What determines the top line of the search result (the link to the page)? I thought it was the title tag in the page it is linking you to. That does not seem to be the case...can someone let me know? Thanks.
David
cdr6545
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Eric Rohloff (Rolly)
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This is quoted right from the help file for CC website search.
I don't know about top line but there's ways to make the search see and not see content.
After locating your site, our program follows all the links on that main page, it then follows all the links on those other pages and so on and so forth. This process goes on until your site is completely spidered. However, if you do not have a link to a page it will not be spidered. (How are we supposed to know it is there if you don't tell us?) This also includes password protected pages. (Our program cannot spider password protected pages at this time.)
For each of the spidered pages, our program collects the Title and all the text from the page. Including both linked and normal text. If you want a page to appear for a certain search term, you will want to add that word to the Keywords area of the Build Search window.
Another area you will want to look at is the Files tab in the Build Search window. If you have any file extensions which are not listed there, you will want to add them. If the extensions are not there, our program will not look for them when it scans and the pages will not be listed in your search.
I can't hear what I'm looking at when it's so easy to overlook something I'm not looking for.
Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/
I don't know about top line but there's ways to make the search see and not see content.After locating your site, our program follows all the links on that main page, it then follows all the links on those other pages and so on and so forth. This process goes on until your site is completely spidered. However, if you do not have a link to a page it will not be spidered. (How are we supposed to know it is there if you don't tell us?) This also includes password protected pages. (Our program cannot spider password protected pages at this time.)
For each of the spidered pages, our program collects the Title and all the text from the page. Including both linked and normal text. If you want a page to appear for a certain search term, you will want to add that word to the Keywords area of the Build Search window.
Another area you will want to look at is the Files tab in the Build Search window. If you have any file extensions which are not listed there, you will want to add them. If the extensions are not there, our program will not look for them when it scans and the pages will not be listed in your search.
Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/
cdr6545
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Eric..thank you for your reply. Here is the site URL - www.lowenbaumlaw.com/preview
I'm pretty sure the site is spidered because the results work and the actual link to the pages works, but I just want the text of the link to be the same as whatever is between <title> and </title> in the page that it is going to. Thanks.
David
I'm pretty sure the site is spidered because the results work and the actual link to the pages works, but I just want the text of the link to be the same as whatever is between <title> and </title> in the page that it is going to. Thanks.
David
Eric Rohloff (Rolly)
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I tested on your home page title and pasted the exact words into the search and the only result that came up was your home page.
I can't hear what I'm looking at when it's so easy to overlook something I'm not looking for.
Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/
I can't hear what I'm looking at when it's so easy to overlook something I'm not looking for.Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/
cdr6545
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Eric..perhaps you don't understand what I am talking about. OK..for example, if you do a search for "traditional". You should get 12 results. For the first result, the first line (which is the link to the page) says :
Lowenbaum Partnership LLC | Employment Law Attorneys, St. Louis Missouri, Union, Clayton MO
However, the title tag for that page is:
The Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC - Labor Relations Practice
I want the first line on each result (the link to that page) to be the same as the title tag for that page. Right now, all of the title tags are the same (as above) except for the Labor Relations page which I changed to see if what comes up on the first line is the title of the page...but it doesn't seem to.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
David
Lowenbaum Partnership LLC | Employment Law Attorneys, St. Louis Missouri, Union, Clayton MO
However, the title tag for that page is:
The Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC - Labor Relations Practice
I want the first line on each result (the link to that page) to be the same as the title tag for that page. Right now, all of the title tags are the same (as above) except for the Labor Relations page which I changed to see if what comes up on the first line is the title of the page...but it doesn't seem to.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
David
Eric Rohloff (Rolly)
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The only problem I see, How are you going to control what people type in your search box?
I can't hear what I'm looking at when it's so easy to overlook something I'm not looking for.
Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/
I can't hear what I'm looking at when it's so easy to overlook something I'm not looking for.Here's my S-Drive site with
examples of what can be accomplished in VSD.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/
Here's my CoffeeCup SCCP Shop with examples of what can be done.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/shop/
cdr6545
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Eric:
Not sure that I understand your question. What do I need to control and how does that relate to what is displayed on the link for the result?
David
Not sure that I understand your question. What do I need to control and how does that relate to what is displayed on the link for the result?
David
Jim Cantrell
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Your main problem is that it looks as though you have got the text below in every title of your pages:-
Lowenbaum Partnership LLC | Employment Law Attorneys, St. Louis Missouri
To be honest, it is bad practice to have the above text on every page.
Site Search is truncating the title after Clayton MO you really need to change the titles of each page so that they truly reflect what the page is about, that way you will get better search results.
Now for the important bit, with each title containing nearly all the same set of words, you are limiting the chances of your site being properly index by the main Search Engines.
Each page should have its own unique:-
Title tag
Description tag
Keywords tag
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I only looked at a few pages and the tags seemed to be almost exactly the same on each page.
If you want Search Engines to index your site properly you must do as I have said above.
Jim
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http://www.freebits.co.uk/
Lowenbaum Partnership LLC | Employment Law Attorneys, St. Louis Missouri
To be honest, it is bad practice to have the above text on every page.
Site Search is truncating the title after Clayton MO you really need to change the titles of each page so that they truly reflect what the page is about, that way you will get better search results.
Now for the important bit, with each title containing nearly all the same set of words, you are limiting the chances of your site being properly index by the main Search Engines.
Each page should have its own unique:-
Title tag
Description tag
Keywords tag
---------------------
I only looked at a few pages and the tags seemed to be almost exactly the same on each page.
If you want Search Engines to index your site properly you must do as I have said above.
Jim
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http://www.freebits.co.uk/
Tom
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Yes, for better seo, each page should have all of these objects that are specific to each page.
title tag
description tag
keywords tag
h1 tag
page content CoffeeCup... Yeah, they are the best!
title tag
description tag
keywords tag
h1 tag
page content CoffeeCup... Yeah, they are the best!
cdr6545
Registered User
10 posts
Jim...thanks for the reply. Yes, I realize that each title is the same and I am going to change them. That is why I changed the title for the Labor Relations page to: The Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC - Labor Relations Practice, to see if what I was trying to do worked. However, if I do a search on "traditional", that result comes up first, but the link still has that long old link that the other pages have. Doesn't that line (top line of each result) come from the title tags?
David
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