Hi Gwk, It's a nice clean site, easy to use and seems very fast, well done! How well does it do in regards to SEO though? I noticed there's a lot of ajax going on in the background to help speed things up for the user (love the sliders), but seems to be lacking structure for the search engines. I'm not sure if this is your intention or not, but you could massively increase the number of pages the crawlers see by extending your url rewrites to be a bit more static
i.e. http://www.mysecondhome.co.uk/search/country/France#/s?s=date_desc&p=1&t=object&ta=[]&pmin=0&pmax=%3E&country[]=France&apmin=0&apmax=%3E&samin=0&samax=%3E could become: http://www.mysecondhome.co.uk/search/country/France/region/Auvergne/minprice/200000/maxprice/30000/page/2 This is what we do with our solr implemented search system across all our sites, which in turn has increased general traffic and organic traffic (eg www.visordown.com, www.madeformums.com) Cheers Dave -----Original Message----- From: gwk [mailto:g...@eyefi.nl] Sent: 27 August 2009 13:04 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Thanks Hello, Earlier this your our company decided to (finally :)) upgrade our website to something a little faster/prettier/maintainable-er. After some research we decided on using Solr and after indexing our data for the first time and trying some manual queries we were all amazed at the speed. This summer we started developing the new site and today we've gone live.You can see the site running at http://www.mysecondhome.eu (I don't mean to advertise, so feel free not to buy a house). I'd like to thank the people here for their help with lifting me from Solr-ignorance to Solr-seems-to-know-a-little-bit. We're running a nightly build of Solr 1.4 with SOLR-1240 applied for the dynamic facet count updates when using the sliders in the search screen. Again, thank you and if you have any suggestions or questions regarding our implementation, feel free to ask. Regards, gwk
