Pro help needed

[pcs800]

I have a site that was recently converted to a dynamic content php-mysql driven site. Google and other engines are starting to index our new dynamic pages but are not reading the paragraph text on the page for some reason.
using this link

http://www.google.com/search?q=site...search+-wmtz&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N

Notice there is no description under most of the links indexed for my site.
The site is

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

by the way.
I have read that search engines see what the user see's on a page, not the code that creates what the user see's. Why then is there nothing under the link to our pages at google?
Note: you may find that some of these links lead to pages that don't exist anymore, our database gets updated weekly so these are products that are no longer available.
We really need some help understanding why this is happening,
Thanks.

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[ChrisHirst]

Google shows a snippet of text from the page relevant to the search phrase. a site: search may or may not show anything. Pages that are returning a 404 also will just show a url instead of a title. However most of your pages have no content beyond the anchor text to show a snippet from.
Also some pages have a meta tag that tells the robots not to come back for 14 days. And you are missing out on one of the most important factors in SEO as well, the page title.



Chris.

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

 

[pcs800]

we are not missing page title, it is in the php code.
the code generates title, keywords and description from the content of the page.
You are probably clicking links to product pages that no longer exist as stated above.
look at the source of this page and you'll see what i mean.

http://www.bargainmonkey.com/proddtl/PId/1500538/

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[ChrisHirst]

I realise that, but this page

http://www.bargainmonkey.com/prodlist/DId/2781/

just says ribbon.
ok ribbon? printer ribbon, hair ribbon, ribbon cable? etc.

and there is no text apart from product codes for the SEs to display on the results page. A brief description of each item would be all that is needed.



Chris.

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

 

[pcs800]

ok, i see what you mean. Yes on that particular php page that generates those listings, we need to include the previous sub category in the title so it would read "printer supplies - ribbon"
I will get that changes.
As for a brief description, most product do have a brief description in that list, but it is dependant on the product catelog our site is reading from. So there is nothing I can do about some of those products not haveing any description.

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com