Hello.
I have an online store, built/managed/hosted through an eCommerce Providor. I have full access to the HTML and css, but no access to the database.
I recently contracted to have new template coding installed to my site. The navigation menus are now being created dynamically (I THINK this is the meaning of dynamically). I used to have the links in the menus hard coded.
So, in the code of the template, is something like:
Quote: <div id="categories">
<ul class="level1">
#foreach ( $category in $methods.getcategoriesbyparentid(0)) }}
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"{{ $category.categorylink }}">{{$category.name
#foreach ( $subcategory in methods.getcategoriesbyparentid($category.id))
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"{{ $subcategory.categorylink }}">{{ $subcategory.name }}
{{ #foreach ( $subcategory in $methods.getcategoriesbyparentid($subcategory.id)) }}
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"{{ $subcategory.categorylink }}">{{ $subcategory.name }}</a></li> *I took out a lot of the end's, etc etc, just trying to show the algorythm.
The ACTUAL links to each individual page are NOT in the HTML of the template.
But, another designer very very familiar with the eCommerce provider once told me something about "the templates print the actual HTML for each page", so the pages do exist with the actual urls, even if they were not hard coded in your template.
When I do view source, I do see the actual urls... such as
Quote: <div id="categories">
<ul class="level1">
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/4-to-6x-tops-shirts-with-horses">4 to 6x Tops and Shirts with Horses</li>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/7-16-shirts-tops-with-horses">7-16 Shirts and Tops with Horses</li>
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/pajamas-with-horses">Pajamas with Horses
<ul>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/pajama-sets-with-horses">Pajama Sets with Horses </li>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/nightgowns-with-horse">Nightgowns with horses </li>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/horse-pajama-bottoms">Horse Pajama Bottoms</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/juniors-womens-horse-clothing">Juniors and Womens Sizes</li>
etc -----------
My question is... do I lose anything by using the dynamic code as show in the 1st quote here, vs when I had (essentially) the 2nd version actually typed into my template HTML
ALSO... do I lose anything by using the / to represent my site url, rather than having the actual url typed out (which is how I had it before).
Here is the page in question, just in case that matters or clarifies when Im trying to ask. http://www.girlshorseclothes.com/
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The actual urls to my category pages and product pages do not have a ? in them, for example: http://www.girlshorseclothes.com/pro...horse-clothing
BOTTOM line question... is my site being crawled the same way with the "for each category" type coding as it was when I had the list of category urls all typed out?
Thank you very much.
Cindy Quote: Originally Posted by Cindy522 My question is... do I lose anything by using the dynamic code as show in the 1st quote here, vs when I had (essentially) the 2nd version actually typed into my template HTML It is all about the rendered HTML page not the source code behind it. So the simple answer is no, your pages seem fine.
Quote: Originally Posted by Cindy522 ALSO... do I lose anything by using the / to represent my site url, rather than having the actual url typed out (which is how I had it before). Once again the simple answer is no, your pages seem fine, you are using your targeted keywords as well which is good.
Quote: Originally Posted by Cindy522 BOTTOM line question... is my site being crawled the same way with the "for each category" type coding as it was when I had the list of category urls all typed out? It seems Google has no problems crawling your site when I look at the page already in its index, its cached as well so all seems fine. It's better to have the full URL path in your links
Quote: <a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.girlshorseclothes.com/products/4-to-6x-tops-shirts-with-horses"> is better than
Quote: <a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/4-to-6x-tops-shirts-with-horses"> also validate your code to W3C standart, don't use inline styles
I have an online store, built/managed/hosted through an eCommerce Providor. I have full access to the HTML and css, but no access to the database.
I recently contracted to have new template coding installed to my site. The navigation menus are now being created dynamically (I THINK this is the meaning of dynamically). I used to have the links in the menus hard coded.
So, in the code of the template, is something like:
Quote: <div id="categories">
<ul class="level1">
#foreach ( $category in $methods.getcategoriesbyparentid(0)) }}
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"{{ $category.categorylink }}">{{$category.name
#foreach ( $subcategory in methods.getcategoriesbyparentid($category.id))
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"{{ $subcategory.categorylink }}">{{ $subcategory.name }}
{{ #foreach ( $subcategory in $methods.getcategoriesbyparentid($subcategory.id)) }}
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"{{ $subcategory.categorylink }}">{{ $subcategory.name }}</a></li> *I took out a lot of the end's, etc etc, just trying to show the algorythm.
The ACTUAL links to each individual page are NOT in the HTML of the template.
But, another designer very very familiar with the eCommerce provider once told me something about "the templates print the actual HTML for each page", so the pages do exist with the actual urls, even if they were not hard coded in your template.
When I do view source, I do see the actual urls... such as
Quote: <div id="categories">
<ul class="level1">
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/4-to-6x-tops-shirts-with-horses">4 to 6x Tops and Shirts with Horses</li>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/7-16-shirts-tops-with-horses">7-16 Shirts and Tops with Horses</li>
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/pajamas-with-horses">Pajamas with Horses
<ul>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/pajama-sets-with-horses">Pajama Sets with Horses </li>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/nightgowns-with-horse">Nightgowns with horses </li>
<li><a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/horse-pajama-bottoms">Horse Pajama Bottoms</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="fly" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/juniors-womens-horse-clothing">Juniors and Womens Sizes</li>
etc -----------
My question is... do I lose anything by using the dynamic code as show in the 1st quote here, vs when I had (essentially) the 2nd version actually typed into my template HTML
ALSO... do I lose anything by using the / to represent my site url, rather than having the actual url typed out (which is how I had it before).
Here is the page in question, just in case that matters or clarifies when Im trying to ask. http://www.girlshorseclothes.com/
-----------
The actual urls to my category pages and product pages do not have a ? in them, for example: http://www.girlshorseclothes.com/pro...horse-clothing
BOTTOM line question... is my site being crawled the same way with the "for each category" type coding as it was when I had the list of category urls all typed out?
Thank you very much.
Cindy Quote: Originally Posted by Cindy522 My question is... do I lose anything by using the dynamic code as show in the 1st quote here, vs when I had (essentially) the 2nd version actually typed into my template HTML It is all about the rendered HTML page not the source code behind it. So the simple answer is no, your pages seem fine.
Quote: Originally Posted by Cindy522 ALSO... do I lose anything by using the / to represent my site url, rather than having the actual url typed out (which is how I had it before). Once again the simple answer is no, your pages seem fine, you are using your targeted keywords as well which is good.
Quote: Originally Posted by Cindy522 BOTTOM line question... is my site being crawled the same way with the "for each category" type coding as it was when I had the list of category urls all typed out? It seems Google has no problems crawling your site when I look at the page already in its index, its cached as well so all seems fine. It's better to have the full URL path in your links
Quote: <a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.girlshorseclothes.com/products/4-to-6x-tops-shirts-with-horses"> is better than
Quote: <a href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"/products/4-to-6x-tops-shirts-with-horses"> also validate your code to W3C standart, don't use inline styles