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Default Re: cardiokickbox.ca

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Originally Posted by ran_dizolph View Post
It's the first 'customizable' cart I've implemented that is ACTUALLY relatively customizable. I'll be using this one more often.

Only thing with that would be extremely long URLs...I mean, it's highly unlikely I'd be coming up anywhere for 'water bottles', so it'd have to be something considerably longer and more detailed than that to be of any use.
I'm looking for a nice CSS layout for a site redesign myself. Time to tweak the checkout pages as well. I know what needs to be done, it's just that it's a major undertaking in VP-ASP. I really hate the dynamically generated forms, much more complex than they need to be IMHO.

You can include 3-4 attributes in the URL, include them in your sitemap and Google will see them. If, from your cart's perspective, the only real attribute that matters is the item id, you can tag on whatever you want and it doesn't matter how the user bookmarks it.

For example, check this out:

Brother TN-350

I've set up my product listings to tag on the item name. As I said, it doesn't matter to the cart scripts that there are extra attributes in the querystring but it helps in the SERPs because I've appended relevant keywords for a search query that users might likely use.

In the following example, the top url is the generic link generated by the cart by default and the second contains the appended "item" attribute.

HTML Code:
http://www.inkjetoasis.ca/shopexd.asp?id=218
http://www.inkjetoasis.ca/shopexd.asp?id=218&item=Brother_TN-350