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SEO URLs and product description changes

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Forum Name: Search Engine Optimization
Forum Description: Talk about ways to optimize your ProductCart store for search engines
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Topic: SEO URLs and product description changes

Posted By: MikeCC
Subject: SEO URLs and product description changes
Date Posted: 12-December-2009 at 7:10pm

I've been wondering what would happen if we needed to change the product description when using SEO-friendly URLs?

The URL effectively would change and leave it going nowhere from a search engine. I've not seen any mention of this (unless it's so obvious no-one needed to).

I realise product descriptions wouldn't generally be changed much, but if there was a necessity, like a bad typo, would you just set up a 301 redirect from the old to the revised URL?

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Posted By: gessepi
Date Posted: 14-December-2009 at 10:48pm

Im using pc 4.0 version and have the seo url generator activated and when i submitted a sitemap to ggogle this is the error google gave me.

General HTTP error: 404 not found

We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

HTTP Error: 404

Problem detected on: Dec 14, 2009

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Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 15-December-2009 at 6:09pm

Could there be a folder permission issue that prevented the sitemap from being successfully created?

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Posted By: whizzinpc
Date Posted: 16-December-2009 at 10:32am

If it's a well ranked page then Yes you should do a redirect.
If you don't do one...the old URL will continue to work even though you changed the title.

Posted By: MikeCC
Date Posted: 17-December-2009 at 11:49am

Thanks whizzinpc.

Got it from your comments and another thread on dropping info from URL that PC just uses the last part to pick up the product / category. So actual product name is not super-critical but as you say worth doing for well positioned pages (and perhaps avoiding any customer confusion).

Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 17-December-2009 at 12:07pm

When the SEO is enabled existing links to the store will still work just fine. All the links from the page and from the stores home page will be to the SEO named versions, or should be if you implemented the SEO correctly, so the search engines will index your store using the SEO URLs and new links built to your store would also use the new links. IMHO the effort involved in building specific rewrites for every product and category is not warranted and potentially prone to errors.

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