Comments on: Who needs SEO? Who needs a Competitive Advantage? Zen Cart users. http://www.johnon.com/234/seo-shopping-cart.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:01:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Need Some Help http://www.johnon.com/234/seo-shopping-cart.html#comment-115994 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:19:43 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/234/seo-shopping-cart.html#comment-115994 [...] installation of Zen Cart. I've done a some SEO work for eCommerce sites and was reminded of this article on Zen Cart and SEO . Here's an good nugget that describes exactly what I thought when I saw your urls. [...] […] installation of Zen Cart. I’ve done a some SEO work for eCommerce sites and was reminded of this article on Zen Cart and SEO . Here’s an good nugget that describes exactly what I thought when I saw your urls. […]

]]> by: MA http://www.johnon.com/234/seo-shopping-cart.html#comment-4073 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:00:48 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/234/seo-shopping-cart.html#comment-4073 SEO has been argued about for *years* at the Zen Cart forum from its inception, along with many other practical improvements to help create a successful ecommerce application. If you'd stuck with those arguments, as I did for years, you'd come to one conclusion - the Zen Cart developers do not get 'it'. They don't get usability, good design or SEO. They're developing Open Source Software in a closed loop. They know best, not their users. "So why so much trouble admitting that Zen Cart needs optimization?" There is much trouble admitting Zen Cart is lacking in any area - unless the devs have already admitted it themselves ... and they resemble ostriches when it comes to SEO. ;) Zen Cart can be successfully optimized using something like the 'Ultimate SEO URLs' plugin, just be prepared for plenty of work keeping it all working as new versions are released. Even with that plugin there is plenty of duplicate content (generated by sort pages, alternative product links, etc.) which require addition of 'nofollow' to fix. SEO has been argued about for *years* at the Zen Cart forum from its inception, along with many other practical improvements to help create a successful ecommerce application. If you’d stuck with those arguments, as I did for years, you’d come to one conclusion - the Zen Cart developers do not get ‘it’. They don’t get usability, good design or SEO. They’re developing Open Source Software in a closed loop. They know best, not their users.

“So why so much trouble admitting that Zen Cart needs optimization?”

There is much trouble admitting Zen Cart is lacking in any area - unless the devs have already admitted it themselves … and they resemble ostriches when it comes to SEO. ;)

Zen Cart can be successfully optimized using something like the ‘Ultimate SEO URLs’ plugin, just be prepared for plenty of work keeping it all working as new versions are released. Even with that plugin there is plenty of duplicate content (generated by sort pages, alternative product links, etc.) which require addition of ‘nofollow’ to fix.

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