SEO Urls

[andy99carroll]

Has anyone got a recommendation for resolving a URL issue? I have been working hard on customising a site to a fairly specific look and style for pretty much all pages. I have agreed with early suggestions to use Able Commerce as I like the SEO facilities that are built into the system such as the clean url with direct context to the page. I have also made modification to allow meta title to be added manually and override any automatic generated tag if needed. All in all I feel SEO can be fine tuned and is not an issue.

The SEO consultant has now handed me a request to be able to fully control the url for each page. So instead of "mysite.com/My-Category-Name.aspx" we might use "mysite.com/Keyword1/Keyword2/Keyword3.aspx".

As I see it here are my options:

1. Creating a real directory structure to hold scripts?
EG ~/Keyword1/Keyword2/Category.aspx
Unless I'm wrong, I don't think we can add directories in Able Commerce for our scripts, instead all the scripts are stored in the root.

2. Use catalogue node parents to include in the navigation?
I have been pondering if I could use the catalogue tree and incorporate the parents as sudo directories in the path then perhaps using a rewrite to eliminate directories. However we are limited to using the node names instead of perhaps an extended version.

3. Add a seperate field for path in the category or catalogue node to override the auto generated one. Use rewrite to resolve back to the root scripts.

4. Hire a hit man

Any thoughts or direction would be appreciated.