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rkashyap 
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Joined: 05-July-2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 0 |
 Posted: 05-July-2008 at 12:31am |
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I have version 3.12. Can the early impact admin confirm that the 3.11 SEO mod for static pages will work on my version 3.12?
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Greg Dinger
Certified ProductCart Developers 
Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238 |
Posted: 05-July-2008 at 12:49am |
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It should be fine. The way to demonstrate this is to look at the files listed on the support page (the post 3.11 fixes) and you should not find any conflicts between those and the SEO-mod files.
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rkashyap
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Joined: 05-July-2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 0 |
Posted: 06-July-2008 at 7:55pm |
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QUESTION ABOUT CONFLICT IF HOME.ASP WAS MOVED TO ROOT
I have already moved the home.asp file to the root. In the process i edited a lot of files as indicated the the product cart manual. Most of the files that were modified as the same files that are included in the 404 static pages fro version 3.11. In that case what would be the best course of action? Should I just replace my current files with 404 static pages and then follow the instructions to home home.asp to root directory all over again? |
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Greg Dinger
Certified ProductCart Developers
Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238 |
Posted: 06-July-2008 at 9:00pm |
Sure, it works fine.
http://www.gpsandmarineworld.com/ is a very stock 3.11 site with the SEO mod, and the "home page in the root" mod. if you copy (into the root) the SEO versions of homecode.asp, pcShowProductH.asp, pcShowProductL, pcShowProductM and pcShowProductP, then alter them to support their presence at that location, it all works just fine. BTW, once this is done, you can rename home.asp to index.asp or default.asp according to your preferences.
BTW, if you use the AJAX product preview, be sure to follow this article which allows you to maintain the use of that feature in the home page http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/move_home_page_retain_ajax
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rkashyap
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Posted: 07-July-2008 at 9:29pm |
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I am considering modifying the code further to remove productcart/pc/ from all static urls. Would you suggest that? Would it require a lot of modification?
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Greg Dinger
Certified ProductCart Developers
Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238 |
Posted: 07-July-2008 at 10:03pm |
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I spoke with someone on the phone recently who did it. He didn't make it clear as to how difficult it was.
Personally, the obstacle for me would not so much be the associated difficulty - it's the prospects of having to edit every future patch or new release in order to continue to support that structure.
What do you feel is to be gained? Do you feel strongly that the effort is justified?
I have one client who was going to have me install the SEO mod, and he also owns a Volusion store. His experience has been that diligent efforts to submit his store, and proper keywording of his products and categories has allowed his new PC site to advance in search engine rankings far faster than the Volusion store that's been around for years. Unless you have already tried and not been successful, I'd suggest pursuing all typical "best practices" for performing SEO enhancements before taking the route of what you propose.
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rkashyap
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Joined: 05-July-2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 0 |
Posted: 09-July-2008 at 5:17pm |
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I implemented the 3.11 SEO mod for static pages. All the links have been change to static links EXCEPT the links in the "Recently View Products" section. Have I don't something wrong? If I have not gone wrong do you know if these links get indexed by search engine? I believe that even if these links don't get indexed by search engine then also i would be nice to have them as static links.
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ProductCart
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ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135 |
Posted: 09-July-2008 at 6:11pm |
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No, recently viewed items would not be seen by a search engine bot as they are based on a cookie that is saved to the user's desktop. So there is not implication in terms of SEO. There are some technical issues with getting those links to use the SEO routines, so we recommend leaving the code "as is".
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blkg37
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Joined: 29-August-2008 Location: SC Status: Offline Points: 0 |
Posted: 29-August-2008 at 9:34am |
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Thank you for the support and the great addition to this shopping cart ! I am new to working with this cart, but have experience working with shopping cart software now for about 6 years. I recently installed this URL re-write and it works very well. I have 2 questions/issues after the install 1. Before the install the left side navigation would show the sub links after a main category was clicked on. For example Widgets it the main category and under that are red widgets, green widgets, and so on. Before the update when i clicked on Widgets I would be taken to the widgets page and on the left side nav bar Red, Green, ect would be shown. Now these links are not visible. I use a customized side navigation and the only thing i did was change the old urls with the new ones. Any suggestions on how i can get this functionality back? 2. The only other issue i see with the re-write is that in the shopping cart. After adding a product to your cart you see the product in your cart with a clickable link. The clickable link does not use the re-write, and possible allowing a spider to crawl the old urls. Has anyone else noticed this and what are you thoughts on possible issues? Thank you for your response
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ProductCart
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ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135 |
Posted: 30-August-2008 at 7:41pm |
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To answer your questions:
(1) The script is probably looking for a querystring from which to extract the category ID. The querystring is no longer there and therefore the system is unable to determine the category ID. You can instead extract the category ID from the following session variable: session("idCategoryRedirect") The code would be very similar to what you see towards the top of the viewcategories.asp page. Note that you cannot use the code "as is" because the "validNum" function may not be defined. If you need additional assistance, please contact Certified ProductCart Developer. pTempIntSubCategory=session("idCategoryRedirect") if pTempIntSubCategory = "" then pTempIntSubCategory=getUserInput(request("idCategory"),10) end if '// Validate Category ID if not validNum(pTempIntSubCategory) then pTempIntSubCategory="" end if intIdCategory=pTempIntSubCategory (2) This is not an issue because a search engine bot would never add a product to the cart and then spider the links that are a result of that action. To a search engine bot, the shopping cart is always empty. |
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