Shop software with mod rewrite?

Does anyone know good shop software? Oscommerce is pretty good but there is no mod rewrite for url's and the html code is bad.

What is the best commercial software?

Oscommerce, does have a free mod rewrite mod. Its called seo ulr by chemo. Here is my store, Alcohol Injection - Water Injection - Methanol Injection - Devilsown It's actually a creloaded which is a pre modded version of oscommerce. No it does not validate out of the box. Most of it is your template. Most templates out there are pretty bad.

Mine does on most pages validate html. But i do have my xhtml validate skin coming latter this week. I hope going from html to xhtml will help things out. Not sure, I am doing what ever i can to try for better placement.

I looked at alot of shoping cart software and none of them seemed to be compliant out of the box. I know oscommy V3 will be xhtml buts its still alpha.

Thanks for that information rocket, the url rewrite hack looks good. Oscommerce has a lot of potential, it could be so mutch better if payed programmers would work on it I guess.

Yea, Oscommerce 3 is going to be pretty good. I have the alpa of it running. Basicly they are taking the plain jane 2.2 making it xhtml and adding some of the most used plugins to it. So its more along the lines of creloaded but Im sure will be less buggy.

I would switch software if i can find something thats going to give me good SEO out of the box. I have 100's of hours in this store and my placement is still so so.

i like x-cart.

X-Cart Gold: The world's best shopping cart software

its not free, but there's a 30 day trial so you can screw around with it. it also has an "archive" like html version plugin.

X-Cart Gold - Generated HTML catalog

HTML catalog
(X-Cart Gold has an ability to generate static .html pages containing information about products friendly to search engines)

That looks great Brian, actually now I know what software one of my competitors is using, thanks!

The only downside is the sourcecode, still a lot of tables, font tags etc. I wonder if there is an alternative with divs/ CSS.

X-Cart also has an add-on for content rich URL's, which will re-write the cats and products.
X-Cart Mods - Dynamic Search-Engine-Friendly URLs PRO
It's only $65.00 too.

I agree that the templates stink with x-cart but it is a pretty powerful piece of software, doing anything a store administrator would need.

I thought that was included, just seen this option in the admin panel?

HTML catalog
It is known that modern search engines rank script-generated web pages lower than plain HTML pages. To improve your store's rating with search engines, you might want to create an HTML version of your product catalog.

The only problem with it is that the HTML catalog is created on demand, so after each change to your store (add new product, change a price, etc.) the catalog would have to be regenerated. The option actually creates .html files on the server opposed to rewriting the dynamic store URL's. I guess you could set it up on a cron to run daily but it is still staic files and not a rewrite.

Originally Posted by reefland

The only problem with it is that the HTML catalog is created on demand, so after each change to your store (add new product, change a price, etc.) the catalog would have to be regenerated. The option actually creates .html files on the server opposed to rewriting the dynamic store URL's. I guess you could set it up on a cron to run daily but it is still staic files and not a rewrite.

ewww. I would just go with osccomy then and use the free mod rewrite mod. Its no where near what vbseo is to vBulletin but it works.

Hm ok thanks for clearing that up reefland, a mod rewrite would be better in that case I guess.

The admin panel for osc doesn't look as good and feature rich as the one from X-cart. I'm not sure about the templates and sourcecode, if ayone can give me more insight on that , it would be appreciated.

CRE Loaded 6 - CRE Loaded Store

Its oscommy based but it has mods pre installed. So its not 100% bug free. But thats what my site works on. Only notice afew things that are buggy. You will probley like the admin pannel better with this one.

Also oscommy has an alph 3 version of there cart so you can see where its going.