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I am supporting a website here in Scotland that sells clean widgets etc. I am monitoring results published by Google and concerned as to what is being provided.
Using a number of search terms from the product range on the site, I am seeing results on Page 1 of Google such as:
[secure.myhost.com...] catalog/product_info.php/products_id/24 - which I beleive should not be the desired result. Although also on Page 1 for the same search term I used I do see this result www.mydomain.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/24 -
Now if I was a site visitor looking to purchase the first link is going to be a barrier for sure because the visitor is immediately faced with a security alert. Whereby clicking on the other option offered is really where the visitor should start their experience.
What does this canny scotsman need to do not to have Google list organic returns for Option A,, whilst I am happy that Option B is ranking on Page 1, it is not really clicking with me what I am doing right to achieve Option B and what am I doing wrong that is giving Option A.
confused - yes I am - who can write me a prescription to ease the pain!
By the way I joined Webmaster after reading weeks of excellent threads from some really knowledgable people gathered in here. I am already considering upgrading and paying into this site!
[edited by: shri at 2:14 am (utc) on Mar. 23, 2006]
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This is a tough one, as the problem is not specific to OSCommerce -- it is more related to Google and probably a misconfiguration on the host side of things.
I'd recommend taking a look at this thread to start with.
[webmasterworld.com...]
By the way, have you asked your hosting company why they're serving up your pages through the SSL / secure server?
Many thanks for this reply and I will study the thread you signpost me to in a little more detail, but your point in talking with the host company is one I hadn't considered and this is another I will certainly pursue
Look at HTML source of your page, especially
1. <base href="http://..."> -- what is there?
2. does some links inside pages miss http://, like
a href="www.mydomain.com" -- really, this should be a href="http://www.mydomain.com"
I suppose, a combination of <base href="http://https://secure.myhost.com/"> and missed "http://" in links can provide you undesired results you are dealing with.
[edited by: lorax at 2:39 pm (utc) on Mar. 29, 2006]
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