Comments on: osCommerce SEO URL Solution http://www.everybodygoto.com/2007/06/20/oscommerce-seo-url-solution/ going where no blog has gone before Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:54:13 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric Smith http://www.everybodygoto.com/2007/06/20/oscommerce-seo-url-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-40478 Eric Smith Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:18:32 +0000 http://www.everybodygoto.com/2007/06/20/oscommerce-seo-url-solution/#comment-40478 Would this work with sites from <a href="http://www.ibanezwebsolutions.com" rel="nofollow">IbanezWebSolutions</a>? Would this work with sites from IbanezWebSolutions?

]]> By: Kym http://www.everybodygoto.com/2007/06/20/oscommerce-seo-url-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-33355 Kym Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:57:58 +0000 http://www.everybodygoto.com/2007/06/20/oscommerce-seo-url-solution/#comment-33355 Great post! Opens a lot of good discussion The URLs produced by osCommerce MS2.2 are standard URLs produced by any php based site and nothing specifically to do with osCommerce. While it might have been an issues at one time, Search Engines spiders have no problems reading them these days. Any changes to php based URL's is generally done by use of mod_rewrite which is dependent on server settings. The product you mention is a commercial product. However, there are quite a few contributions on the osCommerce Contributions site that can modify URLs to be more search engine friendly which are completely free to use. The most lauded being Ultimate SE URLs by Chemo. However the bottom line is that Search Engines are quite intelligent these days and they can quite easily read php URLs such as you describe. So changing them is not a requirement in order to get indexed. As evidenced by the numerous osCommerce sites that are indexed by Google and in fact make page #1 of Google. With SEO it still remains that optimized content and good backlinks are the things to focus on. With URLs the idea is to add keywords and make them more human friendly. Great post! Opens a lot of good discussion

The URLs produced by osCommerce MS2.2 are standard URLs produced by any php based site and nothing specifically to do with osCommerce. While it might have been an issues at one time, Search Engines spiders have no problems reading them these days.

Any changes to php based URL’s is generally done by use of mod_rewrite which is dependent on server settings. The product you mention is a commercial product. However, there are quite a few contributions on the osCommerce Contributions site that can modify URLs to be more search engine friendly which are completely free to use. The most lauded being Ultimate SE URLs by Chemo.

However the bottom line is that Search Engines are quite intelligent these days and they can quite easily read php URLs such as you describe. So changing them is not a requirement in order to get indexed. As evidenced by the numerous osCommerce sites that are indexed by Google and in fact make page #1 of Google.

With SEO it still remains that optimized content and good backlinks are the things to focus on. With URLs the idea is to add keywords and make them more human friendly.

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