Is Your eCommerce Site Search Engine Friendly?

[WebBizIdeas.com]

Do you know if the ecommerce software you are using is search engine friendly?

If you go to Google and type in: site:www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com are all product pages indexed? Are you #1 for the keywords you are targeting? If not here are some main areas you should evaluate:

• CGI-BIN and Scripting Languages
• Meta Data
• Page Titles
• URL Rewrites
• Hidden Session ID's
• Heading Tags
• ALT Attributes
• Flash Navigation
• JavaScript Navigation
• Frames
• Coding to Standards

To read, understand, and best of all see incorrect / correct examples of each of the bullet points above go here: http://www.merchantmetrix.com/shopping-carts/cart-eval.html.

Jeff

[Brian Turner]

Here's a tip - for determining which pages are in Google's main index as opposed to supplemental index, type:

site:www.mydomain.com/*