Magento

Hi folks,

our first Magento Project was the hardest and concurrently the coolest Web Project we ever made. We are TYPO3 Enthusiasts from Germany and after some hundreds of Web Projects without, we decided to do this on Magento. A good decision, because from now on we will never use another eCommerce Plattform any more.

For http://www.eswe.de we were forced to do some radical changes in Magento (hey, don’t hit me ... not in the Core of course):

- Completely integrating Magento and TYPO3, using Typogento (thanks to Flagbit, Karlsruhe for the good work!)
- Changing Typogentos one-page-behaviour to get each product on an own TYPO3 page (Magento Routing and Realurl pimped)
- Convincing the list view to be a product-overview, generating simple products with tear prices in an Ajax-tabbed Table
- Making the product list tables dynamically rendering different contents and attributes (puuh, I cannot believe ... it works)
- Make Product-Videos, PDF-Downloads and some other stuff manageable in Magento Admin

Needless to say that this took some more hours (and nights) as planned, but we are proud of our first Magento-Store and appreciate your Feedback as we want to improve this shop particularly regarding usability, performance and SEO.

Thanks to Varien, Flagbit and the Magento Community!
Alf Drollinger
DCN GmbH

Now in short for germans: Schaut mal rein Leute, kauft Luftpolsterfolie und lasst es knallen. Macht süchtig

Hello,

You have 5 level-structure It’s rather deep structure. Make sure you created a good sitemap and linked your inner pages correctly.
As for the site, I like your customization of custom options, downloads etc at the product page.

Hi MageWorks,

thanks for your reply. The depth of our product-navigation was a very hot issue. We actual wanted to keep the “3-click-rule” ... it became different

And ... yes, you’re right. Of course we activated Google Sitemap but forgot to link a simple sitemap from the Startpage ... now it’s done (in the menu Kontakt).

Thanks for the hint,
Alf

I also suggest to setup redirects from the URLs like
http://www.eswe.de/home.html
to
http://www.eswe.de/

as these are the same pages and accessible via different URLs => duplicate content issue for Google.

Once again ... you’re right ... unfortunatly we’re unable to redirect.

On index.html the little little man with the parcel is running for life, on home.html the mini-cart and product-search took place. We hopefully fixed this issue with the google-sitemap. If not, maybe the courier must go for an early retire

Thanks for the hint and your accurate review

Good Night (it is 11pm in Germany
Alf

Once again ... you’re right ... unfortunatly we’re unable to redirect.

On index.html the little little man with the parcel is running for life, on home.html the mini-cart and product-search took place. We hopefully fixed this issue with the google-sitemap. If not, maybe the courier must go for an early retire

Thanks for the hint and your accurate review.

Good Night (it is 11pm in Germany
Alf

Once again, you’re right ... unfortunatly we’re unable to redirect.

On index.html the little little man with the parcel is running for life, on home.html the mini-cart and product-search took place. We hopefully fixed this issue with the google-sitemap. If not, maybe the courier must go for an early retire

Thanks for the hint and your accurate review.

Good Night (it is 11pm in Germany
Alf

Cool ... tripple post with one click. Is it only me having problems with magentocommerce.com today?

Hello,

I hope you still follow this thread even if it was quite some time since you started it.

Great job you did, indeed.
What impresses me most is that you got one of my biggest problems working correctly:
Own page for each product / category which also means that the, imho, biggest bad point from typogento, that it does not take the Metas and Title from the Magento Product Configuration to TYPO3 has been solved.

Could you give any information on how this was achieved since I have no idea how to solve this in my own shop.

Thank you very much!

Torsten

Hi Torsten,

I am sorry for the late faschingsferienbedingte (I don’t know in English) answer and for this: I think our solution will not fit your needs.

We did a TYPO3-Extension and some patches in magento (local of course) to get what we have now: the single pages are all made with TYPO3 including Title, Metas and so on, not generated by Magento products. We did this to mix TYPO3 and Magento content on all product-pages and cat-views. Now we are able to SEO the shop, but for each product and view a (hand-crafted) TYPO3-page with Contents, Metas and Title must be created. Not to forget: each Magento Product needs an attribute “T3-URL”, to make Links from cart, searchresults and cross sales working again.

If you think our solution might work for you, please send me an eMail to and I’ll send you the stuff (T3-Ext., some Mage-PHPs and maybe some hints

Nice Weekend,
Alf

Hello Alf,

thanks for your reply!

I think it will really not fit for my needs, since my shop will have more than 3000 articles in the end and for several dozens will get sold out or come back in every single day - I think this will be much to time-consuming if each prodct has to get its own T3-page.

But nevertheless thank you very much for your kind offer, to send me your files.

BTW: Because I am from Germany - and even from one of Germanys Carnival Capitals, Mainz, I of course understand what “faschingsferienbedingte” means ... maybe carnivalcausedholidays would be a good english translation

Torsten

Friends,
I need a big help. My home page is messed & punished by google with duplicate content.

I noticed that my Magento homepage can be found in two ways:
1.  mydomain-name.com it includes /index.php
2. mydomain-name.com/home

How should this one fix? Right now my home page is messed. Please…please …please help

I would like avoid /home from my home page.

Raj

I think the best way is to make rewrite rules in your .htaccess

Although there are some seo-extensions for magento to solve duplicate content and url-problems, I would pragmatically rewrite doubled pages like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule source target [L,R=301]

... where source is the unwanted home.html and target is probably index.html.

HTH,
Alf