X-Cart forums

[fearnothing]

I just want to throw my 10 cents worth in on this mod as well - excellent product all round, and all of a sudden my customers are finding 'something' on almost every search - a giant leap forward IMHO and great after-sales support from Bill too. Couldn't be happier.

One interesting side effect that no-one has picked up on is that the search has changed from 'POST' to 'GET' and consequently URLs are extremely SEO friendly!

For example

yoursite.com/xcart/_search.php?page=1&q=some+product

This will produce a keyword rich, and regularly updated page. I know there is still some debate about SEO and the '?' but there are a lot of results on Google that have this sort of format.

[crazyoval]

I dont understand this, please can you explain? surely if this is a dynamically created page it wont be seen by Google, you have to be there to trigger the search... Google's robot doesn't use your search function to search your site..

Happy to be proven wrong.

[fearnothing]

crazyoval - Google definitely recognises search result pages as valid pages these days ... you'll often find these on ciao.com and shopping.com results in Google - click on them and you'll find that you are taken to a search results page (often with no valid results -ha!).

The SEO gurus are still debating which urls that include a '?' get spidered correctly, so I'm not saying any of this is guaranteed.

However, the following is an example URL from our website using Smart Search on the term 'bluegrass' :

http://www.smartchoicemusic.com/store/_search.php?page=1&q=bluegrass

If you follow that link you'll see a very keyword-rich results page. If this link had been placed on an open bluegrass forum or similar relevant website, then you can guarantee that the search engines would have ranked that dynamic page pretty well.

If you compare the keyword denisty on that page to the following one, which is the 'Bluegrass' category page in our store then I think you'll see the difference:

http://www.smartchoicemusic.com/store/Bluegrass-c-45.html

Dunno - all I'm saying is that at least using Smart Search this facility is a bit of a side attraction that may or may not work in SEO terms. It has more potential that the out-of-the-box search page to draw in spiders and customers, and if nothing else could be a useful landing page for Google Ads ??

[sbkp]

I have a weird situation getting Smart Search working. I have it working on one site, and now on a new version of that domain, and on another domain (both of which are licensed), I get this problem where the first time I try a search, it works. But then Smart Search gets disabled and further searches use the standard X-Cart search system.

Little help?

[wjbrewer]

Originally Posted by sbkp

I have a weird situation getting Smart Search working. I have it working on one site, and now on a new version of that domain, and on another domain (both of which are licensed), I get this problem where the first time I try a search, it works. But then Smart Search gets disabled and further searches use the standard X-Cart search system.

Little help?

Sounds like the license key is either incorrect, or it isn't in the /admin directory. If you can send your order number, and the exact domain over to support@alteredcart.com I will make sure everything is correct.

[jagorny]

Hi... I was wondering if any progress has been made on the mod to allow selection of custom fields in the search? I'd like to be able to allow customers to get results on author and ISBN but don't want the redundancy of having custom fields and including the information in the main description fields...

[maildodge]

Hi, im also wondering if there is any update as to when the version will be available so static pages are also searched!? Thanks.

[ReadytoCover]

Does anyone know what files I need to edit in order to remove the url links from showing up in search results with this mod?

On the same token, do you know what I need to edit to remove the annoying redbox window at the top of the search results page that says:

There were no full word results, these results were generated using partial word matches.



I e-mailed alteredcart directly from their site but haven't received any responses. Thanks!

[longhorn180]

Originally Posted by ReadytoCover

Does anyone know what files I need to edit in order to remove the url links from showing up in search results with this mod?

On the same token, do you know what I need to edit to remove the annoying redbox window at the top of the search results page that says:

There were no full word results, these results were generated using partial word matches.



I e-mailed alteredcart directly from their site but haven't received any responses. Thanks!

go to skin1/modules/Smart_Search/smart_search_products.tpl and find this code below

{*** alteredCart.com Smart Search // Product URL & Date ***}
<a href="product.php?productid={$products[product].productid}">╩ {$http_location}/product.php?productid={$products[product].productid}</a>
{if $sort eq 6}
{$lng.lbl_date}: {$products[product].add_date|date_format:$config.Appearance.date_format}
{/if}
{*** Smart Search // Product URL & Date ***}

and comment out this line

<a href="product.php?productid={$products[product].productid}">╩ {$http_location}/product.php?productid={$products[product].productid}</a>

[ReadytoCover]

Thanks!

I also found how to remove the annoying redbox window at the top of the search results page that says:

There were no full word results, these results were generated using partial word matches.


In /skin1/modules/Smart_Search/smart_search.tpl

Go to around line 88 and comment out the following:

{if $partial_matches}
<p style="border: 1px solid #FF0000; padding:10px;" align="center">
{$lng.lbl_no_full_word_results}
</p>
{/if}