silklink Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 Hi I have searched Google and within osCommerce, but I don't think this is covered yet. Does anyone know if osCommerce has the ability to handle Google's http header request (GET) for 'if-modified-since'? Basically, Google will send this request to your currently indexed pages to determine if they have been updated. If not, a 304 code is returned and Google moves on - no change. If so, then a 200 code is sent along with the requested page. However, I think the header would have to be handled by PHP rather than within Apache so that each page can grab its content and, importantly, the update date from the database. I guess that Apache would simply look at the date of the document if it were a hard coded, non-dynamic page of html. Would appreciate some feedback on this
silklink Posted September 11, 2010 Author Posted September 11, 2010 A bit more on this topic found out... When sessions are used with PHP, the default setting is for the headers to be set to no-cache and these are sent out after starting the session. However they can be modified to, for example, a public setting. I haven't really paid much attention to these headers until now, but I think they are quite important in SEO terms as well as helping clients to load pages a bit quicker next time visited, etc. Do you think that Header Tags SEO might cater for this? I have an older version loaded onto my sites. I've had a read of the latest version which has gone through many recent changes but there doesn't appear to be anything obvious on this topic
cclayton Posted October 26, 2012 Posted October 26, 2012 I dont suppose anyone has come up with a solution for this? Founder & Director at CSC Tours Ltd
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