Google and New E-Commerce website!

[jnmconsulting]

Hello all,

I have a website that I put online a few months ago. It is coded with coldfusion and MS SQL 2000 datbase. I have the site setup using a modified MOD rewrite for coldfusion to have the URL look like www.mysite.com/key_word.cfm/productnumber

It is set up in a way that each of the 2000 products basically has its own page with relivant description, prices, part numbers, sizes, and categories and subcategories. The meta title, and description is dynamic based on the product that is being viewed by the user and/or bot, hte users are not able to see the meta obviously.

This may not be enough information, not sure.

My question finally... Does google frown upon this type of setup? Would the bot even care?

The main reason for this is to ensure that each product description, information, and part numbers are indexed because the end users use all sorts of different key words to search for these products.

Also, In the dynamic meta title and description I have my static main key words so that they are placed throughout the site.

comments and suggestions?

[jnmconsulting]

Anyone!

[robho]

I have a site set up in a similar way, also with auto-generated metatags (however, the tags relate entirely to the content of the page, I don't sprinkle general phrases in).

Works fine, Google loves it, has indexed 160,000 pages so far and many of the (less competitive) keyword phrases are on the first page of the SERPS and getting traffic.

But I have simple URLs without that dot-cfm in the middle.

[cyberair]

Underscores are NOT seen as spaces in the Google search engine, dashes are. Therefore, I would recommend for you to change it to

widgets.com/widget-keyword/productnumber

[jnmconsulting]

Thanks for the information I will implement some of these ideas this weekend.

[siteseo]

Cyberair, why do you say that? I've seen both underscores and dashes get picked out of URL's by G. Although I personally do prefer dashes, Google proper uses underscores in their file names, not dashes.

[Lorel]

I used an underscore to separate the words in a new page's file name and it is now one of my highest traffic pages in G.

Lori

[MHes]

>I've seen both underscores and dashes get picked out of URL's by G

Different technology running. What you see in the cache or serps pages is just a simple search tool running, not the ranking algos at work.

[prairie]

I agree -- dashes or underscores is probably not "make or break."

[cyberair]

There are plenty of sources that indicate this. I am not saying that G won't pick up sites with underscores. However, they are not seen as spaces; dashes are.

Ranking high has little to do with your domain, and the fact that a webpage with underscores ranks high doesn't mean anything.

What you should understand is that G can separate and identify words. So, example: widgetparts.com can be picked up by G for a "widget parts" search because it identifies the two words. The same goes for domain.com/widget_parts.

Now, in both examples above, G doesn't see a space between "widget" and "parts". It only recognizes that they are two words.

In another example: widgetstarts.com a search for "widget starts" could be picked up, but so could a search for "widgets tarts". Same goes for domain.com/widget_starts , it can pick up both searches.

widget-starts.com or domain.com/widget-starts.com will specify a space and identify exclusively the words "widget" and "starts".

Quoting Google Guy, "I would go with hyphens, personally."
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[encyclo]

As for the hyphen/underscore debate, I personally prefer hyphens, but underscores should work. If your pages have been successfully spidered/indexed already, for heaven's sake don't change it now.

Are you getting 200 unique pages, or are there several pages which exist for each product, with different file names but the same content? If every page is unique and available at one URL only, and you've carefully categorized everything, it sounds like a good, customer-focussed, useful site - just what Google should like. If you've got duplicate content, you're going to find things difficult.

[jnmconsulting]

well, I would say yes...

what I see in gogle is

www.mysite.com/key_word/1234

this url will then give all the related information for the product ID of 1234

key_word is the page name and /1234 is the product ID

wich normally would look like:
www.mysite.com/key_word.cfm?product_id=1234

So I'm assuming it is not duplicate content, not sure what google thinks