"see" or "c" page

Shopping cart spidering tool?

[tERminal]

I am having a discussion with somebody I work with and the site they want to develop. Their only concern seems to be search engine placement. Fine. But they have been talking to sales people at web site marketing companies and are throwing out a new term at me - See or C Pages.

From what they explained to me, supposedly these "pages" allow search engines to spider your catalog of goods in a database. And when a search is done on a specific product it returns the catalog page for that item. I am not sure how this would work, but they pointed me to sites like Nextag and CNet's comparison sites as examples of it. And they claim it can be done for a shopping catalog as well, but had no examples.

I have no idea what they are talking about, can anyone fill me in or point me to a resource? I haven't found anything on this at this point.

Thanks

[korkus2000]

Hey tERminal welcome to WebmasterWorld,

I don't think I have ever heard of a see or C page. What you need to have is a page without session variables in the url. If you can rewrite your urls to look static and not have dynamic URLs(without a querystring) you will be fine. Your pages need to be available without cookies so spiders can see them also. Maybe someone else has heard of these "C" pages.

[digitalghost]

Is this what they are talking about?

[acp.sourceforge.net...]

[tERminal]

It could be, I am looking into it more. But from the page description ACP sounds like it would be able to do at least some of what he described. This is one of those guys who gets half the information, hears only what he wants to hear and twists it all around because he isn't technical. So you go in sort it all out for him and try to make what he wants.

He has indicated that the MIVA shopping cart uses the technology or some sort of compatible technology for what he wants...I was just going to look into what MIVA uses when I seen noticed there were replies here.

Thanks