Search Engine Optimization with zed E-Commerce 7.4 – URL Rewriting, XML Sitemap Creator, META Tags To create your XML Sitemap, go to the SEO tab and check all the items you wish to include in your XML sitemap such as static pages, featured products, coupon pages, catalog of products ..etc. After you choose the items you wish included to your XML Sitemap, then save the file and you will get options to submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo and Windows Live. Google Webmaster Central is a powerful and unique service provided free to web content publishers. To sign up go to: www.google.com Once you have access, add your website to the list of sites to manage. This can be done in a few different ways, and in this example we’ll place a file in the root of the website for verification. Google Analytics Integration

In zed E-Commerce 7.4 we introduce new features to aid in search engine optimization. While these features cannot guarantee higher rankings in themselves, they allow our customers to target qualified leads and new customers in ways not possible with previous versions. 1. URL Rewrite for categories, items, and static pages allows for shortened and more readable URL’s. 2. Customizable META description tags separate from item descriptions. 3. META keyword and description tags for categories 4. XML Sitemap creator fully compatible with Google Webmaster, Bing Web Master and Yahoo site submit. 5. Automatic detection of search engine crawlers triggering the pages of a category list to use hyperlinks for page links instead of JavaScript. 6. Compression of the ASP.Net viewstate resulting in smaller overall page sizes and faster load times. 7. Google Analytics integration with default theme 8. Default robots.txt file for search engine crawler guidance XML Sitemap Creator is included with zed E-Commerce 7.4