Dynamic URL's with ? and search engines...

Most shopping cart will generate url's with the ? will this ...

[Sebastien]

Most shopping cart will generate url's with the ? will this affect my page ranking? How can you go around this huge problem since they almost all generate url's with the "?". That kind of situation can seriously affect a startup, no?

[john316]

You can rewrite the URL's using mod_rewrite or create static product pages that link to the cart.

Creating static pages for individual products may be more work up front, but should pay dividends down the road.

[Knowles]

Sebastien have a look at this topic its talking about the same thing basically. Dynamic vs. Static [webmasterworld.com]

It will be spidered but they dont like to go as deep, I think.

[Sebastien]

Into that kind of situation what would you do?
I mean I want this thing one day to rank well and also I dont mind more work if it's better.

[Knowles]

Do a search for .htaccess there have been multipule discussions on it.

[john316]

If you lock yourself into a shopping cart template for every product, that is what you get..a template. This doesn't give you much flexibilty for optimization on individual products (you may want to create 5 or 6 pages for some products) in that case the cart will limit you.

If you have the time, create static pages that link to the cart and rewrite the cart URL's.

[Crazy_Fool]

there are many threads about .htaccess and mod_rewrite with loads of sample code. just check the perl, php and python scripting forum at [webmasterworld.com...]