Brand Names & SEO URL

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   I just noticed something while testing our site.  Our current setting for displaying products is

5 rows 3 columns (15 products at a time) 
high price listed first
When browsing products by brand that has more than 1 page, the first page shows up ok, but when i click on the 2nd page it switches to low price.
This doesn't happen when browsing products by the categories we set up.  Everything works fine there.

Edited by GreggS - 02-April-2012 at 1:06pm

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GreggS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 06-February-2012 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote GreggS Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02-April-2012 at 1:04pm
	I just noticed something while testing our site. Our current setting for displaying products is 5 rows 3 columns (15 products at a time) high price listed first When browsing products by brand that has more than 1 page, the first page shows up ok, but when i click on the 2nd page it switches to low price. This doesn't happen when browsing products by the categories we set up. Everything works fine there. Edited by GreggS - 02-April-2012 at 1:06pm

GreggS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 06-February-2012 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote GreggS Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09-February-2012 at 12:05pm
	Thanks for the responses. I didn't realize that the brands pages were search results and not actual pages. I'm probably going to make a category link with all the brands. Edited by GreggS - 28-February-2012 at 3:36pm

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07-February-2012 at 6:50pm
	Hi GreggS, The thing is, brands don't actually have pages. Products, Categories and Content Pages have pages -- and therefore content that can be use for effective SEO. They also have custom meta tags. Browse by Brand (viewbrands.asp) has a page, but brands themselves don't have a page; the links are just a link to search results. To be effective for SEO, you'd need more content than just a search results page with a "pretty" or "keyword-rich" URL. That being said, yes, 404.asp could be tweaked easily enough to server.transfer to showsearchresults.asp and capture the brand ID from the URL.

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06-February-2012 at 3:17pm
	The current code does not support SEO-friendly URLs for brand search results, although you are correct, it would be great if it could. 404.asp and pcSeoLinks.asp are the scripts that represent the core of the SEO-friendly URLs. If you have a comfort level with code, those are the files to attack if you want to try to implement logic to make this happen.

GreggS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 06-February-2012 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote GreggS Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06-February-2012 at 3:10pm
	1st post...1st time using ProductCart. Spent a lot of time figuring out how to get the Keyword SEO URL's to work and for the most part its working ok. Content pages show up ok. /About-Us-d2.htm Category pages show up ok. /Clearance-Overstock-c81.htm However the Brands pages don't show up ok. If I'm in the viewbrands.asp page and click on a brand i get this... /showsearchresults.asp?IDBrand=72&iPageSize=12&pageStyle= If I'm on a product page and I click on the brand name link I get this... /showsearchresults.asp?IDBrand=72 I remember having to go into certain files and changing a little code for this to work. Is there something I'm missing? Or is this how brands will show up. Edited by GreggS - 06-February-2012 at 5:13pm