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How do you deal with search engines? The vast majority of stores have the the vast majority of their customers come in via search engines.

1. Showing one page to the search engine spider and another to users is a black hat SEO tactic known as bait & switch. Most search engines heavily penalizes against this. How do you deal with your customers possibly losing their search engine reputation that they've built up over the years?

2. I don't know about other people, but when I see a price, X, on the search engine result page, then get a different price, Y, in the actual store, I immediately lose trust in the store. If the merchant is willing to bait & switch me on the price, then I don't trust it not to bait & switch me on their actual product or services.