skinnybloke Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Hi - just started looking at oscommerce and I am bit confused regarding search engine positioning. My understanding was that search engines could not index pages that were populated from databases at the time that they were viewed (as I believe oscommerce does). Yet I have noticed that several oscommerce sites have product pages indexed within google. Hoow is this achieved or is my understanding incorrect. regards David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxtel Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Hi - just started looking at oscommerce and I am bit confused regarding search engine positioning. My understanding was that search engines could not index pages that were populated from databases at the time that they were viewed (as I believe oscommerce does). Yet I have noticed that several oscommerce sites have product pages indexed within google. Hoow is this achieved or is my understanding incorrect. regards David <{POST_SNAPBACK}> the latter. static sites consist og html, dynamic ones just generate html, the net result is html. Treasurer MFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnybloke Posted May 3, 2005 Author Share Posted May 3, 2005 the latter. static sites consist og html, dynamic ones just generate html, the net result is html. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hi - I'm sorry - I'm a bit confused by your answer. Can search engine spiders read the titles and product details for products on oscommerce generated pages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥toyicebear Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 hi - I'm sorry - I'm a bit confused by your answer. Can search engine spiders read the titles and product details for products on oscommerce generated pages? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes they can.... Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxtel Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 hi - I'm sorry - I'm a bit confused by your answer. Can search engine spiders read the titles and product details for products on oscommerce generated pages? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> what I was trying to say was that with a static html website, YOU generate the contents in HTML long before someone requests to receive it in their browser. With OSC, as with any dynamic website, that HTML is generated the moment someone requests to receive it in their browser. The result in their browser is HTML in both cases and as such there is no difference regarding content. The url's may look strange at times but no SE I know of has any difficulty with handling dynamic urls. Note: as long as you keep the session id out of the url for spiders. Treasurer MFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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