Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[yellow1912]

I've noticed the following error in admin under Extras /Simple SEO URL Manager


Render error, file not found(C:/xampp/htdocs/zencart/admin/includes/templates/templates/ssu/tpl_reset_cache_folder.php)

I've checked the folders and there is no ssu folder in /templates/

I missed it when updating the svn somehow, my bad, you can get the 2 files here:
https://svn.rubikintegration.com/zen...templates/ssu/

I will update the zip file now as well

[Mike_Dean]

I missed it when updating the svn somehow, my bad, you can get the 2 files here:
https://svn.rubikintegration.com/zen...templates/ssu/

I will update the zip file now as well

Thanks yellow,

Since I'm just starting with SSU, I might grab the latest version and run with that instead.

[yellow1912]

Demo of the 2 new features:

http://demo.rubikintegration.com/zencart/mixed-product-types-c-64/sample-product-general-type-p-168

(note: the "of" in the product name "Sample of Product General Type" is removed from the link because in my case I set to remove any word less than 2 in length)

Also note that this version is only available on svn, it's not listed in the zipped module yet.

[Mike_Dean]

Hi yellow,

I have version 224 running ok.. (thanks for the guidance..)

Please excuse my ignorance, but is there a reason that the products category details need to be listed in the URL ?

Eg:

This link

cd-media-c-5/cd-r-archival-gold-16-pack-with-3-ring-binder-and-sleeves-p-843

Would it not look better as.. (Note the / between the category and product description and the extra / at the end of the description and the product number.

cd-media/cd-r-archival-gold-16-pack-with-3-ring-binder-and-sleeves-/p-843

Thanks,
Mike

[mydanilo]

Hi Mike,

Yellow and I have been discussing these things extensively. Start reading at post ~140 and this will bring you up to speed. He did a lot of clean up already since then.

[yellow1912]

@Mike:
If you think of it like this: think of category as a parent folder, then the product as a file or a child folder, now does it make more sense to use the current link style?

Plus this link style is used by most website out there (Zencart or not), so I believe people will be more familiar with it.

[Mike_Dean]

@Mike:
If you think of it like this: think of category as a parent folder, then the product as a file or a child folder, now does it make more sense to use the current link style?

Plus this link style is used by most website out there (Zencart or not), so I believe people will be more familiar with it.

Thanks mydanilo and yellow


I took a read through from 140 as suggested, and can see the points of discussion regarding the need for category id to be in the URL,

Howver, like mydanilo, I have seen a few other sites that are Zen, and using an alternate SEO and they do not include the cat id..

If it has to be, then it has to be, just I agree with others that the "look" of the URL is just as important, which brings to me another point, can you force the URL to include Uppercase First Character in the URL ?

[yellow1912]

Well, since you can have thousands of products/categories, some of them have the same name, the id MUST be there on the link, no other way.

As for the cat id, you can remove them, but if you do so you have to remove them from All product links to avoid duplicated content. And as I mentioned before, zencart by default has it there, that means that it is needed somewhere. Removing it means you risk losing a core feature.

Why do you want to have upper case in the links? People always try to avoid that as much as they can.

[mydanilo]

Mike, have you ever seen upper case in a url? Don't think that is even possible. Try and type an url in the address bar in your browser and hit enter. See what happens? Url's are lower case....