Keensurfer
Joined: Nov 05, 1999
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 03:08
We just changed an old website that we had in Google from a classic .html site to a newer shopping cart .aspx site and "poof" it's disappeared. I can see that the new site is cached if I search for mysitexyz.com
The new site has been created with SEO in mind...good meta tags, good content, titles and descriptions.
Any ideas or experiences about what's going on. Can't find my site in the top 100.
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 04:21
i justed checked for your keyword prhases and you are in top ten, right at the top
Unprinted Golf Tees
Wholesale Golf Tees
Printed Golf Tees
anyone page is genrally only good for 3 or 3 keyword phrases and its the above the google is going to grab.
you need to optimize each product page individually for the se's. Your traffic is not all going to come through the frontpage. To do this you need more content on each of the product pages.
also you have what i a call a "flat site". Spiders link to drill down several levels. your site needs depth.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 08:37
Part of your website migration strategy should have been a plan to either try to keep as many of the old URLs active as possible, or else set up redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs.
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Keensurfer
Joined: Nov 05, 1999
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 12:06
mj1256,
Thank you so much for checking this out. The site in question though was not the site in my profile, that site's actually doing quite well. I updated my profile this morning to put my site in question there. Could you please check that one out?
g1,
Good to see you again. The root URL stayed the same, it's just that the pages changed from .html to .aspx. I have a feeling the site's being sand-boxed?
Any ideas from all are greatly appreciated!
Best Regards,
Keensurfer
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 14:06
There is no need to change the extension on a URL.
I have no idea what you do for IIS, but in Apache you can make URLs ending in .html (and any other extensions that you can think of) still be parsed for their PHP scripting using just one line in .htaccess.
# Allow .html .htm .cfm .pl .asp .aspx URL extensions to be PHP scripted files:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm .cfm .pl .asp .aspx
If IIS doesn't have a similar function for this, then it is a highly flawed product.
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 14:42
g1smd, this is normal for it to be sandboxed for a while, it could last several months in my experience. but...it the site is better optimized than the old one, its worth the changes you made.
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 14:47
saw the site in question, my comments above apply to this site also.
you need content on each of the product pages
your site is flat, it needs depth
you need to optimize each product pages so they can rank individually on the search engines
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 16:25
My point was that there was no need for the external URLs to change, even if the underlying technology running the site has changed; even less so if it was just the extension that changed.
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
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Posted: 2008-Sep-26 16:51
g1 you are correct, that could have been dealt with, but i think its already a done deal. (need more info?) So from what I can see, he needs to deal with what he has happening now.
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Prowler
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Joined: Aug 14, 2000
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Posted: 2008-Sep-27 05:39
If it is an old site and the changes were made only recently, you can still revert back to the old URL with URL ReWriter or whatever the equivalent in IIS for the standard apache rewrite module. This will help to retain the rankings.
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Keensurfer
Joined: Nov 05, 1999
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Posted: 2008-Sep-27 17:21
Thanks all! Went with a standard Pro E Commerce package with Network Solutions. This site will wind up with thousands of golf gifts on it and I liked how powerful their search tools were and the ease of adding products.
It's amazing to me how far standardized shopping carts like the one I chose seem to have come from an SEO perspective. You can customize and add html basically anywhere and they have idiot boxes on each page to add Page Titles, keywords and descriptions for SEO purposes.
Don't seem to have a choice except to go with the .aspx
Haven't done that before, do you think it will hurt?
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rginfotech
Joined: Sep 23, 2008
# Posts: 13
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Posted: 2008-Oct-06 12:44
Hi,
Thanks to all for sharing there info, i am also get some needful points from here, thanks
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
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Posted: 2008-Oct-06 15:26
FYI
network solutions is updating there ecommerce packages and deprecating many of the existing ones. They are reported to be running 6 months behind in updating existing ecommerce sites to the new version.
make sure you are getting the latest version and not one of the versions that is being discontinued. I know of several ecommerce shops that are leaving NS because of the issues that are arising out of this.
beware!
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