Dynamic pages and indexing in general

[scot184]

Hello,

I had a few questions if anyone would be so kind to lend some advice. I run a site called: www.petsell.com
I have fairly good rankings for certain keywords for my index page. But I have never, ever had decent rankings for any other pages on my site, ever. I don't understand why I do so well for the keyword "pet classifieds" on my index page, but don't show up until around the 80s for my pet names page. I understand that my content level is low, but my site was designed to be simple and clean. What can I do to get these other pages higher in the serps?
Second question regards dynamic pages. Since the site consists of pet classifieds, they are constantly changing, being added, removed, etc. My site uses a cold fusion script that shows all the newest results first when you click on a pet. These detail pages are all called details.cfm and contain different variables depending on what you clicked. They never maintain any pagerank, although they display it from time to time in the toolbar. What can I do to optimize these pages? Should I break them up and give them more descriptive names? What other methods are effective?
I realize that I could increase my business ten-fold if I had 10 more pages that ranked well. I've just had no luck doing so. Thanks for reading.

Todd

Pets for Sale (http://www.petsell.com) | Pet Names (http://www.petsell.com/petnames.cfm) | Pet Search (http://www.petsell.com/advsearch.cfm) | Pet Classifieds (http://www.petsell.com/display.cfm?categories_ID=0&x=54&y=5)

[fathom]

Hello,

I had a few questions if anyone would be so kind to lend some advice. I run a site called: www.petsell.com
I have fairly good rankings for certain keywords for my index page. But I have never, ever had decent rankings for any other pages on my site, ever. I don't understand why I do so well for the keyword "pet classifieds" on my index page, but don't show up until around the 80s for my pet names page. I understand that my content level is low, but my site was designed to be simple and clean. What can I do to get these other pages higher in the serps?

Ensure session IDs are off - Googlebot can run a session while it can index the page it often ignores page content.

display.cfm?categories_ID=0&x=54&y=5

If you can also reduce params, avoid non-alpha-numeric charcters and long numerical strings.



Second question regards dynamic pages. Since the site consists of pet classifieds, they are constantly changing, being added, removed, etc. My site uses a cold fusion script that shows all the newest results first when you click on a pet. These detail pages are all called details.cfm and contain different variables depending on what you clicked. They never maintain any pagerank, although they display it from time to time in the toolbar. What can I do to optimize these pages? Should I break them up and give them more descriptive names? What other methods are effective?
I realize that I could increase my business ten-fold if I had 10 more pages that ranked well. I've just had no luck doing so. Thanks for reading.

Well fresh ever changing pages are good the first point is your problem area. Google "loves" all formats but you need to appreciate bots are blind to many things and as such you have an obstacle course in front of it... get rid of that and you will be fine.

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[scot184]

Thanks for the reply. But on pages like the www.petsell.com/petnames.cfm , there are no parameters or non-alpha-numeric charcters and long numerical strings. I still only show up around 80th...which might as well be 80,000. Because the pet names pages show just "random" names, Google and other bots might have a tough time distinguishing the content of the page. Are there any immediate changes I can apply to this page to possibly get a better ranking. I have already began using anchor text for this page within my site www.petsell.com and also in forums and other inbound link sites. I have pet names in all the meta tags and title tags, and on the page itself in text. What am I missing???

Thanks again.

Todd

[scot184]

Does anybody out there have any input? Do the index pages generally do better in the search engines, or can pages deeper in the directory do just as well? I noticed that adding my index page to the Lycos InSite express directory really improved my rankings, but only for the index page. All my other pages don't show up in most other directories or results. Help please.

Todd

[pedstersplanet]

I understand that my content level is low, but my site was designed to be simple and clean. What can I do to get these other pages higher in the serps?
Ensure session IDs are off - Googlebot can run a session while it can index the page it often ignores page content.
display.cfm?categories_ID=0&x=54&y=5
If you can also reduce params, avoid non-alpha-numeric charcters and long numerical strings.
Would these type of pages, in time, generate pageranks, or is it because theyre dynamic (even tho the url is static - if you see what I mean. i.e. same every time)... Or is it as the content changes, it confuses Google?
I cant have the Apache's "mod_rewrite" enabled on my server (as its shared), otherwise I'd have a go with that. :/