Add a Doctype declaration to your Optimizer pages.
Doc who? Doctype: an obscure HTML tag that has become increasingly important to both search engines and proper page rendering in browsers. Just type DocType and SEO into Google and find out. Up till now, there was no way to get Doc Types properly entered into Merchant 4.x stores...that is until now. Find the right DocType for your purposes, paste it into a box...and let Optimizer do the rest.
Get dedicated-server performance and better search engine optimization for your Miva Merchant store from a module.
Merchant Optimizer™ is a simple, fast and "thought-free" way of getting dedicated server-like performance from any site...it even boosts performance on sites already on a dedicated server. Optimizer is also a perfect solution for quick and easy implementation of Search Friendly Links (AKA: short links, SEO links, etc). Optimizer pages are accessed through a link like: www.mydomain.com/products/Great-widgets.html instead of www.mydomain.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=WID&Product_code=Great-widgets.
If your site is bogging down from too many "just looking" visitors or if you're not seeing your Miva Merchant store in search engines results, then Merchant Optimizer™ is the perfect tool for you. Merchant Optimizer™ works by creating exact copies of your Miva Merchant store's screens, saving them as standard HTML pages in an alternate directory. These static pages are much easier for your server to serve to your customers and for search engines to scan and index. With a few additional tricks, you can direct all browsing to be done in the static pages. Or, you can just use the static pages as entry points for your Merchant store's dynamically generated screens. You can create separate static pages for different affiliates, or even for different domains. For example, you can create a mirror site on a different domain that's and exact duplicate, or has a different look and feel from your store. (This second store could be configured with an affiliate link, and those hits tracked by any compatible affiliate module such as Merchant's built in affiliate module or VikingCoders.com Affiliate Manager.)
"It is very simple to use. We've done a number of sites that are fully templated (from the doctype down to the closing </HTML> tag)...these changes gave us TONS of flexibility, but really slowed the site down. To compensate, we use Merchant Optimizer to create static product and category pages. Merchant Optimizer really is a great product, and combining it with other technologies makes it very flexible as well."
Susan Petracco -- www.netblazon.com
As you can see, this module is both absurdly simple to operate, yet limitless in its applications. A little imagination can go a long way.
In addition to its performance benefits, Optimizer creates a url profile of your site that search engines love. Instead of:
www.somedomain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_code=This-Product$Store_Code=This-Store
Optimizer can creates the page as:
www.somedomain.com/great/products/This-Product.html
This module can be used with any compiled Merchant store. Version 4.14 and higher. It does not require OpenUI.
See what other's say about Merchant Optimizer™:
"I love Merchant Optimizer™! It is without a doubt the only "Search Engine Killer" module that can truly claim the title! No funny business, just pure html pages for the ultimate in SEO."
Marc Mercier, The Sausage Source -- www.sausagesource.com
"I'm absolutely loving the program - we are now showing up all over the search engines and its so painless."
Brenda Nishimoto - www.venetianbeadshop.com
"Optimizer is worth every penny...The biggest result is indexing the product pages. For example, one of our new items is a heart pendant watch. Before Optimizer, searching for "heart pendant watch" resulted in our site being listed on the 70th to 120th listing, now its #1. This is just Optimizer cranking out the pages, without any additional work...and on an MMUI site.
Ahmed Saad - www.giftaroo.com
"Even with a three dedicated machines, we could not handle our holiday and other peak traffic without Merchant Optimizer. When Stupid.com is spot-lighted on Jay Leno or Good Morning America, traffic spikes to 20,000 simultaneous visitors...while its nice to have that traffic, we have to be sure actual purchasers get through the cart without delay. Oh, and every Optimizer produced product page ranks 100's of positions ahead of its Merchant generated version."
Gary Apple - www.stupid.com
See it in action:
[Netblazon.com sites]
wonderbrains.com
mypapershop.com
katom.com
madcattoys.com
pennstateind.com
Fashionable Canes and Walking Sticks
Stupid.com
Sausage Source
Venetianbeadshop.com
Giftaroo.com
Read up on it:
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