Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[SPH]

What is meant that seo urls may wreck sites? That it may cause a conflict with some mod and blow up the site, as one of my demo 1.5 sites did the other night? * Or is it meant that seo urls don't rank as well as dynamic urls?

I've heard time and again and kind of believe that dynamic urls rank well. This may be the first I've heard suggesting that re-written urls don't rank well. My experience is that would be incorrect. Rewritten urls plus good content can rank at least as high as unwritten urls plus good content, insofar as I've seen.

The ONLY problem with seo urls and zencart that I see is that since they are not built in, there is always the risk of conflict with something. I truly believe that if seo urls were a built-in zencart option to turn on or off in the admin and were stable, the majority of users would turn them on.

No reason not to, in that case.

I've been thinking, maybe there is a reason why the zencart team does not take some of the more popular mods and just incorporate them in to the default install (IH, for example). Many are template specific, and the team would have to write instructions for whatever template the user ends up with.

But seo urls (right now I'm more familiar with the new Ultimate SEO URL) don't seem to be template specific. I guess the zencart team has their reasons for not taking that mod or the basic CEON URI and making it part of the basic install. I cannot believe that "they don't work" can be the reason.


*I don't know if it was Ultimate SEO URL, the new free template I tried, or the failed Lightbox install (wouldn't accept sql), but site went kaput when tried to switch back to prior template:

www.prom-mart.com/zencart/

But it's Ultimate SEO URL seems to still be working....

sph
www.prom-mart.com
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