Best shopping cart "search engine friendly"

[matrixdecals]

Hi All,

I'm looking for an shopping cart that is search engine friendly. I'm about to build a vinyl sticker website and before processing, I'll like to make sure that i'll not have to rebuild the site from scratch again.

I've been looking at 0S-COMMERCE and ZEN CART but my issue is to know if those shopping carts are search engine friendly. I'm looking more on using a PHP/MYSQL base shopping cart.

Since i'm new in this forum hope to receive some good advice from this community.

Matrix

[AussieWebmaster]

Hi All,

I'm looking for an shopping cart that is search engine friendly. I'm about to build a vinyl sticker website and before processing, I'll like to make sure that i'll not have to rebuild the site from scratch again.

I've been looking at 0S-COMMERCE and ZEN CART but my issue is to know if those shopping carts are search engine friendly. I'm looking more on using a PHP/MYSQL base shopping cart.

Since i'm new in this forum hope to receive some good advice from this community.

Matrix
Yes OSCommerce is search engine friendly - they have a hack to convert files to static html. You should check out their forum - there is a lot of support there. www.oscommerce.com

[matrixdecals]

Thanks for the reply:

I've made some research and have found :

www.mambo-phpshop.net

www.zencart.com

www.oscommerce.com

I've also look at www.searchfit.us.com (which is a monthly e-commerce service) , a real search engine friendly shopping cart but a little expensive for my budget.

Does anyone on this forum have used the MAMBO shopping cart it's free and look more easy to customize then "os-commerce or zen cart".

James

[AussieWebmaster]

Thanks for the reply:

I've made some research and have found :

www.mambo-phpshop.net (http://www.mambo-phpshop.net)

www.zencart.com (http://www.zencart.com)

www.oscommerce.com (http://www.oscommerce.com)

I've also look at www.searchfit.us.com (http://www.searchfit.us.com) (which is a monthly e-commerce service) , a real search engine friendly shopping cart but a little expensive for my budget.

Does anyone on this forum have used the MAMBO shopping cart it's free and look more easy to customize then "os-commerce or zen cart".

James
Mambo has great potential as it is also a portal program and content management software.

X-Cart is a solid VAR of oscommerce - $100 gets a lot of templated

[DianeV]

I'm sorry, AussieWebmaster -- it looks like your post was unfinished. Are you saying that X-Cart has added some type of (better?) templating functionality to the OScommerce base?

I'm also doing a bit of testing of shopping carts. Will share what I find when I find it.

[AussieWebmaster]

I'm sorry, AussieWebmaster -- it looks like your post was unfinished. Are you saying that X-Cart has added some type of (better?) templating functionality to the OScommerce base?

I'm also doing a bit of testing of shopping carts. Will share what I find when I find it.
Yes it does and it also has a lot more templates etc. available... and can adapt anyting new added to OSCommerce as that is its base.

Worth at least checking out!!!

[DianeV]

Interesting. I'd heard that OScommerce is a little tough to deal with. I'm liking what I read on x-cart's site, though. I'll check it out -- and thanks. :-)

[AussieWebmaster]

Interesting. I'd heard that OScommerce is a little tough to deal with. I'm liking what I read on x-cart's site, though. I'll check it out -- and thanks. :-)
I have used OSCommerce... it can be tricky especially if you want to cutomise the look... it does not have a global rea to make the changes so you need to go within all of the categories etc. to make sure all changes are done.
X-Cart gets around that I am pretty sure.

[DianeV]

Okay, thanks.

I used a cart that appears to have been based on OScommerce. It had one huge "template" that contained *every* feature of the shopping cart; it also had an admin section where one could input/change portions of the HTML and variables. I think there must have been at least 30-50 of these sections, and they weren't all well named. <fun>

I look forward to checking out x-cart.