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#2 · 05-18-05, 10:10 AM

Re: Miva and CVV code

Hola. I am having a problem with my static search form.

Here is the code I pasted in from the viking coders tutorial with a couple
of slight mods:

<form Style="display:inline" FORM METHOD = "post" ACTION
="<A HREF ="http://www.sermonvideos.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?>">http://www.sermonvideos.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?></A>
<INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "Store_Code" VALUE = "storecode">
<INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "Screen" VALUE = "SRCHM">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Search_desc" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Search_name" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="Search_keys" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "BrokSearch_Have_List_Fields" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="Search_search" SIZE="22" VALUE="" style="position:
relative; top: 2; border-style: solid; border-width: 1">
<input type="image" name="submit" align="middle" src="newestgobutton8.gif"
width="29" height="19">
</form>

When I try to search for something, it gives me a "404 not found error"
and this is what is shown in the URL Address bar:
<A HREF ="http://www.sermonvideos.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?><INPUT%20TYPE%20=">http://www.sermonvideos.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?><INPUT%20TYPE%20=</A>

Here is a link to the store for a try:

<A HREF ="http://www.sermonvideos.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?">http://www.sermonvideos.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?</A>

Thanks for any help!

Craig L.

#3 · 05-18-05, 10:10 AM

Re: Miva and CVV code

Speaking on your Paid Adwords -
Your ads performance are naturally related to how much you bid for
position, BUT also if your ad is not as popular on click thru as one
that may not be bidding as much as yourself, they will show up higher
on the page. I would take a real hard look at what you are targeting
and what key words or phrases you are using to trigger the ad. Afaik
know - not a fact - only heard through the grapevine, if you are too
haphazard about keywords for your ad and you do get high click thru's
but the shopper doesn't find what they want and then click back right
away; somehow google figures this out and sees the result as not
relevant in that it was quickly determined to be a waste of time...hope
that makes some sense.
One real basic example that some overlook with the adwords - say you
were Acme Widgets and have an ad for Super Gold Plated Widgets and on
click the ad runs them to your storefront, big mistake - you should
instead land them on the Gold Plated Widgets page.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
__
What type of links did your store map have ?
Should have had SFL directory style along with your whole store.

The main moral with dynamic SFL or static html links and pages is to
use one or the other and stick with it.
If you have a site that is getting hammered by the spiders and traffic
to where it is a problem; using the static pages is the key for server
performance and in that case you block the spider from /Merchant2/
directory via the robots.txt file to prevent the illusion to the spider
of duplicate content and plowing thru and calling dynamic pages.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
____

Being that the root of this new dilemma is related to duplicate content
and server performance or load - my gut tells me that the static html
solution has merit, but then that flys in the face of the whole reason
sites are built with database driven backends and create pages on call
in the first place. Now because a spider is going to load a server or
because someone can get so much traffic that the dynamic generated site
and server can't handle it we have to revert back to static page
management....??? This being such great solution; then why hasn't all
the great engineers at Miva built the new templated mouse trap to
conveniently and accurately produce and manage a site run in html ???
That would seem to me logical if the move to static pages for high load
site is totally sound. What then are the big players like umm Compusa,
HomeDepot, BestBuy, Lowes, Costco, Ciruitcity and so on running ??? I'm
sure it ain't static sites - oh yes don't even start with me about
zillion dollar budgets - just want to understand the mechanics....
I did hear that ebay runs separate and mirrored servers for each
individual category browsed so as soon as you hit a category you go to
that server and even if it choked you'd never know because it's twin
picks up the ball... Wowser (my neighbor works for a big time company
involved with that stuff and he said Miva ????..sorry come again...)

