monstersink
17-12-2003, 10:47/10:47AM
Currently we are using a cart that has a long URL for the cart. Google is picking up the pages but I notice pages of other sites that are using carts with search engine friendly page have a higher page ranking. Example a competitor site has a page rank of 5 for his home page, 3 or 4 for catagory pages and 2 or 3 for product detail pages. When I research his links that are listed by Google all are his pages from his site. Does a search engine friendly shopping cart have this much weight on helping with page ranking?
I have consider using mod rewrite to make our pages more freindly. This appears to be what the competitor has done after reading alot on mod rewrite.
My 2 questions are as follows:
Before you answer this let me explain how our cart is set up. It is a cgi based cart and an example URL is is http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/003store.cgi?user_action=custom_detail&catalogno=2482%2022. I would like if possible to have the url be domain.com/catagory/2482%2022
1.Is it worth moving to complete new cart (considering X-Cart) or appling the mod rewrite to our site better?
2. Is there a major differnece in using a php cart or cgi cart? Our site will have about 2000 product in it come summer 04?
Thanks,
Mike
I have consider using mod rewrite to make our pages more freindly. This appears to be what the competitor has done after reading alot on mod rewrite.
My 2 questions are as follows:
Before you answer this let me explain how our cart is set up. It is a cgi based cart and an example URL is is http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/003store.cgi?user_action=custom_detail&catalogno=2482%2022. I would like if possible to have the url be domain.com/catagory/2482%2022
1.Is it worth moving to complete new cart (considering X-Cart) or appling the mod rewrite to our site better?
2. Is there a major differnece in using a php cart or cgi cart? Our site will have about 2000 product in it come summer 04?
Thanks,
Mike