Another way (but not the best) is to not have duplicates. We have some repeat item categories and we choose ONE of them to be the "main one". Then, at the second location where we want that item category, we put a new category with the same name ...but the new category has a redirect in the HTML category description. So,…

Also I am informed from another source that other platforms have automatic 301 redirects. If you change the Item/Catagory URL at all, then a 301 Redirct is automatically created. Now that would be a really nice Enhancement. I agree. Do you have an enhancement number?

My other idea was to just leave all of the duplicate items (except for one) out of the google site-map. Would that work? We use "/tab/category/item-name" and have a few duplicate items and I really don't want to mess with loosing page rankings unless I know the benefits are worth it and and that there are no easier…

The only way I can see to change how the images would work is to host the images on a non-NetSuite server. OR... get NS to change things so we get the desired result. That would be the simplest solution and best for everyone. Tom

Is there a easy way to have NS change the homepage daily? I could design seven pages (one for each day of the week) and have NetSuite rotate them. Maybe they would be similar, but would have a different daily special. Our site has a HackerSafe seal that has the current date and says it was checked on that date. Does that…

I would prefer auto redirects with a manual override for those that want that level of control. T

The problem of double meta-tags is tracked by issue 125926. Please file a case with NetSuite support and request to have your case attached to this issue. What good are all the bells and whistles and "one system" features of NS ...without enough traffic/customers ...because of broken SEO features that we have to lobby to…

In a test account, our NS rep went to "set up > web site > set-up website" and changed "Descriptive URLs" from "/tab_name/category/item_name" to "/item_name" and then saved the change. Then we went to an item that was previously at http://webstore.com/tab/catagory/item and didn't redirect to http://webstore.com/item and it…

Other than the "duplicates with exact copy page content except for the tab_category URL component", was there any other reason to not display the category in the URLs? Because the v2007.1 release notes say that this was included in the release... Web Presence - 127744 Web Store > SEO > Spiders should not be allowed to…

A package that is as expensive as Netsuite is and that claims to be as devoted to ecommerce as Netsuite does SIMPLY CANNOT IGNORE BASIC FUNCTIONALITY. Another example is the ability to see a report of what terms people searched for when using the in-site web-store product search tool. That report is FREE at yahoo-store and…

Julian & Tom, The following is not an optimal solution but it might work for you. Both Google and Yahoo support CSV formats for Sitemap. CSV is not optimal because you cannot specify priority, update interval or last edit date. Priority is the only one important to me and that is simply a "suggested" flag in the event of a…

I learned something today that was messing up our NetSuite SEO. At "Setup > Web Site Setup" .... then the area marked "Search Engine Optimization" in the "set-up tab" ...it has an area that says "meta tag HTML". We mistakenly used that area. That area is not to be used IMHO. We entered: <meta name="description"…

I am happy (on the basis that I seem to have no option) to buy, beg, borrow or steal a third party product to do this. Can anyone recommend a product that is capable of dealing with Netsuite's idiosyncracies? We need to keep pushing for automated sitemaps (like Yahoo store has). NS saves us some time in SOME areas ....but…

OK, I'll go first. Yahoo Store. Averaged 5,400 page views per day (in 2004). Was spending about $1,200/month in PPC. NetSuite Store. Averaged 3,300 page views per day in recent Google analytics report. We are spending about $2,500/month in PPC. -Tom PS: I don't rule out external factors like new competition and/or the…

Where are you uploading the sitemap into NS? Upload it into whatever directory (in the file cabinet) you have specified for your hosting root. Tom

On point TWO, I believe that NS only creates the descriptive item names once (either when you create a new item or when you run the utility to convert your non-descriptive names to descriptive names). NS really needs to concentrate on SEO. We did MUCH better in our organic listing results at our YAHOO STORE and we had the…

I figured it out. The data flowed from NS and into our product feeds. NetSuite doesn't shorten the "description" feed field when exporting a feeds. In NS you can make the descriptions 4 or 5 hundred characters long...but not in the feeds. We open them in Excel and the description field is shown as ########## because it is…

WE are still nowhere on Google and miles behind our competitors. Welcome to NetSuite. We use CoffeCup's sitmapper. http://www.coffeecup.com/google-sitemapper/ you have to know some arcane knowledge about including ".nl" files and filtering page that end in "empty" (or something like that). I'm not at work right now, so I…

It happened again TODAY and this time it was in "Shopping.com".

Did you update your sitemap to match your new descriptive URLs? Unlike most budget ecommerce programs, in NS you will need to manually generate a sitemap using 3rd party software and then manually upload the Google sitemap into NS. T

Does anyone know if ourdomain.com/catalog/magic-tricks/children-magic-tricks will perform better or worse than ourdomain.com/children-magic-tricks in other words, should we not have chose to show tab/category's in the URLs? One problem with tab/category's in the URL is that you are forced into changing the URL every time…

Also Kent, YOUR web page http://www.novatech-usa.com/Products/Thermistor-YSI-400-Probes/WD-93824-12 also has an identical copy at... http://www.novatech-usa.com/WD-93824-12 This is from a different post that I put in another thread.... I just spidered our site and we had sever HUNDRED URLs with jsessionid garbage on the…

You can edit the Product Feed to send either image. Just edit the search and choose either the Image URL or the Thumbnail URL. I meant the ability to specify on a item by item basis. For us, about 80% of our items have a useable "main image" and about 20% of them would need to use their thumbnail image. Not a big deal…

I get a bunch with ";jsessionid=..." in our site's URLs when I try to spider our site when attempting to make our Google sitemap. I use Mac, so I am using "Google Sitemap Automator" by "RAGE Software". Sure would be easier if NS's system would just automatically make these. -Tom

I don't know Baruch, we manage 4 different feeds and we were forced to manage them outside of NS. We added a LOT of missing fields like "condition", brand, expiration date, product type, "tax region" etc. and we did a LOT of HTML "<b></B>" tag removal. The only way the NS version would be useful is if we can click "export"…

The product feeds in NS are very poor. They don't strip out the HTML like the "<b>" and "</b>" from product descriptions. They don't send the feeds directly to those sites (many of them offer ftp uploads). They don't let you pick which picture to include in the feed (thumbnail -vs- main picture). They don't have all of the…

The cheap e-commerce package CityMax, even has Google Sitemaps. Why does NS have to be the last e-commerce provider to add automated Google Sitemaps? NS, could you just add something like this program to your servers... http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html

Does Netsuite have a roadmap for addressing these issues? Thanks Bill Don't hold your breath. They don't appear to have any urgency to fix the problems and shortcomings in this area. They give it the old "add your name to the issue/enhancement" line. Not only are they WAY behind the cheaper e-commerce packages (no…

No, our software does NOT allow us to enter an "agent name". Tom PS: Please add automated Google sitemaps

Can anyone recommend a company that helps web merchants increase their "natural listing" rankings in Google? I do a lot (like google sitemaps and meta tags), but I don't have time to work on it anymore and we still have a LOT of room for improvement. -Tom