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Rezac
Joined: Jan 25, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Feb-12 07:05
I've been wondering about my shopping cart program. You can see in my profile my site and several pages have 'buy' icons next to products.
I've noticed when you float the mouse there's a crazy URL and most carts I've compared with show no url.
Could this cause problems with my indexing/ranking/keyword positioning? 
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blueedge
Joined: Nov 09, 1999
# Posts: 92
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Posted: 2004-Feb-12 13:36
I can't see how the links for your "Buy" buttons would prevent your site from being index. However, since they are rather long dynamic links, the buy links may be difficult for a spider to follow. That might mean that your order pages (the pages that your buy buttons lead to) may not get indexed. But pages that can be access by other means should not be affected. Just my opinion.
I'm starting a search for a shopping cart. What shopping cart do you use and how do you like it?
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Rezac
Joined: Jan 25, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Feb-12 16:07
It's actually somewhat "home made" by my webhost. He has a unique way of doing things you could say. Instead of going from point A to Point B, he goes from POint A to Z then back to B.
But what would I need my check out pages indexed for?
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OAC
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Joined: Jan 25, 2001
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Posted: 2004-Feb-13 01:08
When other people refer to their shopping cart pages they are referring to their product and category pages. You have no product pages, only category pages. The category pages are the only pages that you would want indexed - your shopping cart page for a product has no useful indexable information on it. Thus, it doesn't matter that it has a long url containing gibberish - it shouldn't be indexed anyway.
If you waant to have a separate page for each product, I am sure your developer will ensure you have spiderable file names for each. He/she has done a good job on the category pages.
HTH 
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Rezac
Joined: Jan 25, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Feb-13 05:01
Thanks OAC,
What aspect do you think is good about the category pages...I do all the images, all the text.
Is there something here I'm not seeing?
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excell
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Joined: Mar 19, 2001
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Posted: 2004-Feb-13 06:07
The category pages are static html and search engine friendly - the shopping cart bit doesn't need to be indexed so don't worry.. to make the site even better it would be good to have the larger images on their own product page instead of just a link to your images directory. From a usability point of view it would be good as well.
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Rezac
Joined: Jan 25, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Feb-13 14:08
Thanks a mill
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