Hi,

just wondering is there a way I can improve my google rank seo through couch cms?
According to piwik reports my pages are not even ranked on google which is really bad, I put a lot of effort into creating my page, I really could use some tips.
Can you please give me few pointers on how to improve this?

[trendoman]

Hi @diverso,

this might be of your interest then viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7173

Hi @diverso,

this might be of your interest then viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7173

Thank you, however now I really need help in order to set those files up properly, still can't get a handle on what shall I write on the sitemap.php and especially on my .htaccess don't want to mess up that one and risk downtime, I tried to post on the other thread but nobody replied, can you please help me?

[trendoman]

Do you already have a static sitemap for your site?
If not, you probably should do it and submit to google search panel for site owners.
this generator can do the job https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

When you have it done, post a link to your sitemap here and we'll take a look at it from the perspective of couch'ifying. Do you think we can go this way?

Do you already have a static sitemap for your site?
If not, you probably should do it and submit to google search panel for site owners.
this generator can do the job https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

When you have it done, post a link to your sitemap here and we'll take a look at it from the perspective of couch'ifying. Do you think we can go this way?

Yes! thank you so much, let's go this way, here is my sitemap, I didn't make any changes to the generator so I've generated with default settings. I got sitemap.xml file now here.

Hope is ok.

Result is not so amusing, I get 17 broken links, doesn't sound good, I'm wondering how to fix that?
Also I'm wondering since I've two languages site, how can the urls be translated as well, (right now I got two languages content but only one language url) I'm no expert but that might have an effect on sef url?

I'm truly looking forward for your guidance here!

[trendoman]

Wow, you seem to look for a complete seo solution here
Not sure i can provide this at its fullest scope.

At first, correct duplicated urls:

http://www.designdiverso.com/index.html
http://www.designdiverso.com

This is not welcomed by search engines. Google for htaccess redirect for index page.
Once this is resolved, we can dig in to more serious stuff

[trendoman]

The above ^^ issue is a subissue of not letting Couch manage your links. You have set up pretty urls on your site, but links seem to be hardcoded in html as "/about.php". It affects broken links issue as well. So, for any direct link do something like:

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<a href="<cms:show k_site_link />img/home/enersporttablet.jpg"></a>

Make sure not to put a slash.
For template names do:

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<a href="<cms:link 'about.php' />" ></a>

This is a must have for seo and to go forward with anything.

Wow, you seem to look for a complete seo solution here
Not sure i can provide this at its fullest scope.

At first, correct duplicated urls:

http://www.designdiverso.com/index.html
http://www.designdiverso.com

This is not welcomed by search engines. Google for htaccess redirect for index page.
Once this is resolved, we can dig in to more serious stuff

let me see if I got this right

is this a correct link format? <cms:pages masterpage='index.php' page_name='index'>

also I've these in the navigation:

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<li><a href="/about.php"><cms:get "<cms:show my_lang />_menu_content2"/></a></li> 

that I'm changing into:

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<li><a href="about.php"><cms:get "<cms:show my_lang />_menu_content2"/></a></li>

Is there any other link that I shall fix? Shall I go ahead and do this to every page?

The above ^^ issue is a subissue of not letting Couch manage your links. You have set up pretty urls on your site, but links seem to be hardcoded in html as "/about.php". It affects broken links issue as well. So, for any direct link do something like:

Code: Select all

<a href="<cms:show k_site_link />img/home/enersporttablet.jpg"></a>

Make sure not to put a slash.
For template names do:

Code: Select all

<a href="<cms:link 'about.php' />" ></a>

This is a must have for seo and to go forward with anything.

Hi there, just wondering if you saw my reply, am I headed down the right path? Shall go ahead and remove all the slashes?

[trendoman]

@diverso,

When Google bot visits your page at this address: http://www.designdiverso.com
it indexes the content it gets. After that, it happens to visit this link http://www.designdiverso.com/index.html and it thinks it is a different page. Bot indexes the content and now sees that content is the same. Sites with duplicated content are ranged lower in SERP.

What i told you to do is to get some knowledge on this. Search for a complete solution to this with help of .htaccess file. You seem to ignore

I don't mind that at all. If you are in rush, i'm sure there are many seo in-knows available locally.

There is a couch version of permanent redirects. More read here: http://docs.couchcms.com/tags-reference/redirect.html

Reference for links:
http://docs.couchcms.com/tags-reference/link.html
http://docs.couchcms.com/concepts/pretty-urls.html

I strongly advise you to follow the tutorial or refresh it if you did.
http://docs.couchcms.com/tutorials.html

Looks, you need to get back to basics and there is nothing wrong with that. Unless you want to end up grasping the tops and leave roots in soil. As an example of such waste of resource is your removed slash in some arbitrary way and place. You were given an example of how to do it properly for the mentioned template.