php and seo

[pcs800]

I have a web site that we have recently converted (rebuilt) to a dynamic siye using php, we use mod-rewrite to make the url's engine friendly. But they do not seem to be showing up in google or any other engine.
Anyone want to look at the site and give me an opinion on what we might do to fix this problem?

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

Thanks

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[ChrisHunt]

How recently is "recently"? It can take several weeks for results to find their way into search engines.

As for visibility/SEO tips, some engines only index the first x characters, so you're not doing yourself any favours by putting umpteen blank lines between each line of HTML - makes it a pain to debug too!

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[ChrisHirst]

well to be honest the only good thing that could happen to your site is you get banned. With over 4000 pages in google the majority of which are very poorly cloaked spam garbage doorway pages.

http://www.google.com/search?q=alli...TF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&start=10&sa=N&filter=0

even the url is a bit of a giveaway

http://www.bargainmonkey.com/doors/share/free-music-share-ware.htm.

take a look with javascript turned off!

until you get rid of all this crap on your site most of the SEs will ignore your new pages as duplicate content

The php code to generate the new pages is badly messed up as well, as it is putting in great swathes of white space into the page source this is not going to help the spiders crawl the site as it just adds overhead and is making the pages load much slower.




Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[pcs800]

Yes, I realize there are a lot of doorway pages out there that are still up on our domain. not knowing any better 2 years ago when we started, i made loads of those and they worked wonders, we get tons and tons of traffic and sales, but now that we have made the change to a dynamic site, we are getting rid of those pages. So no, the best would not be to get banned, eveybody starts somewhere.
In the mean time, i do not want to lose our traffic so i want to make sure the new pages will get indexed before completely taking down all the old doorways and static pages.
And i saw the white space that got added somehow, but did not know why. If you think it is the code that is doing the rewrite of the url, i will ask our programmer about it.
Thanks,

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[ChrisHirst]

No matter what you will lose traffic, The content will have to come off the pages before your new pages will start to get anywhere. Better to take the existing content off and add a text link to the new area of the site to guide visitors and spiders alike. All the links on the doorway pages are still pointing to other doorways so this is all the spiders are going to follow. After all these are already in the index so the new pages are more likely to be not indexed than anything.
Better still would be to use htaccess (assuming it's running on apache) to have a 301 redirects to the new pages, depending of course on how much control you have on the server. A custom 404 script wouldn't go amiss either.

The sooner you get the spam content down the better for you it will be, because for whatever reason, now it is very visible (at least for 15s) and it ain't going to take many spam reports to the SEs by a competitor before you are needing a new domain name.

the white space is not caused by the redirect it caused by an error in the script. somewhere in the code there is a loop adding a few newline chars to the page in between each template or database line read/write.





Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[pcs800]

we already have a custom 404 page in place for use when the doorways come off completely. 301 i will have to look up, but yes we are aware of the spam thing and like i said will be removing them. I am also in the process of taking the content off the doorways and replacing it with "you have reached an outdated page on our web, please click here or wait 15 seconds to be forwarded to our new site" With no keywords or description, this should phase the doorways out of the engines and let them follow a text link to the new site.

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com