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Going From OSCommerce to Zen - Should I Use 301 Redirects?

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by keithjameslock, Jan 19, 2010.

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    I imported my OSCommerce contents into Zen Cart onto a different domain. I want all traffic going to my old store to flow to my new store... and I want to maintain page rank and positions in the search engines, etc..

    I assume that I use a 301 redirect? Is there an easy way to do this, rather than having to go to each individual product? Is it even worth the effort?

    Thanks in advance,
    Keith
     
    keithjameslock, Jan 19, 2010 IP
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    jestep Prominent Member

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    Use a 301, but you're not going to get a 100% transfer of rankings and traffic. All type in traffic will obviously go.

    In my experience best case, you'll lose a little ranking perminantly, and all page rank for several months. If the new domain is actually newly registered, you could lose a lot of ranking and not get it back for a long time. I've seen a redirected site get whacked in google for over a year, and the old domain had thousands of links coming into it.

    Ideally you must redirect every old page to the corresponding new page. Anything else will definitely result in major lost rankings.
     
    jestep, Jan 19, 2010 IP
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    manofwar Active Member

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    Why don't you keep the old domain and just apache rewrite the urls to match OSC urls in zen.
     
    manofwar, Jan 20, 2010 IP
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    Did you people ever heard of Magento or you just don't like it and still prefer Zen?
     
    KonstantinDK, Jan 21, 2010 IP
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    jestep Prominent Member

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    I like magento better than either of the others because the potential to customize it is virtually unlimited. It's also based on a much more recent standard of php coding. It is significantly more complex to modify as you must know the Zend framework, but it's much more flexible if you do know Zend.

    If you just need a cart out of the box, Magento's probably going to be slower.
     
    jestep, Jan 21, 2010 IP
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    manofwar Active Member

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    Zen is a fairly dead project now, not that many updates. OSC is going strong. Mag is a bit on the hard side for the newbs.
     
    manofwar, Jan 21, 2010 IP
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    Well, Im not an expert, but according to demos and examples of sites I saw magento looks sooo much better and modern. And I like good appearances. It's looks more proffesional.
     
    KonstantinDK, Jan 21, 2010 IP
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    301 redirect is permanent redirect and help you to contain page rank, good from SEO point of View
     
    fleece-vest, Jan 22, 2010 IP
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    Mag threw up a few nice templates and people are head over heels, it's just another sc, nothing amazing. :eek:
     
    manofwar, Jan 23, 2010 IP