[BNM] best SEO friendly eCommerce packages

[Russell Beech]

Picking up on point 5 there - Actinic's search facility is utter gash.
Hopefully they've improved it in version 8.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Wilsdon [mailto:n.wilsdon at e3internet.com] 
Sent: 09 October 2006 12:12
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: Re: [BNM] best SEO friendly eCommerce packages

> Anyone got any prefercences for the best off-the-shelf eCommerce package
to use for best SEO?

My 2p

Basically 90% of SEO at the moment is about off-site link building these
days (getting your site into the trustbox with the right authority links and
neighbourhood positioning). 

Table based HTML doesn't affect your ranking - just make sure the package
performs on the following criteria:

1) Can it index each and every product page? Most enquiries into the site
will come off the long tail enquiries - make sure the database is open to
the SEs. I usually do a few copy and paste searches off someone else's site
to determine that. 

2) Does it use product names in the URLs and internal links?

3) Does the package put the product name and category into the title META -
can you edit this to remove surplus (don't dilute the KWD in the title)

4) Does the package output a list of product links (sitemap/pricelist etc.)
that you can link to from the index page? 

5) How good is the search function? Does it handle multiple/single keyword
queries, + operators, plurals (with or without 's')? 

Best Regards,
 
Nick 
 
CEO
e3internet
http://www.e3internet.com 
 


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