You can integrate a forum easily. I personally use vBulletin and find it is a great fit and can be easily styled to match your store. You have to install it on a subdomain but it is a simple task just like integrating a blog

Honestly, thanks a ton for the write-up and the feedback you are giving to people’s comments on this post. VERY helpful and appreciated. I had two questions I was hoping you would be able to answer:

1. Can you integrate a forum into a Shopify site? I know some forums you can embed into a site, but wasn’t sure if you have that type of access to a Shopify site.

2. Do you have to use the default Shopify checkout page (checkout.shopify.com)?

Thanks!

I want to move my existing online store to a new Multilanguage Shopping Cart. After reading Andrew Bleakley’s review, I have to make a dissisions between the following shopping cart. New to SEO, I will like to have your impressions on there SEO Features and HELP me select the BEST SEO frendly shopping cart.

corecommerce:

Search Engine Friendly
• Entire store is search engine optimized
• Dynamically generates static html pages with clean URL’s (no numbers and special characters inside the URL’s) for products, categories and custom content pages (ie about us, etc.)
• Auto Generated Meta Tags for your store to create web site page rankings that matter!
• Built in Canonical URL’s
• Header tags usage for your product names
• Auto-build of the Google XML Sitemap
• Meta tags for all products, categories and content pages
• Add your own custom meta tags from your store
• You determine the page titles
• You can add custom content for the category pages
• Use of alt and title tags for images
• Use of bread crumb trails
• Customer SEO page slugs (naming) for products and categories

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americommerce:

Have a look at there page, the list is to long.

http://www.americommerce.com/ecommerce-seo.html

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asho

Web Optimisation – SEO
Fully Search Engine Optimised (SEO) structure
Optimised and updated by industry leading SEO experts
Source code optimised for search engines
Page based META management. Titles, descriptions and keywords
Link popularity program between Ashop Commerce customers
Always up to date with new search engine algorithms
Spider friendly URLs
301 Redirect and 302 Redirect support for any page
Free SEO tips & tools
Auto HTML and CSS page generation
Google, Yahoo and Bing verification meta inclusion
Inbuilt automatic XML site map generation (Google, Yahoo, Bing)
Correct use of robots.txt file
Correct use of NOFOLLOW attribute
Auto set up with correct hierarchy for H tags
Auto creation of alt text on menu text links and images
Tableless design structure

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Pinnaclecart

Cutting-edge search engine optimization
Flat URL generation (www.yoursite.com/product/product-name.htm)
Ability to create your own URL structure (www.yoursite.com/create-your-own-url.html)
Manage all URL’s at the category, product and page level.
If you’re moving from a different application, you can change the URL’s to match the old URL’s.
Meta keyword, title and description for each product page
Meta keyword, title and description for each category page
Meta keyword and description for home page and all pages created via the control panel
Upload / create robot.txt file
Ability to generate meta tags based on product descriptions
Ability to modify HTML or CSS via browser
Automatically generated site map
Generates XML site map for Google Base
Valid WC3 template design
Image ALT tags
Design generates very lightweight, 100% HTML page without CSS or PHP coding
Creates “breadcrumb” navigation
Search-engine-friendly architecture
Ability to upload customized HTML pages to assist in

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How would you rate those carts structure in a SEO point of view?

My existing store, http://www.filtrationmontreal.com/ (OsCommerce) need SEO improvement and moving it to a SEO Frendly Shopping Cart is the best thing I can do to increase sales and conversions.

Thank you for your support, help and precious time.

BigBlaze

As I said it is easy to alleviate – use very different templates with different menu’s and navigation labels and add a unique product description for each store using the tags provided

About the multi store option, is Americommerce the only one with this option?
Also, we are selling the same product over 2 online stores,
http://www.filtrationmontreal.com/
http://www.furnacefilterscanada.com/
If I move the 2 domains to Americommerce, I don’t see how I will have a duplicate content SEO issue. What do you thing?

Merci,

Jean

Abantecart was discounted because it is a free “Expandable shopping cart application with fast growing number of extensions.” but the Extensions directory on the website is empty – not surprising really the cart was only released on the 11/11/11 – I will add it to a review on new shopping carts but it doesn’t come close to qualifying for a top 5 of 2012 list – maybe 2013 if there is significant uptake

CS-Cart, of which I am a massive fan, is isn’t on the list because it is out of reach for most non-technical people. The site is targeted at developers and consultants and is a little tricky for lay people to negotiate which means it is a higher support burdon. The pricing structure is also problematic mixing a free version in with paid versions means I spend too much time explaining why someone should pay for the software rather than if the software is a good fit in the first place. It’s great that there is the community version but once a vendor (similar to Magento) releases a free version the selection process becomes more about money than suitability.

Can I do a Recommandation? When doing a review, post the date.
About the this Corecommerce review, is it 2 years ago?
I can’t decide between Corecommerce and Americommerce, do you have any comparison?
Thank you,

Jean Nichols

Abantecart
CS-cart