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Ecommerce websites have their own very specific needs when it comes to SEO.  Whether your site sells a small handful of products or several thousand, it needs to be optimized effectively so that search spiders can easily crawl it without confusion and rank it well.  Here are a few tips for optimizing ecommerce sites: 1) Make use of the canonical tag on categories with multiple pages to avoid duplicate [...]

Zen-Cart is a great open source shopping cart solution.  It offers a robust product categorization system and comes pre-integrated with many shipping and payment options.   Unfortunately, Zen-Cart is not a very SEO friendly thing right out of the box.  It takes installing a few addons to bring it up to speed, making it more spiderable and easier to rank. Here are a few of my favorite Zen-Cart SEO [...]