like this which include hidden buttons to paged urls.
What about information you want indexed buy google but you want to charge for the content. Imagine that I have articles that I want users to be able to find in google, but when the user visits the page, only half the content is displayed and users will have to pay for the rest.
I have heard that google may blacklist you for cloaking. I am not being evil, just helpful. Does google recognize the intention?
Here is a FAQ by google on that topic. I suggest to use CSS to hide some content. For example just give links to your products as an alternative to your buttons and use display:none; on them. The layout stays intact and the search engines will find your pages. However most search engines will not find out about cloaking and other techniques, but maybe competitors will denigrate you. In any way: Don't risk it. Use sitemaps, use RSS feeds, use XML documents or even PDF files with links to offer your whole range of products. Good luck!
This is why Google supports a sitemap protocol. The sitemap file needs to render as XML, but can certainly be a code-generated file, so you can produce on-demand from the database. And then point to it from your robots.txt file, as well as telling Google about it explicitly from your Google Webmaster Console area.
Highly doubtful. If you are serving different content based on IP address or User-Agent from the same URL, it's cloaking, regardless of the intentions. How would a spider parse two sets of content and figure out the "intent"?
There is intense disagreement over whether "good" cloakers are even helping the user anyway.
Why not just add a sitemap?
I don't think G will recognize your intent, unfortunately. Have you considered creating a sitemap dynamically? http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40318
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I created a simple website for one of my clients. I added meta tags in order to end up high in Google searches. However, if I enter the name of the site or some meta keywords, Google doesn't find my website.
The critical keywords that I want to be found: "Orquidea", "schoonheidssalon Westerlo", "Westerlo", "schoonheidssalon"
I uploaded the meta tags a week ago. I think that would be long enough to be scannend and recognized by Google right?
Anyone a solution?
Here's the URL: http://www.orquidea.be
Although the question is off-topic, I'll still answer it!
FACT: Meta keywords have no effect on SEO. Instead, you should focus on generating quality content and getting backlinks to appropriate webpages.
Make sure to use those meta keywords only, that match the content of your client's website. And yes, don't worry about anything else.
Sure, Nowadays meta tags have no effect on search engine rankings. That is Meta Tags are not considered in ranking your website. But before it was into consideration when people used to keyword stuff their meta tags.
This caused difficulty in validating websites for Google, so they used to follow only meta descriptions, content, titles. So always be careful when writing meta descriptions, titles and content. Don't stuff your content with your target keywords. Write simple content that is readable and understandable for your website and sure your website will be indexed in right place for the right keyword...
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I currently program a website which gives information about food products.
The way the website works is that there's a search engine -> the users search for the product they want to know something about -> the website shows all the products that they may want to see, and every product has his own page with all the information about it.
So my question is: how search engines, like google, will be able to find all the product pages?
Search engines use many different ways to find new pages. Most commonly their web crawlers follow (external as well as internal) hyperlinks.
While a typical informational website links to all available pages in its site-wide navigation (so web crawlers can reach all pages by following internal links), other websites don’t necessarily link to all their pages (maybe because you can only reach them via forms, or because it doesn’t make sense for them to provide all links, etc.).
To allow discovery/crawling of new pages of these sites, too, they can provide a site map. This is essentially just a page linking to all existing pages, but often with structured metadata that can help search engines.
So just make sure that all your pages are linked somehow. Either via "natural" internal links on your site, or by providing a sitemap (ideally following the sitemaps.org protocol), or both.
For questions about SEO advice (which is off-topic here on SO), see our sister site https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/.
Please add sitemap in your site for google crawling all pages easily and indexing properly.
also add xml sitemap
your website need SEO process.
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What I want to achieve:
I have an online dictionary which works quite fine - but the crawling by search engines (especially Google) could be better.
So I would like to improve the internal linking structure on my website so that Google can easily find (almost) all pages of the dictionary.
What I know yet:
The number of internal links per page should not exceed 100. Search engines don't like pages containing masses of links - looks spammy. And a website is not to be designed for search engines but for the users. So the usability should not suffer from this optimization, best case would be if the usability does even increase.
My ideas for improving the internal linking structure so far:
on each dictionary entry page: link 25 similar words which could be mixed up
create an index: list of all dictionary entries (75 per page)
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Can you help me to optimize the linking structure?
Thank you very much in advance!
You could link to synonyms and antonyms, which would be both user-friendly and crawler-friendly. But I think the biggest thing you could do to improve crawling, particularly by Google, would be to add a sitemap:
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
Google has lots of information on Sitemaps and how to generate them on their webmaster help pages.
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There are a lot of websites that look professional in Google results. Try searching for 'stackoverflow' and you'll see at the top a result with a title, a description and a table of 8 links to stackoverflow categories. That's what I'm interested in producing for future websites.
So what must be done? Does it depend on the number of visitors? How long does it take until the results start looking like that?
I think you are referring to "sitelinks". Google generally does not make it public exactly how those are created (to prevent abuse, for example). I suspect you need the subpages to be very strongly linked, perhaps about the same amount or more than the top-level page. No way to know for sure. The best way to get your website looking good in Google is to make it as user-friendly and human-friendly as possible. I think Google typically looks for clues as to whether the website will be relevant to humans and very likely penalizes content that detracts from the interface just to become search-engine optimized.
Make sure that each page (not just your home page) has a title.
Include description meta information, which search engines may (or may not) use for snippets to display.
If an unordered list (<ul><li><a href="http://..">Home...) is used for navigation on the page, Google will pick that up and display it underneath the page listing when it is the #1 or #2 position listing.
Google may also use the description meta, or the first few lines of text that appear on the page, underneath the entry. It usually does this for searches in the other positions.
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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."