Page Names Effecting SERPS?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by samm27, Aug 19, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    Our site http://www.americancell.com is doing okay in the search engines, for a new site. Strangely, while 20+ pages appear in Google's cache, there are over 150 pages that do not. The category pages (like: http://www.americancell.com/q_blackberry.htm) are all cached but the product pages (like: http://www.americancell.com/buy-Cingular--BlackBerry-7290.html) are not.

    One suspicion I have is that we may have too many dashes in the page names of the product pages - does that sound right to anyone?

    If anyone can take a look and let me know if there is something else wrong with these product pages, I would really appreciate it!

    regards,
    Sam.
     
    samm27, Aug 19, 2005 IP
  2. NetMidWest

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    I don't think the problem is hyphens.
    It looks to me like an incomplete site - I'd love to have one of those Cingular Blackberry 7290's for -0.01.
    The description is messed up too - the end of the first paragraph reads:
    ...
    accounts, BlackBerry has also added more memory, high-speed da

    It cuts off in the middle of a sentence.
    Fix these problems, and make sure your souce validates, and you should be in better shape.
     
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  3. samm27

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    Thanks for the comments...

    The price is actually -0.01 meaning you get back $0.01 after rebates.
    And we sell a lot of these. (Look up "blackberry 7290" in Google)...

    The missing text problem will be fixed in a day or so. It's a database field length issue.

    regards,
    sam.
     
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    I have read where sitemaps don't really do you any better or worse.
     
    bigmacholmes, Dec 2, 2006 IP