Hey DP users... I need to promote a website that sells posters online. I think thinking that in all the Title texts I can add the word POSTER. Instead of : The crazy cat I will have : Poster - The crazy cat I have around 800 pages of products. Also : I would like to add the directory into the URL : Instead of : http://www.blablabla.com/products.asp?id=431 I will have : http://www.blablabla.com/posters/products.asp?id=431 Or http://www.blablabla.com/posters.asp?id=431 What do you say? I think it's showing the websites relevance for those keywords and not "spammy". What do you think will be the results of this changes in Google's results ? Thanks in advance for any help! Guy.
Should be a problem - if the product is a poster about a crazy cat then it should certainly have "poster" in the title
I would recommend "The crazy cat Poster" instead of "Poster - The crazy cat", and i think that renaming products.asp to posters.asp won't help. Renaming to http://www.blablabla.com/posters/products.asp?id=431 would be even worse. I think you should use an url rewriting technique. That would really help. Good luck
Hey bibel, that's for replying... 2 problems I have : 1. I cannot do a rewriting - I know about this option (this is every seo's wet dream) 2. The crazy cat poster sounds great, but I want to make an automatic procedure, and not having to change 1000 pages on the website. I am looking for an easy way to do it. Beside, why not putting a "POSTERS" as a directory or a file name ? What's wrong with that ?
By changing the filename, you have the word in the url, but without an url rewriting, i don't know if it counts. Maybe it does, but i doubt it. If you put a "POSTERS" directory, your page will go further away from the webroot directory, and making that sacrifice just for having "posters" in the url is just not worth it.
Naming your files or folders in the URL counts a lot, trust myexperience of 2 years of sitting in front of this damn box ...
names in files do make a difference. So if you can get 'posters' in there somehow, do so. Rewriting does create the problem of links to the old pages though.
Don't use id as the $_GET if at all possible this is where you would use the poster. 'id' is generally used to identify a SID and can cause some issues with being indexed. Try /products.asp?posters=the_crazy_cat I am wondering why a url rewrite isn't possible. Do you not have access to a .htacess file (or your Windows machine equivalent)?
as already discussed url rewrite would be better option instead of making a folder named poster and placing the files away from root as rewriting will help your url to appear more meaningful and its easier to get them indexed and you can use keywords in the url this way too..
SEO_KATE: Can you please explain with a sample url. I will very much appreciate your input. What is the url rewrite?
You can do that without any problems. You may also wish to do do some mod rewrite job and not use ?id=.... use insted something like www.site.com/category/sub-category/The_Blue_Cat_Poster.html