Zen Cart Tips and Tricks

One of the problems I find with e-commerce sites is it’s difficult to get chunks of content for search engines to get a hold off.  E-commerce sites tend to be product images, one liner product titles, with the best opportunity of getting any real keyword-rich content being the product description or category description. It’s important [...]

So in part one of nofollow your way to more pages in Google I, hopefully, explained how you can use the nofollow tag in your internal links to get Google to pay more attention to the more important zen cart page, like the category and product pages.
In part 2 I’ll show you how to add [...]

OK before I continue this article, don’t get all excited thinking that what I’m say here will get you number one for your keywords in Google. It’s just something I’ve been reading a lot about on the SEO blogs and forums and it appears to help with getting more pages into the search engine indexes [...]

This may sound obvious but getting the name of your categories and products is vitally important. Not just to make your site user friendly but also to help search engines get a good idea of what that page is about.
The heading at the top of the zen cart system is in a H1 tag, which [...]

The site map feature in Zen Cart is great. It helps search engines index your pages and can help customers find what they are looking for, especially on the 404 error pages.
There is another type of sitemap, well actually there are a few other types. XML, ROR, Text and HTML. There are plenty of scripts [...]