Well, AWS works

[Mike]

I submitted to google a couple of days ago, should I keep submitting?

Also chromate, what's your traffic like at the moment?

[chromate]

Not great at all. I'm getting about 50 unique users on each site a day. All three sites each have about 600 to 700 pages indexed by google.

Chris's has just short of 900 pages indexed. Even so, I still have no idea why he's getting 1 to 2 thousand uniques when I'm only getting about 50. Hmm. I guess people just search for branded powertools more. But still, that's quite a lot more.

[incka]

Because more people want power tools from google than kitchen stuff.

[chromate]

LOL... I just noticed Chris has "Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra" indexed by google...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ountpowertools

How did that happen? Haha

[chromate]

Originally posted by incka
Because more people want power tools from google than kitchen stuff.

That's just what I said, if you read my original post

I've also noticed (from looking at Chris's site) a couple of important SEO things I'm missing to increase traffic on the sub-pages.

1) In the title have the product name and THEN put the site name. If the product name's first, it'll rank higher.

2) At the moment I'm using a heading tag for the name of the site as well as the product. I'm going to change the name of the site to graphics and that will just leave the product name heading. By doing so is should increase the item's ranking.

3) I'm also going to create a few links that will return all items by a particular brand name.

[Chris]

Perhaps my estimate was a little high. On Monday I only got 800.

[incka]

Originally posted by chromate
LOL... I just noticed Chris has "Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra" indexed by google...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ountpowertools

How did that happen? Haha

I wonder

[Mike]

How do you know Chris has 900 pages indexed Chromate? Does the toolbar tell you somewhere?

Thanks,
Mike

[Chris]

I've got even more health and personal care listings:

http://www.google.com/search?q=allin...&sa=N&filter=0

[chromate]

Mike, in google search:

"allinurl: domainname.com"

[Chris]

I think one thing that would improve performance would be to list more than 10 products per page... anyone know if that is possible?

[Mike]

Thanks Chromate, no pages indexed for me yet

[Mike]

Originally posted by Chris
I think one thing that would improve performance would be to list more than 10 products per page... anyone know if that is possible?

I don't know if it would work, but you could try something like:

for ($i=0; $i < 5; $i++) {
//content
} 

That's what I do for the homepage on my site (after chromates guidance). I'm not sure if it would work with page numbers though.

[chromate]

Mike, That's to display only 5 items out of the ten that're returned by amazon.

As far as I know, you can only get the standard ten items at the moment.

[chromate]

Originally posted by Mike
I submitted to google a couple of days ago, should I keep submitting?

Yes. I found submitting each of my main category links resulted in a deep crawl within a few days. This worked with each of my 3 sites.

Oh, and it also helps to list links to each of the pages at the bottom of each page. This will help the spider find them all instead of having to follow the one "next" link at the bottom of each page.