I have recently completed this site, but I want to make the Ecwid store products “visible” to search engines. I have been told what to do, but I have no idea how to do it!
This is what (I’m told) I need to do:
Create a script and the script will need to do the following:
receive requests with the ‘escaped_fragment’ GET parameter
parse the request parameters and detect what product or category is requested
get the corresponding product/category data from your store via Ecwid Product API
generate an HTML version of product/category page with necessary title, meta tags, product description, product price, links to other pages etc.
Now then this is Chinese to me as I am a complete non-coder and Ajax to me was a cleaning product! (may still be).
Can anyone help me with the script etc I need and how to best to incorporate it into Freeway.
Please - as much of a non techy answer as you can!
Hi David,
I can certainly sympathise as I’ve been dealing with web development for over a decade and that Ecwid article you linked to isn’t too helpful. What I would suggest is to follow the guide for the old version of Ecwid and specifically download the example PHP files;
If you turn off JavaScript in your browser and refresh the page you should see a list of links to the categories and products. The search engine should index this content while your visitors see the JavaScript (Ajax) shopping cart.
You’ll need to swap out the regular Ecwid integration code on your Freeway pages for the PHP code provided. Since you are already using PHP on the site for WebYep the page file extensions can remain the same which is good.
I’ve not had too much experience with Ecwid but looking at the process adding this code shouldn’t be too tricky.
Regards,
Tim.
On 20 Mar 2013, at 19:33, David Smerdon wrote:
Please - as much of a non techy answer as you can!