Miva and Google

Any hope for dynamic pages?

[leroy]

Are there any good strategies for getting individual product pages from a miva site listed in google? Miva dynamically generates pages

A typical miva product page url (after optimization) looks like this:

[mywebsite.com...]

I haven't had much luck yet even though my site map (with all products listed) has a PR 5.

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld leroy,

Miva seems to come up once and again. My work around for it was a colleague and I built a PHP based parsing engine (sort of). Straight html pages that grabbed the miva content, stripped out some of the html and rewrote any links in the page. Works exceptionally well but is not easy to implement.

[tedster]

I've heard from some Miva users who succeeded with Google, but only AFTER they dropped the second dynamic variable (store=). Seems like having two variables is just too rich for Googlebot's digestion. But most Miva users only have one store, so this is often a useful approach.

[leroy]

Thanks for the feedback. Am using a couple of add on modules that shorten the links a lot so there are fewer "?" but maybe will have to look further.

Will google normally follow the links on a PR5 page (about 450 links per page that lead to individual products)?

[leroy]

One thing strange is that the googlebot will spider some miva pages and list them in google but not others.

For example, it will spider a page like this:

[mysite.com...]

but not like this:

[mysite.com...]

Any ideas anyone?