Hi everyone! I've been playing around with the eBay API and although my PHP skills are quite minimal, I have managed to build a basic site here: http://www.myvintageshopper.com/ My first question is, does the site load quickly for you or does it have a several seconds delay before the page fully loads? When I view the pages through my localhost, everything loads up pretty quickly considering it's pulling data from eBay in real time, but when I view them through the webhost I get a lag. I'm not sure if the lag is because my backwoods ISP stinks or because godaddy is slugging things down. I was also wondering about SEO and having all the eBay links. Does google or other search engines penalize you for having too many eBay links? Should I be masking the links (not worried about visitors seeing eBay links, just the search engine placement)? Do the search engines even care? I'm using nofollow in my robots meta tag, but not sure if that even helps or is necessary. Any other advice is always appreciated! Thank you all
It does load pretty slowly. The header loads, and then the auctions take forever to populate. I've got a couple BANS sites up, and I had a *horrible* time getting them to work on godaddy. They took absolutely forever to load. Same thing. The header would pop right up, but the auctions would take close to a minute. I have no problems now that I've switched to hostgator. As far as SEO, you're in good shape, because the page contents change dynamically. Google likes that. My BANS sites all indexed super quick, and I've got 1st page for a couple of good keywords with very little effort. I wrote a nice long step by step process on switching from Godaddy to hostgator on my blog, as well. Anyway, the layout and design look great. Good luck with sales.
Yes.. it's real slow for me. It's hosted at GoDaddy, did you have to use their proxy server for cURL/SSL handling.. that could be part of the problem. Wow.. it's still loading.. it's definitely slow. On the Google thing, I would look into cloaking. hanji
Here is a article about what curl_setopts() you should have with GoDaddy. http://www.devsnips.com/index.php/ID/3f9628110d76ad50bc70a108bb9abcb1/fuseaction/blog.detail.htm Not sure if this is the problem.. but might be a good direction to start. I use eBay API, and don't experience these lags. HTH hanji
Awesome, thank you all. Now I know the problem is godaddy, which I suspected to be the case. Guess it's time to finally make that switch!