Website search question

3 Jan 2009, 3:06 AM

#1

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Website search question

Hi,

I just recently added my site to Google and did a search of my website, https://www.thrift4kids.com, putting in just names 'Thrift 4 kids' and 'site thrift 4 kids' in the search box and the following came up:

*Privacy Notice : Thrift 4 Kids!, The Online Clothing Store for ... - 6:56pmThrift 4 Kids does not collect or store any credit card information. We use PayPal Website Payments for all purchases. As part of the order process, ...
thrift4kids.com/hp_zencart/index.php?main_page=privacy - 11k - Cached - Similar pages -

Footwear : Thrift 4 Kids!, The Online Clothing Store for kids ...Thrift 4 Kids! : Footwear - Boy's Clothes Girl's Clothes Hats,Gloves,Bibs & More Clearance Footwear Books online thrift store,kids clothes,accessories ...
thrift4kids.com/hp_zencart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6 - 11k - Cached - Similar pages -

My website goes blank when changing my tagline - Zen Cart Support - 12/26/08page title define('TITLE', 'Thrift 4 Kids!'); // Site Tagline define(' SITE_TAGLINE', 'The Art of E-Commerce');

OshKosh's Genuine Kids Dress w/ Diaper Cover/12 Months [426 ...Zen Cart*

My question is: Why does this type of info come up and not just my website name and a bit of the content I have on my main page?

Thanks!

3 Jan 2009, 3:13 AM

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kobra

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Re: Website search question

My question is: Why does this type of info come up and not just my website name and a bit of the content I have on my main page?
They crawl pages and that is the reason....

Think about it - -NOBODY that shops searches for thrift4kids.com they do search for OshKosh, Boy's Clothes, Girl's Clothes, Hats, Gloves, Bibs etc etc

And why you need to use the product & category meta descriptions to full advantage and insure that your product descriptions "echo"/include your meta description terms

You want shoppers to find what you sell and by proxy your site - - it does not work the other way around as they do not search for your domain name

3 Jan 2009, 3:25 AM

#3

mw4kids

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Re: Website search question

got it...makes sense. Thanks!!

3 Jan 2009, 3:49 PM

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mprough

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Re: Website search question

BTW

I answered your sitemap question.... Your link to the development cart is in your installation

See the head of your pages here

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Thrift 4 Kids!, The Online Clothing Store for kids clothing,accessories,and books</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Boy's Clothes Girl's Clothes Hats,Gloves,Bibs & More Clearance Footwear Books online thrift store,kids clothes,accessories,childrens books,thrift shopping,thrift store directory,thrift shop listings, thrift store listings,bargain shopping, childrens resale, used baby clothes " />
<meta name="description" content="Thrift 4 Kids! - Boy's Clothes Girl's Clothes Hats,Gloves,Bibs & More Clearance Footwear Books online thrift store,kids clothes,accessories,childrens books,thrift shopping,thrift store directory,thrift shop listings, thrift store listings,bargain shopping, childrens resale, used baby clothes" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart™ Team and others" />
<meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart™, http://www.zen-cart.com eCommerce" />

<base href="http://thrift4kids.com/hp_zencart/" />

Notice that you are redirecting from http://thrift4kids.com/ to http://thrift4kids.com/hp_zencart/

Move your Zen Cart to the root if that is where you want it :clap:

~Melanie

6 Jan 2009, 12:33 AM

#5

mw4kids

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Re: Website search question

thanks melanie! there wouldn't happen to be a tutorial on how to do this? :blush:

6 Jan 2009, 1:07 AM

#6

mprough

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Re: Website search question

Yep, there sure is https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=122

Its not very hard, you can easily manage this and your store will rank better without the redirect as well.

Cheers,
Melanie

6 Jan 2009, 3:43 AM

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mw4kids

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Re: Website search question

Thanks!