Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[yellow1912]

Documentation added.

Please NOTE: this mod should NOT be used on a live site yet for several reasons:

1. A completely working 301 redirect method is still under development for best SEO practice (not that any other SEO mod such as Ultimate SEO or Magic SEO has done this properly). SSU's main goal is to do this properly.

2. I'm still thinking if I should even make the links created by SSU shorter. More features -> greater performance penalty, however.

@Absolute: I would be interested in testing SSU performance on site that has a large number of products like yours. Care to set a test site to do it?

Regards.

[yellow1912]

With the mod finally working in a stable mod, the next step taken would be mainly SEO.

I'm no SEO expert, so I had to seek answers from others before implementing the final algorithm, here is what to be expected in the next version, all comments are welcome. If you want something, better say it now.

1. Certain links such as:
product_info/cPath/gift-certificates-21/products_id/gift-certificate-5-00-28
Will now be shortened to something like this:
product_info/gift-certificates-21/gift-certificate-5-00-28

This is done for 2 reasons:
a. shorter urls
b. enforce the order the main params appear -> so we can prevent duplicated content risk.

2. Better 301 redirects which should cover most core links.

[DrByte]

If you're going to drop the cPath, I hope you have some other way of identifying the current category for cases when products are linked to more than one category.

[yellow1912]

Cpath value will still be there, I will just drop the word cPath in the links, but will re-build it before other functions need it.

[shocker]

I just installed Ultimate SEO URL 2.106.
I've configured it.

Now what?

Sorry for the obvious question.

[yellow1912]

I think you are in the wrong support thread, this thread is not for ultimate seo url.

[yellow1912]

I want to know if we are all okie with the current link structure, it will be hard to change things later:

http://demo.rubikintegration.com/zencart/

Otherwise we will stick with it.

[iRAY]

1. A completely working 301 redirect method is still under development for best SEO practice (not that any other SEO mod such as Ultimate SEO or Magic SEO has done this properly). SSU's main goal is to do this properly.

Could you please specify what exactly MSU is not doing properly?

One instance is if you disable showing cart after adding to cart, config'ed in the admin. It should show the "Items have been successfully added to the cart" message in lieu of taking you to the cart. With MSU installed, that feature didn't work. I don't know if the author of that mod has fixed the issue by now, I can't seem to get an update from them anymore, but at the time he told me that it was a ZC issue and I was basically on my own to figure it out, even though I paid him good money for it!!

This is not MSU bug, but Zen Cart session lost problem, please see this
thread for work around:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...648#post497648 (this solution is available for a long time...).

[yellow1912]

"Could you please specify what exactly MSU is not doing properly?"

I believe this was posted long ago, which Im pretty sure MSU fixed that already. I dont even remember what it is.

Any, stable version in zipped file:
https://svn.rubikintegration.com/zen...ipped_modules/
(Rev 216)

[iRAY]

"Could you please specify what exactly MSU is not doing properly?"

I believe this was posted long ago, which Im pretty sure MSU fixed that already. I dont even remember what it is.

The were never any issue/bug with redirections - it is absolutely basic feature. I really don't know where you got such info (you can review web sites which are using 1.0.00 version - redirections are working fine there).