[ic] IC and search engines

Wed Feb 27 20:07:00 2002

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:34:54PM -0500, sphen boyle wrote:
> has anyone figured out a way to trick search engines into ranking the 
> interchange pages?  looking at past logs, we used to get a lot of people 
> finding us at google and other search engines, and ever since we started 
> using interchange, our orders have gone down and our rankings have 
> disappeared.  i would think that this would be a very important issue 
> regarding interchange.  any ideas would be great.

There are all sorts of ways.  Most of them will depend on your web server,
not on IC.  Search the mailing list archives for rewrite.

> 
> -sphen
> 
> On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 08:40  PM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> 
> >Steven Potter <potter@softhome.net> writes:
> >
> >>I'm sure many of you know that most search engines will not spider sites
> >>that have ?'s in the URL.  Has anyone tried implementing a setup where IC
> >>will not assign a unique id until the first item is  placed in the cart?
> >>  Or
> >>any other methods of getting rid of the ? in the URL.
> >>
> >>
> >>BTW, this would also be handy for search engines like google who will 
> >>spider
> >>sites with ?'s but it caused the problem of everyone entering your site 
> >>from
> >>google with have the same ID.
> >
> >You can drop the ID, but you have to force your users to use cookies.
> >
> >ScratchDefault mv_no_session_id 1
> >
> >Ciao
> >        Racke
> >
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