bakedjake - 3:38 pm on Oct 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

If you could name some asp carts that are indexed correctly, I would be interested.

Mine. :) And paladin's, it sounds like. But seriously, that's why I encourage everyone to roll their own. I think paladin shares the same opinion, having rolled his own.

Commercially available carts are not adequate from my experience in several areas. Most notably coupons, tiered discounts, and shipping. Granted, there are no commercially available ASP carts I've found that I particularly like. Scratch that, there are no commercially available carts in general that I've found suit my needs for my (and clients) sites.

If you're serious about your e-commerce efforts, I really do encourage you to roll your own.

But just because a piece of software may be coded without SE friendliness in mind doesn't mean that the search engines treat that particular coding language any differently. If what you say was true, why wouldn't everyone just change their .asp pages to .php and remap the mime-type in IIS? If you did that, the search engines would never know....