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Old June 4th, 2008, 11:12 PM
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Cool Is thefind.com good or bad for SEO?

I'm not sure if I submitted my site ages ago, or if they just found it, but look at this
go to thefind and search for ceogolfshop

1. The data, especially prices, is wrong. For example, we've never had anything for $500.
2. I'm not so sure I like them having my content that might lure prospective shoppers to their site. I was number one on every search engine and recently discovered that all went away and now there is a whole crowd of sites that are not selling my products, but they are advertising them (I'm not paying anyone for listings)
3. The URL's are not clean. ie I'm not getting the benefit of the hyperlink names because they are cloaked in some gobbledy gook code.

this is what a link looks like /query.php?query=ceogolfshop&filter%5Bcategoryorder%5D=CgEBCg0MCw4SFgMZAQA%253D &filter%5Bqpcookie%5D=%24%24K87ILy9ITE8tqSxItTXUyc9 MAZIA&filter[pagenum]

As for traffic, we've never had a single referral from that site. When I pull an inbound links report, no one is showing this site is one of them. Of course, this is probably because of their linking method.

What do you think?
Should I pull all my data or leave it there and ask for an update?

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I'm not sure that it really has anything to do with SEO. I'd say it is more of a matter of brand awareness. The site itself does not provide any relevant links that would tell Google, "hey, this must be an important site".

However, it is possible that someone will come across your product through a google listing, although it has seemed very hard to do, unless I tell google to specifically scan thefind.com for my website.

The benefit that I found is that it makes up for a small percentage of sales, and that is better than none. You should always have multiple sources of traffic.

Also, thefind.com is in same kind or relationship with PayPal. With that said, be sure that you provide PayPal as a checkout option, and make sure that you are listed in PayPal shops - it's free to do.

When users logout of their PayPal accounts, a redirect screen often moves them to the PayPal shops where results are powered by thefind.com

If you think it is doing more harm than good, you can always block their bot from crawling your site. Just update your htaccess file so that it does not allow fatbot (that's their bot's name).
Good luck!

Last edited by osakagreg : June 23rd, 2009 at 09:18 PM. Reason: wanted to add a bit of info.

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