Thanks Anthony,

I'm glad you like the site

I think I'm going to simply display login form directly on the checkout page if user is not logged and use canonical url to inform the crawlers that it is serving login page. We don't have access restriction to the basket so we shouldn't have a problem with it and out registration and login forms are on the separate pages - so again, these could be easily indexed by search engines.

Thanks for the advice - much appreciated!

Thanks Alan - although I'm not sure what your suggestion to the problem is here.

We do have the redirect after login to point back to the checkout, but this isn't really the problem.

The fact that checkout is redirecting to the login is what the problem is referring to.

I'm not bothered whether search engines will drop the juice to the checkout page as it's behind the login anyway - I just want to make sure that the Warning is gone saying that there's a temporary redirect.

From what I can see the only way to do it is to serve the login page if they are not logged in under the checkout url and use canonical url to indicate that it is in fact the url of the login page.

It is a shame though that there isn't an option to inform search engines that the page they are trying to access is login protected.

Thanks Anthony,

The system is custom built so I can modify it the way I really need, however I cannot  allow guest checkout as each purchase is associated with the account and in order to access goods (which in this case are video tutorials) user has to have an account so it wouldn't work that well in this situation.

An option perhaps would be to display login on the checkout page if user is not logged in, however in this case I will have a problem with duplicate content, unless I use the canonical url to indicate that checkout page is actually serving the login page.

We don't provide the after login access to the crawlers so that shouldn't be a big problem I guess.

Do you think this scenario would work?

Ok - anyone knows what to do with the temporary redirect to the login page?

In our e-commerce system we have a checkout page, which requires user to be logged in - if they are not, we redirect them to the login page using simple php header("Locaiton: url"). This however has been found as a Warning as it's a temporary redirect. I can't really put there permanent redirect for obvious reasons so if someone could give me some clue on this situation that would be much appreciated.

Domain length extends your urls, and long urls are seeing as a negative factor. My recommendation would be to forget about hyphens - as these are also additional characters and are more difficult to type together with the rest of the alphanumerical characters on the keyboard.

As to the length - keep it short and do not try to put all of the words from your phrase in the domain - try to use the most important ones and no more than 3 combined together. For instance I would convert your domain : whatisgoingoninfrancerightnow.com to something like : francerightnow.com or even francenow.com

The reason behind it is that words such as: what, is, right etc. do not really give you any keyword value. Your main keyword would be France and then something to indicate that you want to relate to the current time - like 'now'.

The rest of the keywords could be easily included in the page names and that should give you a perfect structure to drive your SEO.

If they follow then you could also check:

• whether the directory actually has some ranking already and has been around for a while

• how many links they usually put on one page before paging to the next one

• check if the listing pages of the recently added entries (usually last ones) are already in Google index - I normally do it by checking their PageRank - if it's at least white (I use Quirk SearchStatus plugin for Firefox) that means Google is already aware of them - which indicates that they crawl this directory pretty frequently for new content / pages

• try to perform a search on Google for a specific keyword - the category you want to submit your link to and see what's their position for it

Obviously you would do all this if you had a lot of time to go through each directory separately, but it might be worth wile if you're planning to get some links in the different way then the generic links from the visitors.

Most of the submissions will give you a link with attribute rel set to nofollow - and these don't really give you any SEO benefit, so it is quite important to first check the other listings and see whether they have this attribute and value assigned to the anchor - if so, then the only benefit you will get is the visit if someone actually clicks on the link in the listing and gets to your site.

The first meta tag refers to the Internet Explorer - you can read about it a bit more here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/06/10/introducing-ie-emulateie7.aspx

The other meta tags are referring to the size of the view port - based on the condition whether the device that is used to preview the page is a mobile device or not.

You can also see the meta title and description tags:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Meta description is wrapped with the conditional statement.

My suggestion would be to remove these lines:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

And place your standard meta title and description above:

Hopefully this should solve your problem.

Here are a few guides on how you can do it:

http://www.studentscrunch.com/2012/03/how-to-add-meta-tags-to-blogger-blogger.html#

http://www.bloggertricks.com/2007/12/adding-meta-tags-to-bloggerblogspot.html

Unfortunately Blogger doesn't provide the tools to do it using any specific interface, so you will have to simply paste the tags into the html.

If your website is dynamic (database driven) then you can generate the sitemap using programming language. This way you are always up to date - whenever you add new page it's automatically added to the sitemap - no need to run external application every time that happens.

I'm soon going to be recording a video tutorial on how to do it with PHP and DomDocument.

Most of the submissions will give you a link with attribute rel set to nofollow - and these don't really give you any SEO benefit, so it is quite important to first check the other listings and see whether they have this attribute and value assigned to the anchor - if so, then the only benefit you will get is the visit if someone actually clicks on the link in the listing and gets to your site.

I think you're right - if we can't find a reason for using them, best to ignore / remove it altogether.

Here are a few guides on how you can do it:

http://www.studentscrunch.com/2012/03/how-to-add-meta-tags-to-blogger-blogger.html#

http://www.bloggertricks.com/2007/12/adding-meta-tags-to-bloggerblogspot.html

Unfortunately Blogger doesn't provide the tools to do it using any specific interface, so you will have to simply paste the tags into the html.

If they follow then you could also check:

• whether the directory actually has some ranking already and has been around for a while

• how many links they usually put on one page before paging to the next one

• check if the listing pages of the recently added entries (usually last ones) are already in Google index - I normally do it by checking their PageRank - if it's at least white (I use Quirk SearchStatus plugin for Firefox) that means Google is already aware of them - which indicates that they crawl this directory pretty frequently for new content / pages

• try to perform a search on Google for a specific keyword - the category you want to submit your link to and see what's their position for it

Obviously you would do all this if you had a lot of time to go through each directory separately, but it might be worth wile if you're planning to get some links in the different way then the generic links from the visitors.

The first meta tag refers to the Internet Explorer - you can read about it a bit more here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/06/10/introducing-ie-emulateie7.aspx

The other meta tags are referring to the size of the view port - based on the condition whether the device that is used to preview the page is a mobile device or not.

You can also see the meta title and description tags:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Meta description is wrapped with the conditional statement.

My suggestion would be to remove these lines:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

And place your standard meta title and description above:

Hopefully this should solve your problem.