Thanks,
-Barrett
http://handmade-paper.us
Hosted by Hostasaurus.com (MM v4.20 OUI)
ShipWorks by Interapptive.com

On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 06:51 PM, Linda Katz wrote:

> Sorry- I seem to be perpetually behind because I get the digest.
>
> I asked before but got no answer- which folder should the robot.txt
> file go
> into?
>
> We used to have the indents Chuck was talking about. My store is
> small so
> it's really obvious- we have disppeared from Google. Only the dynamic
> links
> are left. Anything that used to link to the store map with the indent-
> is
> gone. (And there was no active mirror or other domain redirecting
> (that I
> know of) - so it MUST have to do with SFL and storemap.)
>
> What I am hearing, I think, is disallowing the dynamic links is the
> only
> real solution- because the map got us much higher rankings -- I guess
> the MV
> links are too far removed from index.
>
> But I don't want everyone entering the store thru the store map,
> unless one
> far more configurable than CBS exists, and I don't want to get rid of
> static
> doorways (I can't design with tokens).
>
> If anyone wants to quote me offline to fix this in a way that will
> still
> allow both, please do. Can't afford much but am over my head this time.
>
> Am seriously considering quitting Miva altogether. Other merchant
> solutions
> don't seem to have all these problems. All the completely irrelevant
> sites
> that have taken our place in the rankings are certainly not paying
> oodles of
> cash to SEO specialists every time Google changes it's algorythms.
>
> Has anyone else noticed that their PAID Google rankings have changed? I
> can't imagine how it would be related or why they would do that- but
> we used
> to be 1 or 2 in those and now those are disappearing or ranking lower
> too-
> with NO change on my part. Unbelievable. Could this be a plan to push
> us
> into Froogle?
>
> Linda Katz
> www.israeliproducts.com
>
>
>

#4 · 05-19-05, 04:47 AM

Re: Miva and CVV code

Ditto, as painful as it seems, RUN don't walk to a new host, (you will
eventually anyway) and save yourself an enormous amount of aggravation.

Ray Yates
<A HREF ="http://www.flyinghands.com ">http://www.flyinghands.com </A>

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Yates [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:47 AM
To: 'Aquapro'
Subject: RE: [mru] Re: Miva and CVV code

Ditto, as painful as it seems, RUN don't walk to a new host, (you will
eventually anyway) and save yourself an enormous amount of aggravation.

Ray Yates
<A HREF ="http://www.flyinghands.com">http://www.flyinghands.com</A>

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aquapro
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:11 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [mru] Re: Miva and CVV code

Using Interland for hosting is a huge mistake. Though I do have personal
experience with their horrible service, that's not just MHO. It's been a
topic many times before on this list.

Interland will not help you solve Miva problems, even though almost every
problem you'll experience with Miva Merchant will be due to the way they set
up their servers. They will continually have you ask Miva to solve your
problems. Miva will tell you it's a problem with your host and you'll be
caught in a circle of frustration where you don't know who to blame.

If you leave Interland (and you should - like TODAY!), make sure that if
they registered your domain, they have not assigned themselves as the owner
or technical contact for the domain. They did that with our domains and then
illegally sold a domain extension which we had registered through them after
we left (they were supposed to transfer all of the domains to our new host
and sold that one claiming we never owned it even though it had pointed to
our main domain), offering NO legitimate explanation other than to refund
our money.

That is why seven years later, we still do not own the aquariumpros.net
variation of our domain. Now that it's been bought by one of those huge
domain farms, we never will. That's only one horror story of hundreds that
you'll find if you do a search on the list archives.

Trust me - blame Interland first, ask questions later!

Dave Hauser, President
Aquarium Professionals Group

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Gianluca Romito -
Go Online WEB Limited
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mru] Re: Miva and CVV code

Hi, I'm using miva on a domain hosted on Interland. The problem is that I
need to implement the CVV code for credit card processing. Now I don't see
that option and the Interland support team asked me to vrite to a miva
techincian to know if it is possible to implement it.

So the question is: can I buy a module that implements CVV and install it on
the interland miva server?

Thanks, to all.

--
Gianluca Romito
Go Online WEB Limited
Via Roma, 52
37060 Castel d'Azzano (VR)
ITALY

Web go-online.it
email [email protected]

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