D.J., I am testing ns2007.1, is the code to handle bots requesting URL's containing jsessionid's and ?sc=x&category=y implemented in ns2007.1? Stated another way, issue 126602 is for redirecting bots who request url's with jsessionids. In my brief testing, this does not appear to be working for jessionids nor sc=... Please…

Tom, I cannot think of an easy way to have NetSuite change the home page. One could write a program to do it. The only way I can see to change how the images would work is to host the images on a non-NetSuite server. You would use something like assets.SignsDirect.com/images/stop-sign-large.jpg

Something I always thought really helped out my current site: main home page can have 20 items but if I choose more then 20 the products randomly rotate so, the homepage is different every time. Any reality to this? Jack - There are two things (among others) that search engines love -- content and change to that content.…

Do you just stop using Google analytics when the URL switch is made? Correct. We want to use GA but it is not reliable as it stands now.

First, lets talk about some cool commands to enter in the search engines. You will enter these in the search box on the search engine page. Please make sure you replace mysite with your site name! site:www.mysite.com - This will show you all of the URL/pages the search engines have in their index. link:www.mysite.com -…

D.J., Thanks for the feedback. I have had the following redirect for at least a week. redirect from /%20tinsel-trees-christmas-c-134_219.html it is supposed to redirect to /Artificial-Christmas-Trees/Color this is not working for me. Any suggestions?

d.j., Just checked on Google, it has 7 URL's jsessionids. Below is a sample. All of the ones in the Google cache have /s.nl/sc... http://www.christmastreeforme.com/s.nl/sc.7/.f;jsessionid=ac112b1e1f430bfe4c355b1d4409afd6a0c67e64f40e.e3eTaxaQbxmTe34Pa38Ta38Oaxj0 This redirects to an seo friendly URL without the jsessionid.…

Julian, Great Question!! Related to duplicate content, you want to do everything you can to reduce duplicate content. The page title is a huge factor in "on page" SEO, that said I would hope the search engines would recognize that while the page title on page 1 and page 2 are identical that the body of the page has…

I will be posting on ns2007.1 SEO improvements this week. I have a ton of notes that I need to check. Prior to ns2007.1, if you had a featured item on your home page, when you clicked on that item, the page title would be incorrect. In v2007.1, the page title is now fixed for featured items.

I have seen changes made show up in Google within 24 hours. Yahoo generally takes a bit longer. It really is a function of how often the given search engine comes to your site. If the search engine feels your site has new content daily, then it will come by daily.

I am not sure how the URL would have been presented to NetSuite but I have about 20 of these and they are for VERY important pages. This was the result of my own stupid mistake. I cannot believe I did not catch this before I went live... NetSuite support case 613251 Can anyone at NetSuite give me some IMMEDIATE relief on…

Julian & Tom, The following is not an optimal solution but it might work for you. Both Google and Yahoo support CSV formats for Sitemap. CSV is not optimal because you cannot specify priority, update interval or last edit date. Priority is the only one important to me and that is simply a "suggested" flag in the event of a…

As an update: Google now shows 4 url's with jsessionid. This is down from 7. Probably not much to read into here. MSN, Yahoo and ASK have 0 url's with jessionid's. Is this because Netsuite is not presenting jsessions to them or because of the robots.txt exclusion? Not sure and I doubt anyone knows for sure. That said,…

Very interesting. I just found out that ";" (semicolon) is indeed an accepted parameter. I was playing with the new Yahoo dynamic url beta. It allows you do update the urls with jsessionid to something standard. For example, you could have it drop the jessionid or have it hardcode to something else. Anyone know what would…

Someone posted a question today that made me realize just how many ecommerce sites are not using the core tools of SEO. If you do not have accounts with Google Webmaster Tools and/or Yahoo Site Explorer, it would be highly recommended that you sign up this week. If you only sign up for one, choose Google. Google…

Suite, To further your point on inurl, this is a great way to see if the search engines have any URL's with parameters. For example: site:www.mysite.com inurl:jsessionid site:www.mysite.com inurl:sc= site:www.mysite.com inurl:chrole

Tom, No you are not missing anything. I was not clear. Google, Yahoo and Ask allow you to have multiple Sitemaps. You could have: sdsitemap_item.csv sdsitemap_infoitem.csv sdsitemap_category.csv (sd=signsdirect.com) Use the saved search to create the first two. Assuming sdsitemap_cateogory.csv does not change that much.…

On www.live.co.uk I did: site:http://www.lampspecs.co.uk You can click on this URL: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.lampspecs.co.uk&go=&form=QBRE I see "?chrole=17" on a couple of places. One thing that bugs be is that www.lampspecs.co.uk/s.nl/sc.3/.f?chrole=17 Points to your cart, I am trying…

It works, we have 4 sitemap files, one for each of the following: 1) Items 2) Categories 3) Information Items 4) One index file to give to the search engines. At some point, we will convert the item process from using the Save Search results to web services but it works fine now. Thank you to NetSuite for wsdl v2.6 or this…

I have found that using + works in some areas of NS for replacing a space or %20 Thank you for the thought, I tried the + and it is not working. Bummer...

NetSuite Support Case: 612255 The list of urls with jessionids and other parameters is attached to the case.

Paul, ...message on my Google Web-master tools about this issue... First, Would you share the message you see in Google Web-master tools? Is it a duplicate content issue? Also: 1) It appears your left nav is being generated by <NLCOLUMNCONTENTS>. Would you confirm this is true? 2) Would you confirm that your item list, is…

Meta descriptions are generally misunderstood. You can set the meta description for the home page, categories, information page, item pages, etc. There was a time frame about 2-3 years ago where people said that setting the meta description for each page was not worth the effort. IMHO - the meta description is the first…

After being live since 8/22/2007, this is the current thought on robots.txt #Block Googlebot-Image User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: / User-agent: * #Disallow: /s.nl #Prefer not to do this because of broad implications Disallow: /s.nl/sc.3 #Cart Disallow: /core/media/media.nl #image handler #* works for Google not sure…

d.j., There was a window a few weeks (about a year ago) that this logic wasn't working I would like to make sure I am providing clear feedback on this. Our site went live around August 22. In our robots.txt, we have Disallow: /*jsessionid=* Google Webmaster Tools provides a list of URL's that are being blocked by…

D.J., Looking at these jsessionid's. The ones I am seeing in Google are NOT parameters: http://www.mysite.com/;jsessionid=0a0004471f4393e96af38acb409fb6c1f3a89198cf9f.e3iKaNePch4Re34Pa38Ta38Nbxz0 Is there something I could be doing? Is this a case where a redirect is occurring at the same time the jessionid is assigned?…

Paul, Since you are 100% sure that each item will be in one and only one category, the setting /tab_name/category_name/item_name will be fine. Since this is an unmodified NetSuite template and I assume you do not have the NetSuite license to modify the templates, I would suggest that NetSuite is the only entity that can…

Paul, After further thought: 1) If the item is listed in more than one category, then the original post below is my best guess. 2) If the item is listed in ONE category, then the original post below should be qualified with: If the item is listed in ONE category, then I would concur that this is something NetSuite should…

Paul, As always, great point. I am going to modify the saved search and have it send me the urlcomponent. I will add the site in the process. thanks again!

This is my thinking as of 10/1/2010. When this thread was originally created, SEO was different. As of today, I've scaled the robots.txt down significantly to this: ---------------------- User-agent: * Disallow: /s.nl/sc.3 #Cart Old Disallow: /s.nl/sc.3/.f #Cart New ---------------------- Why am I doing this? 1) With…