So you have read Oscommerce SEO – Part1 SEO URLs and you want to know how to further better your oscommerce store.
In part 2 now will cover dynamic meta tags, The main point of this contribution is the give each page of your store and products some unique meta content. (Title, Description and Keywords)
The reason for this is to improve your search engine position, and increase the amount of pages indexed, by creating dynamic meta tag for each product page, Google will see that each page a unique and not place the pages in the supplemental index thus also improving you search engine placement.
There are several oscommerce contributions that will do this, but the one i found that does this best is cDynamic Meta Tags.
It a very easy contribution to install, make sure you fully read the installation instructions and ALWAYS backup your store before do any modifications.
Once installed you can tweak the settings in /includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php
Tags: Oscommerce, Oscommerce Meta Tags, Oscommerce SEO, seo, SERPs
02.Dec.07 
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There are 2 main contributions that you will need to apply to a standard oscommerce install, the first one that i shall talk about today is called Ultimate SEO URLs.
What this osc contribution does is rewrites the standard dynamic URLs to more SE friendly and keyword rich URLs
in short it would turn a url from this:
www.domain.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=1
to something more descriptive like this:
www.domain.com/article-directory-turnkey-script-p-1.html
You can can clearly see how the second URL would be more descriptive and better picked up by search engines.
The installation is quite straight forward and well documented by Bobby AKA Chemo, but If you need help installing the contribution you can contact the store owner of this oscommerce hosting site. I highly recommend his work.
Tags: Oscommerce, Oscommerce SEO, seo, SEO URLs
15.Nov.07 Oscommerce SEO Comments (0)
Updating your ping list could be a good way for you to get more traffic to your blog and more backlinks for free.
When you write a new blog post and publish it, wordpress automatically pings http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
thus notifying it of a new blog post. If you update your ping list to include the following services. more sites and people will be aware of your new blog post and now you potentially have a better chance of getting more people to visit your blog
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
To update the list go to your wordpress admin section and then go to options / writing
you will see update services at the bottom of the page, copy and paste the above list there.
Tags: Backlinks, Blog SEO, Ping List, seo, Wordpress
23.Oct.07 Backlinks, SEO For Blogs Comments (0)
An important factor to remember when first setting up your site is to decide how you would like your URL’s to be displayed. you should choose one and then stick to it.
For example, do you want your name to be displayed as
bettermychance.org
or
www.bettermychance.org
Personally i prefer the more traditional method including the www. at the front of the URL.
So what do i need to do once i have decided the format i want my URL to be displayed in?
The following bit of code needs to be placed in your sites root directory in a file called .htaccess
If you don’t have one, create one via ftp.
If you have decided to go for the www version you need to use the following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.co\.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
Remember to change example for your own domain.
If you want to use the non www version use this code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Again remember to change the example for your own domain.
This is designed to work on Linux servers and will not work on windows server based hosting
Tags: 301 redirect, htaccess, mod rewrite, non www, seo, www
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