Editor's review
Power SEO for osCommerce - osCommerce module is a powerful replacement for standard osCommerce SEO URLs feature with unique possibilities that work for Search Engine Optimization of your site.
Pros: Once in e-commerce business you need to constantly keep optimizing for better and better search engine placements. Readable URLs and URL that does not contain a whole sequence of meaningless combinations of letters and numbers help search engines find the relevant pages better and index them. The program is easily installed, three simple steps are all it takes. The settings page of the module is intuitive and user friendly. This software gives you ability to edit the keywords used for building SEO URLs. With SEO Keywords option added for each product and category you get the ability to put any words in your link, just the way you want it to appear to the search engines. Key parts are open source. So if you need to extend the capabilities of the SEO module to support your specific extensions. You are able to add smart 301 redirects to preserve existing SEO positions.
Dynamic URLs may cause search engine spiders to index multiple versions of the same page. Shopping cart allows many ways to get to the same product page; via categories tree, via manufacturer`s products list etc. This can make the engines mark these pages to be duplicate content and cause some penalties for your pages and page ranks. Using large number of additional parameters, for example, may cause some of your pages not being reached and indexed. No additional "products_id" "cPath" or other symbols in your links. Dynamic links for categories, products, manufacturers and content page are replaced with static links for best search engine optimization.
Cons: One should be aware of implications of changes made on the ranking. Similarly the search engines keep changing their search rules and hence this kind of software should remain on top of such changes.
Overall definitely a 4 star item.
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