Google and oscommerce

[Ricky]

HI..

I have not yet done much with oscommerce but understanding it .. (new to php) so havingn littl prob..

is oscommerce is google friendly ?

[Guest]

yes very!

[katie81]

can someone give me a quick rundown of all the google/spider concerns with oscommerce, theres ALOT about it on these forums but its a bit confusing.

 

thanks,

katie

[Guest]

Hello,

 

Just make sure that you have the sid killer contribution installed (it kills the session id if its a robot visiting) - and google will index you fine. (with or without SEF urls).

 

People have alot of concerns but i personaly have no problems what so ever - another good contribution is the dynamic meta data contribution. It puts more relevent titles and meta data on your product info page. Then just submit once and get as many back-links as possible. You will get listed no problems > For example< this site has been online for only 3 months.

 

Sam

[stevel]

You don't need the sid_killer if you have 2.2-MS2. There's now an admin option to prevent "spider sessions" (under "Sessions").

 

Google does fine with osC though my logs find it occasionally gets redirected to cookie_usage.php, and I don't have cookies forced on at my site. It seems semi-random as to when this happens, other product pages it indexes fine.

[sam6]

Just make sure that you have the sid killer contribution installed (it kills the session id if its a robot visiting) - and google will index you fine. (with or without SEF urls).

If you are using osc milestone 2

you just have to enable prevent spider session in admin under configuration>sessions