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It can be in Perl, PHP, ASP ...either one. It is required to work with Authorize.net and if it does not, no worries coz I can do that part myself. Please recommend!
The product pages SHOULD be spidered unless going to the product requires a surfer to execute some sort of form element submission, like choosing a size out of drop down menu. An SE will not choose from a drop down menu, hence not indexing the resulting page.
If just good ol' hyperlinks (text or image) are used, I believe the SE will follow and index.
Corrections welcomed...
There are carts available which will actually churn out complete static HTML copies of your product catalogue solely for search engine purposes. Every once in a while, you can re-run the process to update the static pages
(these pages aren't used by the customer, they are only for SE purposes).
Cheers.
You can always (in most instances) take any dynamically generated content and make it search engine friendly. It will depend on whether you are on Windows or Apache. For Windows IIS there is ISAPI_Rewrite. For Apache there is mod_rewrite.
Once you've figured out what your requirements are, then you can effectively plan your site architecture and make it do exactly what you want it to do.
Let me know one thing please. I have seen a lot of people using various softwares to create HTML versions of their Dynamic websites out of CFML, ASP and PHP and buying additional domains, changing some text especially Title and uploading them.
Seems to be working for them. Does thjat really work very well? Till date, I never everr required to follow any kind of spamming techniques. You can see that my own website listed in my profile got a PR of 5 with just a few internal links and 2 ODP listings... (Thanks to the Editors at ODP).
Just wanted to know what people like you think about that and is that not spamming as per Google and other search engines?
The cart I wrote is here: [snip]. I think the only products in the db are books because I'm currently not using it. You'll note no? in the URLs.
What is amazing is that sites like CDW don't have search engine friendly URLs. They can afford to hire all of us to fix that problem, but they don't even seem know it is a problem. I quit trying to start conversations with people who should care about SEO. They just look at you like you are from Mars, or figure you are an idiot left over from the dot-bomb era. Not sure which.
Bill
[edited by: pageoneresults at 4:10 am (utc) on Sep. 14, 2003]
[edit reason] No URIs Please - Refer to TOS [/edit]
Early versions of Interchange (like many ecommerce platforms) were not SE friendly. Version 4.9.8 sites that we manage are getting all there pages spidered including dynamically generated product pages. We have sites that have 5000 pages indexed, all of which are dynamic, template driven pages.
There's also some cool stuff you can do with Interchange to get rid of the SE un-friendly stuff in the URL (the stuff after the?).
