I have been doing a lot of studying on a huge topic — Search Engine Optimization. One of the things I’ve learned about is the advantage of having ‘pretty’ url’s, i.e., url’s that contain keyword text. So, I have been working away at creating nice url’s for all Hyena Cart listings. I’ve just made the changes live. While I tested as much as I could, there may still be some bugs in the system, so please let me know if you have trouble viewing listings, purchasing, spotting, etc.
One other advantage of the nice url’s is that when the links are cut and paste in forums, blogs, facebook, etc., the store name and the title of the item are part of the link, giving a better idea of the link content.
Hopefully we’ll see our listings rise in the search engine rankings 🙂
If this goes smoothly, I’ll be working on changing the facebook and google products links as well. All of the old links still work, so no worries there.
Thanks everyone!
Cool! Thanks 🙂
As always you keep making it better and better, Thanks so much!
Thanks for all of your hard work!
Thanks for all your hard work!
So how exactly do the new urls work? Where do they take the keywords from? Does it matter what I use in the product title for HC urls?
~Amy Sue
Thanks Karen!
Amy, it looks like the new URLs will keep your store (or congo) name in them along with the title of your listing.
That’s great Karen! I love that change, that’s a big plus to me and just seems so much more professional! I also love seeing the name of items/stores in the links on message boards. Makes it more ‘clickable-friendly’ to me.
Wonderful! I actually added a different cart system last spring because of this issue. Really glad to see us moving in this direction here. My other cart gets a much wider variety of hits because of the opportunity to create page specific meta tags for every listing.
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