As a practical example, on one of our "Buyer's Guide Page", we have 9 links to categories which required 9 declareAttributes: <%=declareAttribute('sitecategory','57','storeURL')%> <%=declareAttribute('sitecategory','43','storeURL')%> <%=declareAttribute('sitecategory','40','storeURL')%>…

D.J., I have not created a case for this but will be happy to. I am wondering if the behavior describe below is intended. We cross link between categories and information pages, categories to categories, etc. For example, from a "Widgets" information item page, we will have a link to the "Blue Widgets" category. On the…

Ok, now I am thinking things are getting inconsistant. In the same info page, the following does not require a declareAttribute <%=getAttribute('infoitem','9','storeURL')%> But this does require a declareAttribute: <%=getAttribute('infoitem','6','storeURL')%> Moral to the store, use declareAttribute whether you need it or…

SuiteCommerce implemented their Google Analytics for NetSuite product for our company. The project was completed on July 31 2008. We are extremely pleased to be able to use Google Analytics again. We us custom URL tags for all paid marketing sources such as PPC, comparision shopping, banner ads, etc. We are able to…

Although you can hack the code to add the __utmlinker on every instance that takes you to checkout.netsuite.com Is the "hack" you are working on related to this solution "How do I use Google Analytics to track a 3rd-party shopping cart?": http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=26915 If not, would you…

It would appear that if the images are stored in any sub folders (even within the main images section) the option is no longer available. Move the image back into the main image folder and the option reappears. That would seem to be a challenge. With multiple web stored being managed out of one image folder, we need to…

Pz, Not sure if this is the best way but in ns2007, you can set a default category for orders coming from a specific web store. You can then write java script to set the department and/or location based on the category.

Great question. In Robots.txt, you would use: #Block Googlebot-Image User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /

Paul, Just courious, have you tested using the system url? http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl?c=999999 Where 999999 is your customer number? Maybe the PPC tracker wants that. I agree it would not be an acceptable long term solution but worth a try.

Is their a SEO advantage to having multiple specific sites versus one more comprehensive site? If you publish two web sites which use the same item name, description, URL, page title etc, your SEO ranking will probably take a huge hit. Google in particular would consider this duplicate content. I have seen companies…

The pricing we have seen prevents us from following our entrepreneur spirit with another NetSuite store. We will have to look to a low cost provider, build the web store there and then consider moving the web store to NetSuite when we get to a certain level. It is hard to say what NetSuites target market is for the…

Search engines should never be seeing sessionid's in the URL, that would be a bug. D.J. - Would you know how NetSuite is testing for search engines? Is it being done based on agent name, based upon IP address or some other nifty way?

Paul - is this still an issue? Have you thought about doing a 301 redirect from http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/ to http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes I believe this would tell the search engines that your home page is really http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes. Right now your site is showing about 3000 pages…

Create a text field just for the product feeds. It will pay off in the long run, particularly if you start pushing to shopping.com, pricegrabber.com, etc.

Has anyone used the NS keyword campaign module to track results from product feeds? What were the results? Were the results accurate and what is a maintenance nightmare?

Andy, This is an old post but in case the difference has not been explained. www.yourURL.com?partner=xxx or www.yourURL.com&partner=xxx ... partner=xxx above is considered a parameter to www.yourURL.com. In general, the first parameter will use a ? and any parameters after that would use & For example:…

Just got back around to studying this to keep Google and his buddies out of checkout and my account. This is what I did, please anyone -- make critical comments. 1) The on page technique Create a tag called META_NOINDEX_NOFOLLOW with the default value being empty. On Checkout, My Account and Shopping Cart tabs substitute…

NetSuite stores already try to discourage spidering of checkout, customer center and cart pages, by leaving out links to those pages when spidered. D.J., This is an old thread but applicable. When you say "...by leaving out links to those pages...", does this mean that when NLREGISTRATIONURL, NLLOGINURL, etc are called…

We could alleviate this problem by adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> to the cart and checkout pages. This is support case 594436. NLCARTURL returns www.mysite.com/s.nl... So the following works: Disallow: /s.nl But the following URL's: http://shopping.netsuite.com/c.999999…

NetSuite should add the <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> tag to the cart and chackout pages for all sites. This should have been done with the change mentioned in post 6 was made. Please be sure your case requests that specific request. NetSuite support case 594436, which at time of this post is in Escalated…

So for the cart, I think this would be the syntax: <a href="<NLCHECKOUTURL>"> rel="nofollow" <img src="/site/header/ct-but-checkout.jpg"/></a>

Are 301 redirects for URLs involving s.nl, ? etc.. available now? David, I spoke with support today. Issue 125345 discusses 301 redirects for parameters. Support says that there is activity on the issue but looking at the status of "Pending Development Assignment" I am not confident a fix is coming soon.

ebeing, Until August 2006, we ran three ecommerce sites on a highly customized version of osCommerce / CRELoaded. The backend "NetSuite" was a home grown MS-SQL database. Our customizations were focused on checkout, shipping, SEO and payment methods. In NetSuite, we have lost functionality in checkout and shipping. SEO and…

charge for multi-store I am about 90% confident that there will be a per store charge. From a business standpoint, why wouldn't they charge per store? NetSuite's support costs will go up on a per store basis and Netsuites customer's (you and I) revenue will go up on a per store basis. Why shouldn't NetSuites revenue go up…

If you are in version 2007.0, you now have control over doctype. Under Set up Web Site > Setup tab, under Search Engine Optimization, there is a new Document Type field. Put your DOCTYPE tag in there and it will appear on every page of your Web store. Thank you! Major step forward toward WAI...

Theory discussion: Preface: EVERY NetSuite site will be DIFFERENT. My goal is to get out of quirks mode into standards mode using any URI based doctype. At a very high level, would anyone have discussion points on which would be easier to get to. My guess based on D.J.'s feedback is option 1 below. Would anyone have an…

Mike, 200 to 500+ milliseconds is a very long time to wait for http traffic. You could test this by saving a NetSuite page to a local site in the UK. That page would then be static. Load the page from a web server in the UK. I believe you will see that it will load quickly. A more exact test would be to use Ethereal…

Mike, You probably know this -- as a point of clarification, because this confused me for a long time. HTTP is not HTML. Think of HTTP requests like this: You call someone on the phone, how long does it take for them to answer and for you to hear "Hello". 200 to 500+ milliseconds is a very long time to wait for http…

Mike M - I feel your astonishment that you cannot define the Doctype. The lack of definition of Doctype will not keep you from achieving a page one rank in Google, etc. The doctype issue is the tip of the iceberg. Even if NS allows the doctype, you still have the issue that many of the techniques NS uses to build pages…

Anyone found this feature in v2007? I looked in our beta and could not find a place to set the doctype for the webstore. Not there yet. Issue 91381 - Webstore> ability to have all pages generate with the DOCTYPE tag Release target is Sept 2007 SLT