Improve your X-Cart SEO with a simple DirectoryIndex

X-Cart by default loads a doorway page using an index.html file.  The index.html file then links to index.php, and the index.php then does a 301 redirect redirect to home.php which loads your x-cart store.  A much better setup from an x-cart SEO position, is to simply load home.php when your domain name is entered as a url.

You can accomodate this by changing your x-cart directory index to home.php.  If you are on a server that supports .htaccess, you can use this code in your .htaccess file to set your directory index:

This DirectoryIndex is even more useful when used with our x-cart seo links mod, Custom Dynamic SEO Links for X-Cart.  CDSEO for X-Cart consolidates your main page and google page rank under one url (your domain name) by changing references to home.php to point to your domain path.