Let`s talk about keywords and google.

[Stig]

Hi there,

I do not use keywords just keywords in Title. (I do not know where to put the meta tags, its difficult with php oscommerse)

I sell radar detectors in Norway and keywords - Norwegian.

I`m No.1 and 2 with one keyword @ google and 5-6 with second keyword. The 3. keyword @ 4-5.
Yahoo #4, #8 and #1-4
Keyword #1 = radarvarsler, #2 [Removed_for_spam], #3 whistler [Removed_for_spam].
(My competitor use the same keywords)

What should I do to be #1 with all my keywords? Do I have to rewrite in <h1> h2 h4 and so on? Any suggestions?

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Visit my webshop
www.bestpris.net

[Edgar]

This should help you out.

Optimization of osCommerce for Google and other search engines.

An import part of running your online business is to ensure people can find you. Below we show you how to make you osCommerce web site search engine friendly - helping to ensure your pages become indexed.

There are two relatively simple steps, the first is to define your meta keywords, and secondly to make your main products visible to search engine robots.

Adding META tags - keywords and descriptions, and adding a relevant Title

TITLE info is defined in catalog/includes/languages/english.php (and other language files you are using).
Add a relevant TITLE, see approximately line 48. And for Meta keywords and descriptions add the following two lines:
define('KEYWORDS', 'keyword1, keyword2, etc, etc');
define('DESCRIPTION', 'Seiretto: Serious about Web Hosting');

Obviously replace the text: 'keyword1, keyword2, etc, etc' and 'Seiretto: Serious about Web Hosting' with relevant text.

Then in your catalog/index.php approximately line 40 you will find the <title> tags
add the following two lines after </title>
<?php echo "<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"".KEYWORDS."\">"; ?>
<?php echo "<meta name=\"description\" content=\"".DESCRIPTION."\">"; ?>

and before </head>. Also, ensure you include the above two lines into catalog/product_info.php

Find out how to edit PHP files here.

How to ensure your top products are visible to search engine robots

The main issue here is dynamic urls, like:

http://Your-Site-.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=52af2425423161a

Search engine bots just don't like this kind of url format. So how do you create pages that will get indexed?

Create folders (i.e. http://Your-Site-.com/MyBestProduct/ ) and add an index.php file to each folder containing just this:

<?
chdir("../catalog/");
$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id']=1;
include ("product_info.php");
?>

You can create a folder for all products, but you should at least create folders for your most popular items. All you need to change in each index.php file is the number 1 to the relevant product number.

The folder names should be relevant to your products, if we were creating folders for our products then these would be:

/PHP-MySQL-Hosting/
/Web-Hosting-UK/
/osCommerce-Hosting-UK/
The folder names are relevant to keyword searches.

To ensure this is fully effective the new links should be linked from other pages within your site. A site map page can hold all the relevant links. To ensure your site map is found by search engine robots add a link to your site map from your footer.php file.

[Stig]

Thanks Edgar,

I`ll try it out in a couple of days

Regards
Stig - Norway

[montytx]

When I installed this I got the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in /home/downdogs/public_html/includes/functions/html_output.php on line 172

[garrygraham]

I have two simialr pages
http://www.exerciseadvice.co.uk

and

http://www.exerciseadvice.co.uk/faq.php

and wondered if the same meta tags should be used for both or whether I should make them different even though the pages are both pretty much the same.

[garrygraham]

Do pages that are in a different language require different language meta tags? And do duplicate, or near duplicate pages require differnt titles and meta tags just for the sake of it?

http://www.exerciseadvice.co.uk

http://www.exerciseadvice.co.uk/faq.php

http://www.exerciseadvice.co.uk/de_faq.html

http://www.exerciseadvice.co.uk/es_faq.html

these are all duplicates so should I have different meta tags or keep them the same?

[x000x]

use "Excercise Advice: Faq" as title in faq.html, all Titles and Descriptions must be closely relative, but it's better if they reflect current page's content...

[manmachine]

try to get links from sites that have alot of info about youre niches. Otherwise publish more info about the keywords you try to rank high for. Im from Sweden so quite close otherwise i could have helped you a little more specific

[clippingpath]

Hey EDGAR,
thanks for sharing this useful info and now I am trying myself for my website. Really thankful to you..