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Submitted by rolli1 on Wed, 2007-10-10 15:10 in

Hi David,
I have a problem with google. Google finds only 200 or so internal links although 30,000 sites are indexed. How can I manage the internal linkstructure in PT?

Regards

Roland

Submitted by support on Wed, 2007-10-10 16:13

Hi Roland,

Do you mean 30,000 pages indexed? If that compares favorably to the number of products on your site then I wouldn't worry about the internal links tructure unless you have a specific way in which you want to link pages. The brand and category pages (if in use) should make good internal linking.

If you have an idea for a specific type of internal linking that you would like to do I can certainly help you create the code and work out where it should go, so please let me know if you want any more help in that way...

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by rolli1 on Thu, 2007-10-11 09:02

Hi David,
I thought, that each page in T is linking to each other page in PT, so if 30,000 pages are indexed also 30,000 internal links should be found by google. But with my homepage googel findes only 6 internal links, and some of them are from pages outside of PT but in the same site.
If it is not the case that each page links to each other could this be done by a code?

Regards

ROland

Submitted by support on Thu, 2007-10-11 09:31

Hi Roland,

I'll look into this for you,

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by multiz on Thu, 2007-10-11 20:06

Roland,
The command link:yoursite.com only shows some links on Google (in general) -- while on Yahoo is willing to show much more.

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Submitted by rolli1 on Sun, 2007-10-14 08:41

Hi David,
oviously google only take the few links on the startpage as internal links. What can I do that also all other pages are linked together?

Regards

Roland

Submitted by support on Sun, 2007-10-14 08:49

Hi Roland,

There should be a fair amount of internal linking as it stands, despite the links not showing up in Google. All the product pages link to the merchant indexes for each merchant selling the product, as well as the review pages and of course back to the home page.

If you want to add fixed links, the file html/menu.php is included at the top of every page except the homepage, and by default only has a link back to the home page. If you wanted to add, for example, a link to the category index from every other page then you could add the HTML for the link in this file. For example, where you have:

<a href='<?php print $config_baseHREF?>'><?php print translate("Home"); ?></a>

add the following:

&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href='/category/'>Categories</a>

Cheers,
David.