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AC7 and SEO

Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:03 pm
by Brewhaus
We have been working on optimizing our site, and the keyword count in the main body section has be a bit puzzled. When running a comparison with other pages, ours shows a count considerably lower despite a 'visual' count that is at least as high. It seems that other sites are getting keywords counted in the exact same sections that we are not getting the keywords counted. I assume that this is due to the way that AC writes the page (one competitor, at least, I know the software that they use, and it is different). Has anyone else hit something similar? Is there a relatively easy way to get around this, and get these other words in our main panel (the FeaturedProducts grid) counted?

Re: AC7 and SEO

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:39 pm
by Mike718NY
I remembering reading this and saved the link:

http://www.drostdesigns.com/web-page-ac ... -with-css/

Re: AC7 and SEO

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:11 am
by jmestep
There is a method I have seen using tables, but I can't remember the references except in WebCEO and I don't know if it is in their public docs.
It is that you set up your display pages like this:
Normal
<table>
<tr><td>LeftNav</td><td>Center content</td></tr>
</table>

Revised
<table>
<tr><td>[nothing]><td rowspan="2">Center content</td></tr>
<tr><td >LeftNav</td><td>[Nothing]</td><tr>
</table>
That puts a blank cell then the main content in the first row.
Then the next row has the left nav content.

I don't think this would be hard to implement in Able where the css solution might not be possible.