For a current project I an not using Product and category pages at all though this also leads to the issue of having not many search engine results.
Indexing all search queries could also be an issue due to the amount of potential links although sites like staticice appear to be successful doing exactly this - not sure how they get around it.
My other thought is to somehow pass the product results that I would not be using as actual search queries and map these to the sitemap. I am trying to keep the results as simple and as accurate as possible and this could be a great way to provide better results for users and search engines alike.
To summarise using your demo website as an example:
Product pages will not be used
i.e http://www.webpricecheck.co.uk/product/Samsung-UE55H6400.html
The Product name that gets generated however will be used for the sitemap as a search query i.e
www.webpricecheck.co.uk/search.php?q=Samsung-UE55H6400
User generated searches will not be indexed.
Is this feasible?
Wow that seemed almost too easy.
Thanks again David!
Spoke too soon, here is the sitemap in question: {link saved}
It works with the original file though it doesn't generate the product name after search.php?q=
Sorry Fuzzy, use:
$sitemapHREF = $config_baseHREF."search.php?q=".tapestry_hyphenate($row["normalised_name"]);(this will also ensure that the clean version of the product names are used, as would normally be used in the product page URLs...)
Cheers,
David.
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Hello Fuzzy,
Sure - it would be straight forward to modify sitemap.php to generate search.php URLs for each product instead of the product page.
In that file, look for the following code at line 30:
$sitemapHREF = tapestry_productHREF($row);...and REPLACE with:
$sitemapHREF = $config_baseHREF."search.php?q=".tapestry_hyphenate($row["name"]);Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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