December 16th, 2008Shopping Cart SEO

Whatever you business is, if it is based on sales and online promotion, it matters to have a super functional Shopping Cart and Search Optimization for the same, cause if you won’t have prospective buyers reaching to your websites, you will never be able to make sales.

As there are plenty of shopping carts out there, it is important that you choose the best one, however, whichever you have used it is critical to optimize your online store for search engines.

As in the case of simpler processors like PayPal, Google Checkout, you just need to worry about optimizing the web pages on your website. In case you are using other complex shopping carts it is important that you make special effort to make them SEO friendly.

We get plenty of clients, who have a great store, amazing inventory and unbeatable pricing but they do not have visitors, which makes their business to suffer.

There are plenty of so called SEO specialist sharks, who will like you to enroll into their promotion packages, little they will explain what are they going to do with your website… sometimes this can be fatal, if the SEO company that you choose is stressing on unethical ways and is concentrating less at onsite improvements.

There are following three important things for you to note on your shopping cart, if you want to make your website Search Engine Friendly

  • Make sure it your shopping cart is simple, clean and scalable
  • You must get to control your page titles, meta tags and alt attributes.
  • Search engine readable URLs for your pages and also filenames.

One approach that is useful, is to allow dynamic, yet Search Engine friendly product catalog and detailed pages as static web pages. If you are adding a shopping cart to your existing website you will also need to ensure that any existing rankings are not lost.

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Sometimes you can not afford to get a custom shopping cart coded, the perfect solution to this situation is to get the best of the Open Source Shopping Carts.

We have used, reviewed and tries our hands on plenty of open source shopping carts and put together a list of the best carts. Following are the best ones:

Magneto is a professional opensource ecommerce solution offering flexibility and control. Magento is amazing and advanced. Unbelievably It is for free. It features clean urls which are great for SEO. The entire set up is completely Scalable, Professional and has a great community support. This Shopping cart also allows smooth Integration with 3rd party apps.

Opencart is an opensource PHP based shopping cart. OpenCart is easy to use and is SEO optimized comes with a very nice interface. A great feature of OpenCart is that customers can put in their reviews of the products.

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