I was checking out a few other ecommerce sites and found that buy.com
a) requires cookies to add products to your cart
b) doesn't deliver "required" cookies until you actually try to add a
product to your cart.
This led to my next thought that FT could be modified to act in the
following way:
a) deliver sid via cookies from the moment a customer enters the store.
b) once a customer added a product to a cart, we could turn on the SID in
the url (if needed - assuming the shopper didn't accept cookies).
These steps would ensure the search engines properly spidered the site
without the SID in the URL. Reason being - Some spiders do not accept
cookies. A SID in a URL changes the appearence of the directory structure.
Product A would look like a different web page each time the site was
spidered by a different spider from the same SE.
I realize that everyone isn't interested in making FT SE friendly. For an
online store, the argument could go both ways. But this type of setup would
increase the extensability of FT making modifications like Ron's a piece of
cake. I have always wanted to use FT as a total content solution and this
may be a step toward the answer.
Just a 2am brain fart.
Kevin
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