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[changintimes]

i have a website developed with frontpage, the "buy now" buttons tie into the miva shopping cart for purchases,

i am thinking about simply using a miva shopping cart as my entire website,

i have some templates to choose from with miva,

how do the search engines treat such a shopping cart url with miva information in it?

can i achive high rankings with a miva url?

[juliesjewels]

how do the search engines treat such a shopping cart url with miva information in it?

I used Miva for 6 years and the search engines index the pages just fine.

can i achive high rankings with a miva url?

Achieving high rankings won't be determined solely on whether you use Miva or not. Yes, you can achieve high rankings with a Miva URL. My Miva URL's are very well indexed by the SE's. But, you'll need to apply the same optimization principles to the Miva URL's as you would apply to a static page.

[Jill]

Please see the other threads on this topic in the Shopping Cart Forum where I'm moving this one.

[changintimes]

thanks Jill and Julie,

[atlantaec]

Julie offered some great advice. It often has less to do with the cart's abilities, and more to do with how well you make use of the built-in features. Make sure you choose a cart that allows you to specify unique content (both visible text and page title/META content) based on the product being displayed. Also, it helps to make use of a site map or other means to provide direct links to your dynamic product pages to ensure that they are properly indexed.

Doug

[QuillDesign]

Atlanta and Julie are right on ... I would like to add one other side-note to consider. Though dynamic content is great and with any store with more than a handful of products requires dynamic content, absolute pages verses pages with query strings (loong strongs of ?, & and = ) get less power with rankings than absolute page / filenames.

This doesn't mean that your pages won't get picked up by the majors.. .but what actually takes place is that each page has multiple pieces to it that have various rankings that can boost your ranking or detract from your ranking.

Query strings in your pages don't normally do as well as absolute page names. They still get ranked, but you may bump up by having static pages.

I hope this helps!

[projectphp]

Not true, as I pointed out previously.

This doesn't mean that your pages won't get picked up by the majors.. .but what actually takes place is that each page has multiple pieces to it that have various rankings that can boost your ranking or detract from your ranking.

What the heck does that mean?

Query strings in your pages don't normally do as well as absolute page names. They still get ranked, but you may bump up by having static pages.

So a change in URLs us a good thing? You serious? Changing URLs that have been around for a while is only likely to have negative effects short term (as the old URLs drop out and the new URLs fitler in), and no real effect long term (unless you add some keywords to the URL, in which case you may get a small boost, more likely from clickthroughs than from ranking though). A stright move from www.example.com/index.php?page=234 to www.example.com/index.php/page=234/ is not likely to have any positive effect whatsoever.

Or do you have some evidence to the contrary?

[jmhonline]

i have a website developed with frontpage, the "buy now" buttons tie into the miva shopping cart for purchases,

i am thinking about simply using a miva shopping cart as my entire website,

i have some templates to choose from with miva,

how do the search engines treat such a shopping cart url with miva information in it?

can i achive high rankings with a miva url?

There have been some excellent replies to this thread. Miva Merchant and dynamic pages have always had misinformation spread far and wide including within its own community. That makes me money, but it still pisses me off. The only thing I'll add is that I have had a client without .htaccess rewrites have their product ranked number one in Google at the same time it was featured on the today show.