Hi. On a few ecommerce review sites, I often hear OpenCart described as search engine friendly, whereas those descriptions are not applied to the likes of Zen, or Prestashop.
Exactly what is it that is different in OpenCart? That is a question, not a critique, as I want to use OpenCart to its fullest potential to attract customers.
Thanks...
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Opencart is anyday a Poor Guy's cart, i mean its very much affordable to customize if you wish to. There is active support Free and Paid.
I wish you good look with OC
From my own experience i can tell you that this is the best solution. best things are there in the core itself, if not then there are many cheap modules which can make your shop super seo-friendly. please search the forums and extention store.Having a high search engine ranking for your the keywords related to your products can mean the difference if your store takes high number of sales or not.
OpenCart is search optimised allowing pages to be indexed by all major search engines and includes support for custom product and category META tags.
Opencart is anyday a Poor Guy's cart, i mean its very much affordable to customize if you wish to. There is active support Free and Paid.
I wish you good look with OC
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Thanks 'beanbagshop'. I really like Opencart, I looked at it two years ago and it wasn't a mature enough solution then with few add ons available, but it has really moved on in the last two years. The people that have donated the free add ons have pushed the program to the point it is a true chellenger for the likes of Zen Cart and Prestashop now.
zen cart looks like an ancient cart to be honest...it's time for everyone to move over to something practical and stronger 
You really should start to use the search.
Plenty of topics regarding OC en SEO.
Plenty of topics regarding OC en SEO.
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Thanks.. I did type in 'Search engine friendly' but it came back with no results found. Was just curious as to why review sites specifically referred to OC as search engine friendly, but did not apply that terminology to any of the other carts.i2Paq wrote:You really should start to use the search.
Plenty of topics regarding OC en SEO.
I have always found the best SEO is offline marketing.
Thanks for your replies guys.....
turn on SEO function and it's SEO friendly
Sadly despite following all the instructions I cannot get the seo friendly thing to work at all, either on the live server or on my xampp enivronment. All I get is 404 errors..MarketInSG wrote:turn on SEO function and it's SEO friendly
My web host confirms the mod_rewrite is enabled. On my xampp environment the mod rewrite is enabled in the apache config file and all ovverides set to all. The .htaccess name change has been done, but still get 404 errors for every product where a seo keyword has been inserted in the data section of the product.
If you did not install in the root directory, changes need to be made to the .htaccess file. Open it up and you should find references to it.
Thanks 'MarketInSG'. Have tried everything with the .htaccess file but with no joy. Going to have to put that feature onto the back burner for a little while, as have already spent far too much time on it already.
Given "it wasn't a mature enough" I will not resist: at 1.5.0 OC was already amply mature enough to outdo anything that any competitor could do then or since, and a good many installations of it are still in full force and effect, alive and live. Mumble, mutter.
If it's taking too much time, then turn it off till you have time. Nowadays any host worth even a grain of salt has both Apache running and mod_rewrite enabled. These steps are basic rocket science: aim then launch.
(1) In .htaccess the store's own root must be specified, so that'll be either / or /storename/ (there's a # commented line showing so).
(2) In both config.php files all of the HTTP, HTTPS, and DIR lines must conform to what is. Exactly.
(3) Each place "where a seo keyword has been inserted" was the insertion unique (there's a default instruction that is actually a wee tad hard to miss)?
(4) Check the checkbox.
If it's taking too much time, then turn it off till you have time. Nowadays any host worth even a grain of salt has both Apache running and mod_rewrite enabled. These steps are basic rocket science: aim then launch.
(1) In .htaccess the store's own root must be specified, so that'll be either / or /storename/ (there's a # commented line showing so).
(2) In both config.php files all of the HTTP, HTTPS, and DIR lines must conform to what is. Exactly.
(3) Each place "where a seo keyword has been inserted" was the insertion unique (there's a default instruction that is actually a wee tad hard to miss)?
(4) Check the checkbox.
Last time I used Opencart it was on v1.4.7 or 8. Then there was no shipping estimator in the core program meaning customers didn't know what the shipping was until they had filled all their details in (not good)! There was also an issue with templates not working with newer versions as I seem to remember. That is all in the past though and the program has moved on.butte wrote:Given "it wasn't a mature enough" I will not resist: at 1.5.0 OC was already amply mature enough to outdo anything that any competitor could do then or since, and a good many installations of it are still in full force and effect, alive and live. Mumble, mutter.
The SEO thing on my live site has now finally been resolved. It was the .htaccess file not losing its .txt thing at the end. It will rename in a Linux environment, but not in a Windows xampp environment. I am putting xampp in a virtual (Ubuntu) linux environment on my main tower tomorrow, but now it's gone past midnight and this dude has really got to sleep now.
Thanks for your assistance everyone.
Congrats. Yes, the change to 1.5.x was significant. Most extensions, modules, templates, etc., are version sensitive, even among 1.5.x.y where x varies. The ".txt thing at the end" is the file extension before it is renamed to dot and all-extension, which Windows doesn't like but tolerates. Apache requires its various .ht* files, and will run happily on Windows, and Windows will happily run Apache pro forma and standalone (with no AMP/LAMP/WAMP/XAMP nonsense). The .htaccess will readily rename to that on the Windows machine if you use a pure text editor (freeware Crimson Editor, for example), or if you point FileZilla straight at its own machine and rename that way (right-click, rename). You just won't easily cause Windows Explorer or the command line to do it. On a LInux machine renaming to .htaccess should be no problem at all. On a Linux machine, and for that matter on a Windows machine, you might as well install Apache, php, mysql, etc., to run in and of themselves, they do NOT NEED the *AMP quagmire. Sleep tight.
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It is very simple but looks good once you get a nice theme and edit it to your own needs.
It's very easy to use and also easily etendable if you know programming or you can easily find extensions right from the OpenCart website(recommended) - paid and free, although most of the better ones are paid, but worth it. The pre-installed options are not as many as Magento and SEO is very weak *by default*, but again with extension you can very much cover this.
It is very simple but looks good once you get a nice theme and edit it to your own needs.
It's very easy to use and also easily etendable if you know programming or you can easily find extensions right from the OpenCart website(recommended) - paid and free, although most of the better ones are paid, but worth it. The pre-installed options are not as many as Magento and SEO is very weak *by default*, but again with extension you can very much cover this.
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