Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[Qwert302]

Another novice question.

How do I integrate my 301 redirect with the SSU code?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^thecablestation.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://thecablestation.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Thanks

Ok everybody, on the subject of SEO, I suggest adding 301 redirects to avoid canonical problems (www. vs. non-www)

Add this to the bottom of the .htaccess that yellow gives you

#RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php#
#RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.yoursite.com$1 [R=301,L]#

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com$1 [R=301,L]

And add this to the admin .htaccess

RewriteEngine off

Yellow I would suggest incorporating this into the code of your mod since it really is important to SEO.

This way any links that go to yoursite.com or yoursite.com/index.php will be redirected to www.yoursite.com, and you will gain more pagerank as a result.

Now you can set it up for www.yoursite.com to go to yoursite.com, and there are mixed views on which is better, all I know is that with ZC www. seems to work better.

Contact me with any questions.

Follow this example.

[Qwert302]

I have always ranked in the top 5 for my keywords on MSN and Live, but I just checked today and I'm not ranking for any of them. Now this might be a coincidence, or it might be that they are checking all my old links and get 301s and so they dropped me. I'm assuming it will come back. I have updated my sitemaps and everything and I can see that everything is fine with google through webmastertools.

However, my rankings on Google went down immediately after I installed, but seem to have recovered already and are on an upward trend (that hopefully will continue). I'm hoping MSN is just slower in recognizing the change than google is.

Interestingly enough my conversions have been better since I installed SSU. Does the URL really have that much a a psychological effect?

Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has been booted off MSN rankings after installing this? I never got much traffic through MSN/Live anyway despite my much higher rankings there than at google.

[yellow1912]

Interesting, keep us updated. Regarding MSN, I once had an online store and was at top of several keywords on MSN, never got a sale from there though. It's google that sent all my customers to me.
So I wouldnt really care about MSN *_*, but that's just me.

I have always ranked in the top 5 for my keywords on MSN and Live, but I just checked today and I'm not ranking for any of them. Now this might be a coincidence, or it might be that they are checking all my old links and get 301s and so they dropped me. I'm assuming it will come back. I have updated my sitemaps and everything and I can see that everything is fine with google through webmastertools.

However, my rankings on Google went down immediately after I installed, but seem to have recovered already and are on an upward trend (that hopefully will continue). I'm hoping MSN is just slower in recognizing the change than google is.

Interestingly enough my conversions have been better since I installed SSU. Does the URL really have that much a a psychological effect?

Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has been booted off MSN rankings after installing this? I never got much traffic through MSN/Live anyway despite my much higher rankings there than at google.

[yellow1912]

Also:
your server (linux or windows?)
php version

your current htaccess config

your site link

[Zeiser50]

Yellow,

i've tried on 2 different configuration :
- one remote testconfig (www.test.poumi-shop 'dot' com) (linux 2.6.24.5, php 5.2.6, mysql 5, apache 2.2.x). The seo url is not currently activated

- one local testconfig, on my local pc (easyphp on windows xp sp2, php5.2.0, mysql 5, apache 2.2.3)

On both sites, i have the same htaccess :

#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# Make sure to change "test_site" to the subfolder you install ZC. If you use root folder, change to: RewriteBase /
RewriteBase /

# Deny access from .htaccess
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]
#### EOF SSU

Below the sequence done (my last test, done on the local config):
-> fresh new installation with zencart 1.3.8a
-> copy all the module manager file
-> test on /admin if the manager has been installed
-> copy all the seo url files (and replace some of the module manager files)
-> "install new modules" option on module manager
-> "extra - SEO manager" option
-> then "reset cache option"
-> "reset all cache" and "reset only categories cache" seems to be ok (no error message)
-> "reset product cache" and "reset manufacturer cache " gives me the error "cache/ssu is not writable" "could not open dir" (i've checked that cache directory has the777 property)
-> The "reset only page cache " gives me an error :
Fatal error: Call to undefined method su_manager::reset_pages_cache_folder() in www/includes/admin/ssu.php on line 38

i'm 99.99% sure that all the files has been copied (i've done it 10 times maybe ..). As the test done on a fresh zencart config is not ok, i should make a BIG mistake somewhere .....

Thanks for your support and your help

[yellow1912]

Maybe you missed this one when you read the installation guide:

http://code.google.com/p/zencart-mod...downloads/list

Also, make sure to set cache/ssu and all folders under it to 777

[Zeiser50]

Maybe you missed this one when you read the installation guide:

http://code.google.com/p/zencart-mod...downloads/list

What do you exactly mean ? It is the version 15 which is currently installed.
Yes, i've checked that The cache/ssu has 777

[yellow1912]

Very frustrated, but Godaddy caches .htaccess files, and renews the cache every hour or so. All the changes I tried were not reflected right away, I will try again early this morning.

[Gary777]

Yellow,

I think you may have been speaking to bohan36, the file you linked to looks like an IIS version, can you confirm?

Thanks

Gary777

[yellow1912]

Yellow,

I think you may have been speaking to bohan36, the file you linked to looks like an IIS version, can you confirm?

Thanks

Gary777

It actually is the same as the Linux version, but it uses $_SERVER var instead of getenv.