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Feed Your osCommerce Website |
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Why would you or better yet, SHOULD you add an RSS Feed to your osCommerce website? Here's why...
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The Importance of a Search Engine Friendly Oscommerce Site |
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Search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Ask can be major sources of traffic for your oscommerce site.
Search engines use crawlers or robots to index websites to list in their search engine results pages. The resulting indexed information is presented to the users of the search engine who might be searching for specific information, products or services. If you want to make your oscommerce site more search engine friendly and make the indexing your site easier, there are a few things that you should know.
The most important thing that you can do to make your site search engine friendly and make indexing your site easier is using meta title, meta description and meta keyword tags. These meta tags should be used accordingly on each and every page of your oscommerce site to make it easier for the search engines to crawl and properly index your site's content. Without properly formatted meta tag information, your site may not be indexed and even if it is, most likely will not rank high enough in the search engine results to matter.
Oscommerce contributions such as the one found in our oscommerce contributions section allows for the easy modification of your site's meta tags.
The second most important thing that you can do to make your site search engine friendly is to convert your dynamic urls into search engine friendly urls. The importance of this
is two fold. One, search engines aren't really fond of dynamic urls to begin with and secondly, it allows the name of your product or service to show in your oscommerce site's
url.
Oscommerce contributions such as the one found in our oscommerce contributions section allows for converting your dyanmic urls into search engine friendly urls.
Avoid using too much flash and/or placing important information in flash files. While flash sites normally look great, they do nothing for indexing your site. Search engine robots can only read your site's source code text. Therefore if your site is all flash or if your flash files contain import information about your products or services, it may not be properly indexed.
Lastly, whenever possible, use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to style your pages rather than using HTML tags. Using CSS allows you to eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages lighter and faster to load.
Designing a search engine friendly oscommerce site is an important step in helping you to rank well in the major search engines and in obtaining more visitors to your site.
Our OsCommerce Seo services can help put your oscommerce site on the right track to getting higher search engine rankings. Contact us for more information about our Advanced Seo for osCommerce or osCommerce Seo Ready packages.
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