I was considering making my own system to handle my product category search results, and I was hoping to get your opinions on the idea. Currently, my category pages are made up of 1-3 pages of displayed items. The searches for the displayed items are done in-page so I have 19 different category pages, each page named with its category. What this results in is when a link to a product category is clicked, the URL changes to www.mystore.com/cgi-bin/cat/category.html. The URL is thus very clean and when IC 5.0 is released the [mv_tmp_session] feature will allow the URL to be perfect for search engine indexing as it will contain no query strings (when requested by a spider). Also, the "category" text in the URL will make the page rank higher for a search term such as "category". However, the next 1-2 pages of each category display (Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3), which are linked to via [more] tags, have very messy URLs with something like this: www.mystore.com/cgi-bin/cat/scan/MM=571aedb8936b4d36ae73662be78b10b9:9:17:9? mv_session_id=phJTbBEsm&mv_pc=5&mv_more_ip=1&mv_nextpage=page I was considering setting up maybe 10 pages per category (they could be almost identical, and maybe identical once I really think about it) something like this: category_p1.html, category_p2.html, etc. I could then structure the pages myself to only show nine (my match limit) items per page and generate the appropriate "Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3" links depending on how many items are returned from the in-page category search. This would mean that ALL of my category pages are search-engine friendly for the two reasons mentioned above, AND all of my products on their flypages which are only linked to in the pages beyond Page 1 of the category pages will be indexed when they otherwise would not. What do you guys think? - Grant _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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