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I am looking for referrals on a new shopping cart for my wife's fashion jewelry website ( www.panachechic.com ). The site is currently using php and mysql so I am targeting a compatible shopping cart. Some of the considerations I have are:

Search Engine friendly URLs
Grouping Hierarchy
Customizable Title Tags
Customizable Meta Tags

Please let me know there are any other considerations or if you have a specific cart you suggest.
Thanks!

Tags: cart, ecommere, engine, optimization, search, seo, shopping

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Permalink Reply by Ken Zweigel on May 20, 2008 at 10:05pm: Chad,

The problem of finding a search engine-friendly shopping cart has been around for quite some time. I have been working on solvng this problem for several years and have developed a shopping cart combined with a content management system that was developed from the ground up strictly to benefit from SEO.

Here is an example of a site that uses this shopping cart: Miniature Guitars by Axe Heaven

This site has not only received excellent organic rankings and traffic from Google, but, as a result of our branding and marketing strategies, in only five months it has attracted several rock stars who now have exclusive merchandising agreements with the site owners, who started this as a hobby site. They just moved from Indy to California to be closer to the action of the rock and roll world becaiuse of all of the activity from the site.

Our optimized shopping cart has the features you seek and much more that can truly help your rankings efforts and your sales results. All other shopping carts on the market that I know of that claim to be search engine-friendly solve the problems of database-driven sites with workarounds and URL re-writes, where we actually deliver the static product pages the search engines prefer, which you can see by viewing any products on the Axe Heaven website.

I would be delighted to show you all of the features and benefits of our cart if you are interested in learning more. Please feel free to contact me at your convenience.

Ken at DRIVE, the engine to drive your business
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Permalink Reply by Vincent Francesi on May 23, 2008 at 11:48pm: Hi Chad!

Here is a shopping cart that looks like it has real potential: http://www.magentocommerce.com/

I have not installed it myself yet but it looks very user friendly. I have done a considerable amount of development in OScommerce adding many of the features that Magento comes with.

If you give it a try let me know I'd love to hear some opinions of other people using it!

Vince Francesi
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Permalink Reply by Angela Halloran on October 4, 2008 at 4:18pm: Hi Chad,

We offer a shopping cart that we have been using ourselves for years. Its a great cart that is easy to use giving you your own admin panel so that you can easily manage the site yourself and is fully customizable on the design end so we can make the store look anyway you would like, even using your current design:

As for SEO here are a few of our key features:
Search engine friendly product pages and links including the ability to generate static HTML pages
All pages can be easily indexed for all major search engines and crawlers
Set your own meta-tags for every product and other pages throughout the cart

If you would like to see a full list of our features you can visit our site here: http://www.creativejuicestudio.com/sunshop.html

If you would like to chat more, please let me know.

Thanks,
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Permalink Reply by Matt Zentz on October 5, 2008 at 7:32pm: Chad, Adam didn't tell you about the e-commerce module that we're adding to Marketpath CMS? I'll have him get in touch with you to talk about it. Since we plan on engaging in some business soon, perhaps we could discuss a barter of some sort.; ▶ Reply to This

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