On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Alessandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 2008/11/10 Chris Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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. > Actually, that is nearly the way it works. You end up with a master page which shows variations. If you go to the productvariation page, it just shows the master page, but with the variation's options already selected. I agree that we should remove the variation pages from sitemap.xml, but it is useful functionality to have specific variations be resolvable via URL. Bruce Kroeze http://gosatchmo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
