2008/11/10 Chris Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The basic thinking behind it is that I wanted an easy way to create a type > of product like a T-shirt that has multiple sizes and colors, etc. The basic > shirt really only has 1 description but the customer may choose the size and > color at the time of ordering. They key is that each of these combinations > is a physical product so you would want an underlying inventoriable item > tied to each combo. So for a shirt with 3 sizes and 3 colors you would have > 9 different products. It felt repetitive to have to enter all 9 products, > why not create the Master product, associate the different options (size & > color) then automatically create the Variations you need? The variation > manager, then provides a nice way to manage those variations if you need to.
I think it's a good approach, but it has a problem: Search Engine Optimization. If you have a page for every product variation (and you put it on sitemap.xml), you divide by 9 the pagerank of that page. It should be better to have an option that removes from sitemap the product variation page and redirect permanently the page to the generic product. It's not necessary to have a page for every t-shirt, you can send the user to the general page and have search engines happy because they don't have to spider n_products*n_variants pages, with performance and pagerank loss. -- Alessandro Ronchi Skype: aronchi http://www.alessandroronchi.net SOASI Soc.Coop. - www.soasi.com Sviluppo Software e Sistemi Open Source Sede: Via Poggiali 2/bis, 47100 Forlì (FC) Tel.: +39 0543 798985 - Fax: +39 0543 579928 Rispetta l'ambiente: se non ti è necessario, non stampare questa mail --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
