Most SE friendly online store?

[ichthyous]

Hi there,

I was wondering what the consensus is about which online store technology is the most SE friendly? Which technology is the most digestible by the spiders...php, asp, etc?

[wingslevel]

Search engines don't read any code, just the html pages that they generate. Try to make the html as clean and error free as possible.

It used to be that spiders could hang on queries embedded in url strings with lots of?=$ etc. Thats not the case much anymore, however, a good coder will write clean strings anyway.

[ichthyous]

Hmm...I don't know abou that. I have a dynamic online store that the SEs won't touch...and I hear a lot of other people have the same issue with spiders not indexing their pages

[wingslevel]

I can give you lots of examples of php and asp sites that are fully indexed - although I am sure it is possible to create a site in either language that is not spiderable. My sites are cold fusion and fully indexed. Sticky me your url if you like and I'll have a look....

[webtress]

There can be an number of issues that may be causing the problem any from a bad robots.txt file to using session ids, or other server issues. Take wingslevel
up on the offer.

[Ian_Cowley]

Language has no bearing on how well a site does in the SERPS or how spiderable a site is.

I'd have to say that if your looking for a platform for an ecom store then I'd go for Interchange from the icdevgroup. There's too many SE friendly features to list here. And I think you'll find them listed in other threads. Sticky me if you want some examples.

[cbarling]

I agree with the comments made that language has no impact on SE rankings.

OS Commerce has done a lot of work on this topic in recent years and I think is now OK.

Actinic has a reputation for being very search engine friendly. There's a link on the front page of the .co.uk page to a white paper entitled "Search engines love Actinic". I must declare that I'm self interested here.

Chris