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[Slow-but-steady]

I'm building my store and mostly adding product now. I have a live existing site on another cart/host system and that will be disabled once this one gets up and running. Same URL.

Here's a looming issue. I knew that I could create static pages in X-cart. I have many, and I mean a lot of info type HTML pages in my present live site that have very good search engine rankings, many top five. I wanted to cut and paste the text to each new page and call it the same, such as www.mysite.com/specificinfo.html. Now I find out from help desk that the embedded static page titles are auto-generated. Rats!

Is there any way around this? Can the static page root version be named? Where do these go by the way? I made one as an experiment and it's invisable to me.

[carpeperdiem]

Now I find out from help desk that the embedded static page titles are auto-generated.

Yes and no... yes, they are made by the cart, but you can name them anything you want... AND if you use a mod such as:

http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/cdseo-links-for-static-embedded-pages.html

You then can have pseudo static naming, but use the static embedded pages. For example, my help files are named:

http://www.domain.com/help/filename.html
http://www.domain.com/help/filename2.html
http://www.domain.com/help/filename3.html

etc.

BTW, your static embedded pages are probably in:

/skin1/pages/US/page-title.html

If your SE ranking is strong, you probably will want to use 301 redirects once your new site goes live (from the old path to the new one). You can even get creative using mod_rewrite, and have an entire group of files automatically 301'd to your "new" site... use some kind of grep to trap for the file name and redirect to the appropriate new path...

You following? Check out the CDSEO mods from WebsiteCM.. they may be what you're looking for.