Need a SEO add on, tried all but nothing

[kobra]

But search engines doesn't prefer websites with friendly URL?

Modern Search engines do just fine with the dynamically created url's
They are not humans which is the touted reason for rewriting
An excerpt

How many times have you tried to remember the URL of a particular website, but the address had resulted in a jumbled mix of letters, numbers, forward slashes, back slashes, question marks, ampersands, percent signs, dots, dashes, and underscores? Happens a lot, I know, especially with dynamically-generated web documents.

The question should be how many of you even attempt to type a complete url??
That is what bookmarks are for

[Marco Serge]

Thanks for all the explanations, then if SEO URLs are not necessary for better search engines position, then I can avoid to try a SEO mod, I thought they were necessary for this reason.
Thanks a lot, anyway for all the useful information you shared with me

[wrickspam]

i use CEON URI Mapping and can confirm its working :)

its a pain in the ###### though as you explained you will have to create urls for all your products by hand because there is no option to do it automatic (for allready excisting products, new products get a link automaticly)

[mc12345678]

i use CEON URI Mapping and can confirm its working :)

its a pain in the ###### though as you explained you will have to create urls for all your products by hand because there is no option to do it automatic (for allready excisting products, new products get a link automaticly)

This is misinformation. One does not have to manually go through each product from the admin panel to populate the database URIs. Check my website for example, or search for CEON Mapping Manager (two different items being discussed here.)

[lhungil]

Yup, quite a bit has changed in the last few years. For example "Ultimate SEO URL" has been replaced with "Ultimate URLs" (and is very easy to install)... And CEON URIs has been updated and additional tools created to make CEON URIs easier to manage... If you are currently trying to test the latest versions of either and having difficulty, suggest posting in the respective Support Thread and providing all the relevant information and answering all of the questions asked.

Of course both of the above work best "out of box" when best practices are followed (templates all use zen_href_link, only one site per VirtualHost / web server document root, dedicated SSL certificate, Zen Cart patches kept up to date, etc).

Yes SEs are not inhibited by (or having issues accessing) URLs containing ? and & (been a very long time since this has been an issue). But SEs are all about providing a "human friendly" experience (in addition to being easy to parse programmatically). Modern SEs also show URLs in the search results.

So while one does not NEED alternative URLs, one may wish to use them to improve a website visitors experience (as well as the store owners experience - such as when looking through analytics).