Shopping Carts

[jacobwissler]

I seem to recall that someone posted a list of "search engine friendly shopping carts" but now I can't find the thread? Can anyone help?

[DMC_34]

I guess my first question would be:

Why on earth would you want a search engine friendly cart? Cart are made for individuals not the general page. Populated carts are unique to the user and therefore POOR targets for indexing. Is a cart page a new high ROI landing page LOL

DMC

[khurramali]

It is usually a good idea to create door way pages for shopping sites.

I mean Good Door Way Pages (not the bad ones) which are properly optimized and they in turn link to individual products pages in the shopping cart.

So these pages will be the landing pages on which the search engines will bring the traffic to, these pages will be for customer education about the products etc. if the customer feels like buying the product, he can just click one of the links to the shopping cart and buy the products.

Usually it is easier to optimize .htm pages rather than to mess with shopping cart .asp or .php pages.

Because the structure of shopping cart is different from the content / text pages.

While shopping cart pages focus on just the products with lots of pictures and less content.

[williamc]

Being that nobody else is actually answering your question, here are the ones we use regularly:

Miva Merchant
Monster Commerce
OSCommerce
Volusion

[williamc]

Usually it is easier to optimize .htm pages rather than to mess with shopping cart .asp or .php pages.

Actually, umm no... most popular shopping carts use html template systems...

Populated carts are unique to the user and therefore POOR targets for indexing.

Umm, I almost do not know how to respond here without a tone of astonishment... He means the shopping cart software, not filled out cart pages... And anyone who uses a cart system to run an ecommerce site that is not SEF, is a failure waiting to happen...

[dk1]

Shopping cart pages should place a cookie in the users browser so you know what they were buying

[SteveGerencser]

Most "modern" carts can be made SEO friendly.. Start with the one that most closely has the feature set that you need and go from there.. I hate Magento.. Bu tI do use OpenCart and ShopSite Pro for most of my clients..

[CKdavid]

you might wanna add my cart on the list: shoppingcartelite.com

[williamc]

you might wanna add my cart on the list

I have been on this forum for 7 years now, have contributed 2500 plus posts, and yet do not feel the need to drop my products urls in any thread I deem relevant... Maybe, just maybe you are trying too hard and it will get you the opposite effect than you are looking for...

[SmartAlec]

I have built 2 websites with Ashop shopping carts and we experienced very fast growth with both. They are about to release V2 as well so I can only hope it improves further.