A recent contribution to the posts at the Affiliate Developer Forum is a small code hack which will enable Accessories and Related Items product links in the Product Page display to be converted to SEO Friendly URLs. [? What are SEO Friendly URLS]
For example, an accessory product link for a Canon Powershot SD30 5MP Digital Elph Camera, with the product URL below :
index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00006HQ4M
will now be displayed as,
an url which is now much more recognizable by bots and searh engines.
Dr. Byte, the contributing member of the forum, has consented to our request to reprint the hack here.
To effect the changes, open up the script/productpage.php with your favorite text editor. Locate the area of the code below :
and replace it, in whole, with this update :
Upload the updated script/productpage.php to your server, check out a product, and you'll find that all the Accessories and Related Items product links are now SEO Friendly URLs as well.