Google SitemapAdmin

[quantum]

It is fine to leave the robots.txt file as is for the moment. I would recommend learning more about this file though at the link I gave a few posts back, so you can then better judge for yourself what the experts tell you on robots.txt files, and what you want to allow and dissallow.

Different servers have different setups (mine also don't have cgi-bin), and you will have different needs for your website as opposed to others. So learning more about this will help you decide what is best for you.

[quantum]

I just added 'Allow: /' to my robots.txt file. Is that all I need do?

I am not sure on this, but the way you had it previously was sufficient to allow all bots, to all parts of your site.

[stargre]

I am not sure on this, but the way you had it previously was sufficient to allow all bots, to all parts of your site.

OK. I'll change it back. And once my site gets some traffic and sales, I will definitely try to learn some details along those lines. Just too anxious to get some sales now.

[quantum]

even after Google starts indexing your pages it may take a while before you start getting high enough traffic to get regular sales coming through (you are in a fairly competitive market). I would recommend setting up Google AdWords in the meantime to fill the gap while you are waiting for your organic rankings to improve.

You should also focus on getting other websites to link back to yours. This will also help increase the amount Google crawls your site, as well as improve your PageRank (this is displayed on the Google Toolbar).

Getting sites to link back to you is not always easy, especially if it is a one way link (i.e. you are not reciprocating), but this is a very important element if you want to improve your rankings with Google.

[stargre]

even after Google starts indexing your pages it may take a while before you start getting high enough traffic to get regular sales coming through (you are in a fairly competitive market). I would recommend setting up Google AdWords in the meantime to fill the gap while you are waiting for your organic rankings to improve.

You should also focus on getting other websites to link back to yours. This will also help increase the amount Google crawls your site, as well as improve your PageRank (this is displayed on the Google Toolbar).

Getting sites to link back to you is not always easy, especially if it is a one way link (i.e. you are not reciprocating), but this is a very important element if you want to improve your rankings with Google.

So, are you talking about shopzilla, google base, that sort of things? Or what other kind of website should I look at? Thanks for the tip.

[quantum]

So, are you talking about shopzilla, google base, that sort of things? Or what other kind of website should I look at? Thanks for the tip.

For the linking side of things, here are some articles that are worth reading to help you better understand link promotion:

http://www.seoreview.com.au/?cat=11

http://www.seoreview.com.au/ (top 10 SEO factors)

It is worth reading through this blog when you have time for more ideas to help promote your site.

[a_berezin]

All about Sitemaps including Sitemap protocol description and Sitemap FAQ.

Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

[rwoody]

I have Chemo's SEO URLs installed on a 1.3.5 site. I have this mod installed and all works well accept that the URLs are dynamic vs. SEO Friendly. Does anyone have the site map working so that it generates SEO friendly URLs?

[a_berezin]

I don't know how work last version "Chemo's SEO URLs". This GoogleSitemapAdmin use standard zen-cart function zen_href_link.

[samad64]

I have Chemo's SEO URLs installed on a 1.3.5 site. I have this mod installed and all works well accept that the URLs are dynamic vs. SEO Friendly. Does anyone have the site map working so that it generates SEO friendly URLs?

i also have chemo's SEO URL's installed.. running 1.3.6.. and this mod works perfectly fine (SEO friendly URLs)

view: http://www.getyourgameshere.com/sitemapproducts.xml