Internal Link Question

[traytray]

I created an E-Z page and did not enter an Internal Link. I guess it automatically created this link:

http://designerperfumesnob.authsafe....ue-ezp-16.html

Is there any reason I should be changing that and if so, what should I change it to?

Thanks!

[gjh42]

Actual ez-pages never use "internal links", which are a method of generating links in ez-page menus to non-ez-page locations in your site. Your URL rewriter has auto-generated the URL you show, presumably based on the ez-page title plus its id. If your rewriter allows you to specify a custom URL for a page, you can change it using whatever method your mod provides.

[traytray]

Great, thank you.

[traytray]

Got another internal link question so thought I'd just add it to this thread I started.

This is the url of the page after the name of the website:

5th-avenue-gift-set-edp-spray-25-oz-body-lotion-33-oz-hydrating-body-cream-cleanser-33-oz-parfum-12-oz-by-elizabeth-arden-for-women-p-1979.html?cPath=656_726

If I wanted to make an internal link of this page do I need to use the entire thing?

Thanks!

[DrByte]

This is the url of the page after the name of the website:

5th-avenue-gift-set-edp-spray-25-oz-body-lotion-33-oz-hydrating-body-cream-cleanser-33-oz-parfum-12-oz-by-elizabeth-arden-for-women-p-1979.html?cPath=656_726

If I wanted to make an internal link of this page do I need to use the entire thing?

Looks like your "make it human friendly by rewriting the URL" isn't doing you any favors ... and is actually making the issue much worse. Honestly, no human is ever going to type that URL in, let alone make much sense of half of its content. Why are you rewriting URLs exactly?

Why not just use the original URL, which would be less than half the length! ... index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=656_726&products_id=1979

[traytray]

Looks like your "make it human friendly by rewriting the URL" isn't doing you any favors ... and is actually making the issue much worse. Honestly, no human is ever going to type that URL in, let alone make much sense of half of its content. Why are you rewriting URLs exactly?

Why not just use the original URL, which would be less than half the length! ... index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=656_726&products_id=1979

The URL rewrite is something my host set up. I knew nothing about it for the longest time, until someone on this forum once asked about the html at the end of my url.

If I chose to, I could just flip it off at this time?

[DrByte]

You could.
Before you do that, be sure to study the impact it may have on search engines. Granted, if you're not dependent on search engines for traffic, it won't matter. Or if your rankings are already weak then it might not matter since this might boost them over time anyway.

[lhungil]

The URL rewrite is something my host set up. I knew nothing about it for the longest time, until someone on this forum once asked about the html at the end of my url.

If I chose to, I could just flip it off at this time?

Such long URLs are not very pretty (and may look spammy to SEs)...

Most likely you can turn off the URL module... You may want to do some reading on SEO (in particular canonical links and 301 redirects) and then see how your site reacts to disabling the installed URL module (you may need to do some things to retain SE "link juice")...

Or you could use shorter titles for your products (and thus shorter and less spammy h1 tags and URLs)... Or if supported by the URL module you could enable it to filter based upon the number of words in the title... Or if supported by the URL module you could change the URL to something more appropriate...

SE = Search Engine

[fairestcape]

We took on a site about 6 weeks ago that was using URL re-write, and we removed it completely. We then did a lot of work on the site content, optimising everything for the SE's, and we also embedded Rich Snippets code into the Product Info template.

We set up all the Google tools as well, and installed sitemaps XML, then did a major clean up of everything (including image filesize optimisation) and submitted the sitemaps to the SE's about two weeks ago.

The site is now ranking strongly on most desired keywords (pages 2 and 3) and we feel it won't be long (with a few more tweaks) to get it onto page 1 of Google.

URL re-write is completely unnecessary and potentially harmful to SEO. We never, never, never use it. Google LOVES native zencart URL's...

There is no need to EVER install this url rewrite nonsense. Spend your time studying the principles of the SEMANTIC WEB, and look at ways to embed microdata tags into your templates. (SEE: http://purl.org/goodrelations and http://schema.org).

[traytray]

I'd like to thank everyone for their input. I'm going to think about all of this and make a decision.