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[MIDA]

I know that there is no "perfect" SEO shopping cart on the market, at least not one we can afford

So, since my web dev partner is already familar with X-Cart, I think we are going to buy the Lite version for a 30 product catalog.

I sent them a message asking about the dynamic URLs and they say that the product will generate a static HTML catalog, which is great, BUT I'd like to employ some kind of technique to make those URLs more spiderable.

I know some of you may have used X-Cart and I'm hoping to point our programmer in some kind of direction. Anyone have a "fix" or technique that I can review?

Thanks!
MIDA

[markymark]

Not sure I understand your question. X-Cart does, as they say, create static pages. You can't get 'more' spider-friendly than a static page.

[MIDA]

Mark, maybe you answered my question with yours. I thought they meant a static HTML site map that linked into the cart pages. I should go back to them and ask for clarification.

I guess the static catalog would serve as main catalog as far as engines were concerned? I'm trying to imagine how it will work. Maybe I should talk to X-Cart more.

I'll post here again when I get more information from them. Also, if anyone has had experience with this cart, I'd love to hear the pros and cons.

Thanks!
Shelley

[powerofeyes]

Hello Mida,
One on my client uses X-cart gold version, Google found it very difficult to crawl, Infact they never crawled the pages with query string, Later we found out from X-cart there is a option where we can create static version pages, we created all those pages in a folder seperately and now google has crawled all those pages, So yes the Html version of X-cart software works fine with search engines,

But the PHP pages with query strings really s**ks, It has to undergo couple of changes at the server level and then again on the browser level, Good that they gave a html option, And yes it works fine,

[MIDA]

Thanks for all of your great advice, I am going to try Lite Commerce and use the HTML static cart add-on and see how it goes.

As always great advice!