Carts & SEO

What is the best shopping cart for SE recognition

[1stTC]

We currently use Actinic as our cart, and this gets good placements for many of our product pages in search results. The problem is it doesn't hold enough products for us (we have over 20,000)

Does anyone know of a good solution, prferably UK orientated, that holds 20,000+ products and has the ability to get individual product pages ranked well on search engines?

Many thanks.

[webtress]

Look at [ecommercetemplates.com...] These shopping carts can be purchased with MS access database or MySQL, and have been tested to use around 100,000 products for the ASP and up to a million for the PHP version. I think you would have room to grow. Plus there are many more features not listed on the site like customer login and customer order status just to name a few.

[edited by: tedster at 12:56 am (utc) on April 7, 2004]

[Corey Bryant]

We have used [spidersales.com...] before - been extremely happy with their services. You might try to find a hosting company that supports ISAPI re-write to help you re-write the URLS.

Corey

[edited by: tedster at 12:54 am (utc) on April 7, 2004]

[dragon]

one of my clients wanted to have a store all in html - for better se indexing
i've built the store with [x-cart.com...] - it has a feature to make all store in html
The funny thing is the dynamic version is indexed far not bad as well ;)
they say the cart can work with unlimited number of products - i don't know exactly how much that is, but i've met on their forum someone with +100000 products.

not the only solution of cource, but it worths an investigation

[edited by: TallTroll at 10:52 am (utc) on April 7, 2004]

[1stTC]

Thanks everyone, I now have some info to work with, I have also found 'Your Virtual Store' a easy to use version of VPASP, tghis has the ability to generate static HTML pages. Has anyone any experience of this?

[pageoneresults]

I would stay away from any software or program that is going to generate static pages. What this usually means is that in addition to your dynamic pages, it will generate a sub-directory with static pages that they consider spider food. There is no need to do this if you can implement an ISAPI filter or use mod_rewrite to rewrite the URIs.

If you do find yourself in a position where you are using software that does generate static pages in addition to dynamic pages, I would Disallow: the dynamic pages from being indexed.

[brucec]

Bcentral, although their shopping cart is not designed by database developers, they give you submit it and it has gotten us up to the top of the SE's very well.

[webtress]

To add to what pageoneresults stated. By generating both static and dynamic pages the content becomes duplicated. If you are going to generate static pages make sure the static pages are unique in content vs their dynamic partner. It is best to stick to one or the other. Ecommerce templates has the ability to do both, however I edit the text on the static and link over to the dynamic. Good Luck