In their defense, only the September 2010 Issue is not accurate -
We consider ourselves Ecommerce veterans and we typically read Website Magazine cover to cover.
Last night I passed around the Top 50 Ecommerce review (page 16) and was sorely disappointed in how the information was gathered and ranked based on the site traffic and basically no other metrics?
We have reviewed, Installed, and hosted several shopping carts and one of the grandaddy of problematic shopping carts, X-Cart, made by a Russian group is ranked 14? OSCommerce ranked 6, has been a derivative of X-Cart. X-Cart and similar ones should not even be on the list… but it is… Open source, ok, yeah I get it.
In short and I am certain that the Website Mag guys know that Ecommerce carts should be ranked based on Security, Reliability, Installation, SEO, Usability, Features, customers needs, etc.
Note: I think very highly of Website Magazine and it’s writers and I hope they will be more cautious next time.
Discussions, Shopping Carts
Pinnacle over ShopSite?
One Sentence – Dynamic database vs Static Database pages is the KEY answer. Pinnacle is NOT as SEO friendly as ShopSite .
Compare Links to one site for Pinnacle address does not have understandable category and product links -
Pinnacle shopping cart – http://www.obxtradingroup.com/index.php?p=catalog&parent=9&pg=1
ShopSite cart – http://www.ezupdirect.com/ezup-instant-shelters/exp2vp.php (all words can be easily crawled)
We just finished writing about ShopSite vs others – http://yourhost.com/netspeak/2010/07/shopsite-stil-holding-its-own-sp2-new-features/
I did some research on the web about Pinnacle Cart and came up with some favorable reviews, but we are always cautious with carts as time and time again we have seen some real troubles in one way or another.
One of the main reasons we have stuck with ShopSite is security and it being SEO friendly. ShopSite does not break and its support system is great.
We have been working with ShopSite as a partner since 1997.
Maybe someone will comment on it.
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Ecommerce, Shopping Carts
Pinnacle Cart, Reviews, SEO, Shopping Carts
