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Originally posted by avalight avalight wrote:

From what I can tell, the ISAPI rewrite is the way to go on this.
 
On what basis do you draw this conclusion?  Have you compared sites using ISAPI versus the SEO mod and see actual differences in terms of placement?
 
I can tell you, after working on ISAPI Rewrite on a few sites (I have this installed on my servers) that it is no small effort to program the rules. 
 
OTOH, installing the SEO mod takes 20-30 minutes for a stock store, possibly a couple hours or longer for an altered store, plus whatever time you spend formatting the 404 page.  The SEO mod could not be simpler or more predictable with respect to working immediately and in terms of the URL that it produces. 
 
So unless you can demonstrate an actual performance difference with regard to actual SEO placement, and know enough about SEO and ISAPI rules that you are certain you will be able to outperform the results of the SEO mod, based on "ease of implementation factor" (or I should say, the lack thereof) I would be hard-pressed to agree that ISAPI is the way to go.  It is very clearly the more difficult approach in terms of implementation.


Edited by Greg Dinger - 30-December-2008 at 3:02am
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Has anyone put together a simple starting instructions for the isapi rewrite?  A brief overview?
From what I can tell, the ISAPI rewrite is the way to go on this.
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Hi Slinc,

Sounds like a beautiful solution.

But should we re-invent the wheel? :-)

Or would you be interested in selling/licensing the functions you developed along with some instructions?

Thank you.

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We have done an extensive modification to Product Cart to give us nice clean URL's using Helicon Tech ISAPI Rewrite.  We completely rewrite our Category, Product and Content pages.  I know hardly nothing about ISAPI Rewrite but Helicon's support is very good and they will basically write the needed code for you.  It is then up to you to modify Product Cart to read the new URL's.   We simply created a function that converted the new URL's to something Product Cart could read.  Then created another function to rewrite the URL's links shown by Product Cart. 

This makes it very search engine friendly.  Also makes it easy to later move to another technology like .net since our URL's are technology independent.

This would be a very good, and fairly easy, add-on for Product Cart to make as part of their base system.  Much more flexible than outputing static HTML pages.  The performance is great.

Example URL's we use:::

www.domain.com/category/categoryname
www.domain.com/product/productname
www.domain.com/home/contentpage

When we add a Product, Category or Content page we give it a unique name (custom field we created) so that it can be used in the URL.  Great flexibility.

Hope this helps.
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We are using isapi rewrite for all our category urls... the products remained asp.... Weve been using it for a few years now with no problems...

Here is what one of the isapi rules looks like

RewriteRule /business_card_holders\.html /productcart/pc/viewcategories.asp\?idcategory=7

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I am also interested in knowing if anyone has gone down the path of implementing ISAPI rewrite.

Regardless of the mod that EI has developed, I'm curious about what strategies are working or otherwise.
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No problem, glad to help when i can Jackalope.

 
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Stuck,

Thanks for that link. I'm out of the office at the moment but will give it a try when I return.

Thanks again for you help. I appreciate it.
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I don't remember exactly, however, I would say that I was able to update two of our sites with ProductCarts SEO Mod & was back up & running in less than two hours total (uploading files, fixing whatever screwups I made, etc.)

Like I say, it was quite painless overall. Here is the information & files needed:

Uploaded files compatible with ProductCart v3.1

ProductCart v3.1: 2007-09-09_154357_pcSEO_v3.1_090907.zip (09.09.07)
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Stuck,

So you are very happy about implimenting ISAPI Rewrite into your site? That is good to hear. How long did it take you to impliment it into PC?

Thanks again.
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