[Yang Xu]

Originally Posted by Jon

It's a very simple mod to do, but it is very effective. It basically moves your catalog .html pages into your root directory i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html instead of http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog/index.html.

This method is only for the shops which are installed in the web root directory. But most of the shops (or default XCart setup) is on http://www.yourdomain.com/xcart/, so the method you use will create HTML codes in http://www.yourdomain.com/xcart/. You can only use as http://www.yourdomain.com/xcart/index.html

It makes your site much more likely to be spidered by search engines, and increases page rankings by moving them a step closer to root.

You are absulutely right! But only when the HTML codes are in the Web Root directory.