Has there been a howto or a FAQ posted about how to make the SEO Url's work properly?
I have about 3500 products in the Smith Cart, and I have iFinity installed, and each product has the SEOURL filled in.  That works fine...
But how to make Google crawl the whole store?  Do I have to generate another sitemap?  Will the DNN Sitemap generation crawl the whole store?
Bottom line is, I want google to "see" that I have 3500+ pages on my site, by indexing every product, the description for the product, etc.

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

--Greg

Greg,

The built in DNN Site Map module will NOT index the product or category pages generated by SmithCart. Dave is right that google will crawl your site and products without you submitting an xml sitemap to Google.

I tried a couple free sitemap generator tools, but the sitemap they generated was a mess of random urls. I then made a couple posts on the google webmasters forums, and I found this really great Sitemap creation tool called Inspyder Sitemap Creator.

After tweaking it for a hour or two, I have created a full sitemap of my site, including product and category pages, for over 4k products. Hope this helps!

Greg, if you don't mid me asking.

You mentioned that you have ifinity installed on your cart.

Did you create a custom module to filter out the /productID/ portions of your url's?

I know by default ifinity will remove the tabid portion, but I was wondering if you took it too the next step. I am not a programmer, but getting the custom smithcart module for ifinity would make the 100 dollars spent on the module worth every penny.

Make sure the "Process links in javascript" checkbox is checked. I believe the prev and next links to all the items in your store are coded in JS by Smith.

If you are not getting any of the dynamic content indexed, check the log tab on the software. It will tell you why it's not adding those pages to your index.

SOLVED IT!
The problem:
Treeview uses inter-module communications and postbacks, making it very difficult for bots to crawl the products.

Solution:
o I created another page, didn't list it in the menu.
o Used a free module called SQLGridSelectedView (allows you to display/edit tables)
o Set it up with the following query:
SELECT 
'<a href="https://www.MySiteName.com/Product_Details/ProductID/' + CAST(ProductID AS VarChar) + '/' + SEOUrl + '.aspx">' + ModelName + '</a>' AS LinkURL FROM Smith_Products 
o Created an "invisible" (white on white) html link <a href="/Home/ProductLinks.aspx">.</ >

... so, now when the bot comes around, it hits that hidden link, gets a list of all the products in the cart, and crawls all my product pages.

(patting myself on the back a little on this one)

--Greg