Thanks Sachin

So basically on sites that use ECWID for their ecommerce, only the main pages on the actual website (not the product pages that ECWID generates which is the part from the hashtag on) get indexed?

Essentially Google is NOT indexing any products because ECWID uses an existing page on a website and shows products there.

Is that correct? For example if you look at an XML sitemap for the running boards site that we used as an example you will see there are only 10 pages on it. However there are over a 1000 different types of running boards sold on the site which have their own pages populate after a #tag in the url: http://www.runningboards4less.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&view=xml&tmpl=component&id=1

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Also if anyone knows how to modify Ecwid urls so that they are "clean", please chime in...

Thank you for your response. I am not implying that it is indexing a "separate" url.  I am referring to the SEO value of a proper "clean" url for the specific page.  ECWID doesn't allow for it's users to create custom urls.

If I were creating a url for the page I listed above, I would have it something like **** .com/chevy-van NOT _.com/#!/Classic-Pro-Series-Extruded-2/p/28043025/category=6593891  _

My question regards the low or lack of any value at all using a url like the long one above and if the statement made by the ECWID rep is factual.

An ECWID rep stated in regards to an inquiry about how the ECWID url's are not customizable, that "an important thing is that it doesn't matter what these URLs look like, because search engines don't read anything after that # in URLs. " Example http://www.runningboards4less.com/general-motors#!/Classic-Pro-Series-Extruded-2/p/28043025/category=6593891

Basically all of this: #!/Classic-Pro-Series-Extruded-2/p/28043025/category=6593891

That is a snippet out of a conversation where ECWID said that dirty urls don't matter beyond a hashtag...

Is that true? I haven't found any rule that Google or other search engines (Google is really the most important) don't index, read, or place value on the part of the url after a # tag.

.com is the best by far, followed by .net and .org... I would get the .com if possible and if not, get the .net or .org... I wouldn't write them off.

You are correct in regards to the .co not helping rank for Colorado.  However .co is not for the country Columbia and made to work for everyone.  The .co extension is for company names and branding your name.  It is a global extension. .co = company

Create the page(s) in HTML and offer a downloadable PDF format.  Win/Win

I would definitely go with a blog and keep it updated. It will rank much faster (since you will have content and fresh content) compared to a landing page. "Content is King"...

Hey Jeremy,

Were you able to attain any information at the ecwid conference?