Using Miva Merchant and not Ranking Well in Google? Learn Why!
I recently ran across an interesting new newsletter offering
Search Engine Optimization help for Miva Merchant users. Miva
Merchant is an immensely popular E-Commerce product that adds
product catalog and order basket support to a Web site. If
your site uses Miva Merchant or you're thinking about switching
to the package, read carefully.
The default settings in Miva Merchant
will likely get your pages de-listed by Google. Apparently,
Google has long disliked pages generated by Miva Merchant.
Therefore, it is not surprising that you'll find few pages
generated by Miva's default settings in Google's index.
A little known secret to getting listed
in Google is to disable the Store_Code parameter in Miva merchant
URLs to keep those pages from being ignored by Google. Specifically,
if your URL contains "&Store_Code=" then Google
will skip it when it indexes your site. If you have only one
store, then disable the store feature in Miva Merchant to
work-around the problem.
Of course, you will still want to be sure
you do not break any other Google rules like creating mirrored
sites, duplicate content, and so forth.
Check out this online
resource to view more tips regarding optimizing Miva Merchant
for the search engines.
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