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My ecommerce site will CMS ecommerce. And I believe most of ecommerce site use some kind of CMS. This means all the contents are in database.
How google bot and other crawlers can go into database?
What is the best practice for those who use CMS ?
Your input will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Are you referring to Customer Management Software (CMS)? Google does not crawl this. It is part of your back office and not searchable by anyone unless they have access (or hack) into your database.
bots can only access what the public can access.
I meant content management system.
My question is that all the ecommerce software is database. So how we can make it SEO friendly.
JPnyc said "bots can only access what the public can access."
So it means bots can go through all the database of products, doesn't it.
Not quite. Search Engines only crawl what is public/posted on the website. They do not dig deep into database information.
SEO is handled on your web design by having good Page Titles, Meta Data, Content, and one-way links.
If you run a public knowledgebase where articles can be reached by using static URLs (not by initiating a search query only), I would recommend to generate a HTML page that contains a list of all URLs in the form of:
<Headline>: <URL to the knowledgebase article>
...
From your website, link to this HTML page.
Anyway, the algorithm behind search engines are very intelligent these days and it is hard (not to say impossible) to fool them. So what I describe above is a bit tricky, not really a black hat method, but also no good style.
You may give it a try nevertheless and report in a few days/weeks if you where able to find your knowledgebase articles in Google.
Do you mean a site map? Because a site map can have a very positive effect on search engine rankings.
Well, sitemap not really. I understood the poster's question that there is a database with information that should get indexed by search engines.
If there is no other way to access this database than performing search operations, it will not be scanned by robots (or have I missed latest developments ?). So as a workaround I would simply create an own list like
(of course written as a link using appropriate HTML)Code:Read an interesting article at: http://www.me.tld/CRM/search.cgi?query=interesting+article
Don't you think that this would be sufficient to make a robot spider this kind of information ? It was just a guess from my side without having tried that in reality before... :-)
Edit: Unlinked my sample URL; it was intended just being an example.
If the database is a XML file using appropriate tags, google would love to index it :)
that link doesn't work for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by marc77
Just for interest, can you provide us with the link to the required XML structure ?Quote:
If the database is a XML file using appropriate tags, google would love to index it
Anyway, guess few to no databases are available natively in this format.
@JPnyc:
You meanThis link should not work, it's just an example ;-)Code:http://www.me.tld/CRM/search.cgi?query=interesting+article ?
(The forum software automatically converted it into a clickable link, sorry).
You can try using RSS feed structure for example, check out it from my mobile blog for example at http://www.mobiblogi.com/articles.xml
and my every post is actually xml file, for example http://veikoh.freehostia.com/mblog/a...ll-in-beta.xml
w3school have tutorial of XML - http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp
Google is indexing XML format much better than HTML because it's search engine native language.
Crawler or bots cannot access your database. Because database are password protected. In fact database driven site are execute on server side and send html data to client side. When a crawler or normal visitor visit database driven site, it execute on server side & result send to client side.
I think that the original poster of this question does not password protect the database ;-)
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To make your store search engine friendly is mod rewrite your urls.Quote:
I meant content management system.
My question is that all the ecommerce software is database. So how we can make it SEO friendly.
googlebot does not have direct access to your database, just the pages that are generated by server side code that pulls data from the database, such as ASP/PHP etc.
In order to ensure that these pages are spidered effectively, you need to take a crash course in basic Search Engine Optimisation, as this is the key to ensuring that google and other spiders are able to index all your pages.
Make sure that you read the search engine's webmaster guidelines thoroughly before creating your site, think long and hard about navigation, and once built, create an XML sitemap and submit it to google.
Then get some decent, on-theme links from related sites, and wait for the search engine spiders to find your site.
Bear in mind that it can take some time to index millions of pages, so be very patient. It can take weeks, months or even years to index a site in full.
Of course, bear in mind useability throughout this process. Ensure you design your site for your users, and not the search engines. Put on a white hat and don't take it off. Ever ;)
you have to redirect those cms data to html pages over web.
data will come from cms and then it will be redirected to cms pages.
And those pages have URLs that are "found" as links and crawled by the bots. Some sites have tons of such links, whether they realize it or not and whether they like it or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by RonnieGaylord