Comments on: DigiShop and Search Engine Optimization http://blog.awpny.com/2008/02/digishop-and-search-engine-optimization/ "The frog can show you how to grow by making intelligent use of whatever opportunity is available." - medicine wheel Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:52:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lanai http://blog.awpny.com/2008/02/digishop-and-search-engine-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-8324 Lanai Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:19:40 +0000 http://www.ancientwisdompro.com/blog/archives/190#comment-8324 Great work. Great work.

]]> By: mark http://blog.awpny.com/2008/02/digishop-and-search-engine-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-4484 mark Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:14:43 +0000 http://www.ancientwisdompro.com/blog/archives/190#comment-4484 We use digishop too and we use the seo feature that rebuilds the pages. But when you do this, its important to use robots.txt to block the cart.php file. This way engines cannot crawl the dynamic urls and duplicate content issues are avoided. Hope that helps. About 5.3, there is a big problem to watch out for with the mod-rewrite. We were excited to switch over from the static pages to the re-written urls, but it seems they have changed the url structure by adding in numbers for the categories. This means that we would lose all of our indexed pages in google, yahoo, msn and many many others. Also, all pagerank built up would be gone on those pages. Its basically like starting your store over from scratch. No thanks. So unless something changes, we can no longer continue upgrading with digishop. Unless of course we continue to use static pages, but we really what to get away from that. Matt, any thoughts? We use digishop too and we use the seo feature that rebuilds the pages. But when you do this, its important to use robots.txt to block the cart.php file. This way engines cannot crawl the dynamic urls and duplicate content issues are avoided. Hope that helps.

About 5.3, there is a big problem to watch out for with the mod-rewrite. We were excited to switch over from the static pages to the re-written urls, but it seems they have changed the url structure by adding in numbers for the categories. This means that we would lose all of our indexed pages in google, yahoo, msn and many many others. Also, all pagerank built up would be gone on those pages. Its basically like starting your store over from scratch. No thanks. So unless something changes, we can no longer continue upgrading with digishop. Unless of course we continue to use static pages, but we really what to get away from that. Matt, any thoughts?

]]> By: Matt DeLong http://blog.awpny.com/2008/02/digishop-and-search-engine-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-4294 Matt DeLong Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:18:57 +0000 http://www.ancientwisdompro.com/blog/archives/190#comment-4294 Although you are correct about digishop's SEO optimization. The new version of digiSHOP (version 5.3.0) has the option to enable mod re-write instead. The reason the static catalog exists is for people who don't have the option to use mod rewrite (not all webhosting companies offer mod rewrite), so a sample url is: http://127.0.0.1/Products/Shoes/Nike-c18/ Although you are correct about digishop’s SEO optimization. The new version of digiSHOP (version 5.3.0) has the option to enable mod re-write instead. The reason the static catalog exists is for people who don’t have the option to use mod rewrite (not all webhosting companies offer mod rewrite), so a sample url is:
http://127.0.0.1/Products/Shoes/Nike-c18/

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