New Version 1.5 NOW AVAILABLE



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-Added option to use product Meta Keywords as product URL[/color]

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<FONT color=red>-Added option to remove category IDs from category name URLs[/color]

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<FONT color=red>-Added option to insert product SKU at the end of product URL[/color]

Introducing SmartURL for BVCommerce 2004






Maximizing Search Engine Optimization = More Sales


SmartURL was designed to increase search engine ranking, provide faster and more comprehensive indexing and give your BV Commerce Store maximum search engine optimization.


SmartURL automatically inserts names of categories, products and custom pages into the URL of your store. There is no need to write complicated URL rewriting scripts. It takes less then 1 min. to install SmartURL and maximize SEO for you store.


Default BVC 2004 URLs such as:


[color=red>http://www.mystore.com/][/color]

will become search engine optimized URLs such as:


<FONT color=red>http://www.mystore.com/my-great-product.html



leading to higher ranking and more comprehensive site indexing.



Please visit http://avecomgroup.com/smarturl-for-bvcommerce-2004.html for more information about SmartURL.



I would like to thank Cliff and Noah for a valuable input on this project!



Aram Avetissian

Avecom,LTD.

Prokat, I see your add-on is licensed per domain. Will it work on staging sites using IP's http://216.82.69.132/ or Local http://192.168.0.56 ?

prokat,
the provided link does not give much description.

a few questions:

is only the extension is configurable?
is this running as a filter?
is destination url overridden with your code ?
i see no category IDs - what if you have 6 categories that have the same category name but are all unique categories?

after going to isapi rewrite, and embedding category names, product names, and so on, we actually noticed no change in google and rankings.
how can this help me beyond isapi rewrite?

Scott Mech

James, we haven't seen any noticable load from the installations running. Number of cats and products are all over the place.

Prokat ran a load test against a live site on one of our servers and was able to pound the connections without issue.

We have a lot of internal links, I have included a sample page that shows what I mean.


http://www.atomicmods.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10540



Will this software break these links??

Robert,

There's a reason why it's called SmartURL :)

Install in 5-10 minutes and you'll be blown away. Worth way more than what you're paying!!!!!

None of those links will break, they'll actually be updated and you'll go WHAAAA, how'd they do that?!?!?

You'll want to be careful to remove any of the old style dynamic (id) links asap. You don't want Google or any other search engine seeing 'duplicate content' on your site!

No worries Robert. Any non-BV links will work as they always have. Your current dynamic BV links will always work as they had before.

We are quite fanatical when it comes to search engines and SEO in general, unless you reinstall this several times with different settings (creating another set of links) you will have only benefits from using it.

BTW - the warning above is misleading. You can't actually "remove" any dynamic BV links, they and BV will always run as it did regardless of using the tool or not. All the tool does is take the called out BV link to a product or category and rewrites it based on the settings you choose when you set it up.

The only way this will cause issues if if you get carried away with your naming convention. The magic to that whole end of it is something we don't discuss in the forums. ;-)

If Google has already indexed a dymanic page productID=10 for example.

If it then becomes keyword.htm then the old page will stay in google - it never ever forgets, this will then be seen as duplicated content.

No worries Robert. Any non-BV links will work as they always have. Your current dynamic BV links will always work as they had before.

We are quite fanatical when it comes to search engines and SEO in general, unless you reinstall this several times with different settings (creating another set of links) you will have only benefits from using it.