Page Titles where URL customization is limited
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Hi all,
I'm working for a new company which has several websites built on the Miva Merchant 5.5 platform. I'm new to SEO and trying to improve one specific category of products. With Miva the URL structure is set to: "category/" or "product/".
I would have liked to have the ability to create URLs like "bike/beach-cruisers/mens-red-hawaiian.html". Since I cannot do that I'm trying to determine the best product name and page titles. Currently all of our titles have the word "bike". So when a category page is displayed, which shows over 100 products I get flagged in my campaign for over using the keyword "bike". However, if I take the work "bike" out of the page title I'm concerned that it would hurt us in the SERPs.
Another factor that I'm getting flagged for on my campaign is the fact that our navigation uses the same key words repeatedly in each link. I'm not sure if it's really hurting us or not. Below is an example.
I'm looking for some input on recommendations for product names and page titles. Below are some examples of what I'm working with. Any input or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Menu Sample:
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Bikes-Street-Blue-Mens
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Bikes-Street-Blue-Womens
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Bikes-Street-Blue-Kids
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Bikes-Street-Orange-Mens
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Bikes-Street-Orange-Womens
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Bikes-Street-Orange-Kids
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Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Blue-Mens
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Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Blue-Womens
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Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Blue-Kids
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Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Orange-Mens
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Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Orange-Womens
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Bikes-Beach-Cruiser-Orange-Kids
Current Page Titles/Name:
- Mens Bike Street Blue | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/mens-bike-street-blue.html
- Mens Bike Street Orange | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/mens-bike-street-orange.html
- Womens Bike Street Blue | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/womens-bike-street-blue.html
- Womens Bike Street Orange | XYZ Bike Mfg. - product/womens-bike-street-orange.html
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Mod rewrite .. DEF.....
I am not Familiar with miva but i am guessing they have a good support from the looks of it
http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/forums/forum.php
I would definitely try their support if you havent.
But you should definitely have an option ......
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I agree with you, mod_rewrite should help.
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Hi! We're going through old questions that are still marked unanswered. Did you decide to change things? Can you tell us what you did and any lessons learned? Thanks!
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I will look into the mod-rewrite. Thanks for the tip.
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The website has dozens of categories, with about 700 products.
I'll look into the plugin you mentioned. I haven't been able to find a way to control the "ALT" tag on the image as well. The CMS just defaults the image name into the ALT tag.
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Ok cre8tive1
-I think your CMS is structured with SEO in mind, the current URL structure help you not getting Duplicate content concerning your product pages.
if you wanted to have a product with a URL "bike/beach-cruisers/mens-red-hawaiian.html" then the Same Product will appear under "bike/mens/mens-red-hawaiian.html"
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Concerning Repetitive of the Keyword "Bike", In my opinion I dont think it will hurt your SERPS.
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Concerning Page Title i would suggest going with {Product Name} {Color} - XYZ
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You can try a mod_rewrite on apache or if its not a big website URL based redierction on .htaccess.
Therefore, you can actually layer the architecture in such a way to actually write something like a vanity URL.
That would solve your URL problem.
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