Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[yellow1912]

Here it is:

#### 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 /thecablestation/

# 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

In your case it should be RewriteBase /

[micmed]

Stupid novice mistake!

Thanks Loads!

[yellow1912]

Stupid novice mistake!

Thanks Loads!

You are welcome

BTW, anyone testing the link-alias version? If you do, can you leave feedback here?

[ckosloff]

You are welcome

BTW, anyone testing the link-alias version? If you do, can you leave feedback here?

Give me some time and I will.
Am setting up a test bed inside the live site, I need an SSL cert. installed to test all options.

[micmed]

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

[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.

[micmed]

Thanks Qwert, so you think that www makes a difference?

[Zeiser50]

i've reinstalled seo url, more than 5 times, even on a clean zencart configuration.
i have always the same trouble. I should have missed something (for sure), but what ....

No, I suspect you havent uploaded all the files when you re-install the package.

Also, in your cases, use / in htaccess.

Regards

Ok i've restart the installation and found my previous problem (php 4 only!). Now it is ok (php5)
Still some trouble.
a) The "reset all cache" and "reset only category cache" option seems to work (no error messages)

b) The "reset only product cache" and "reset only manufacturer" answer is "cache/ssu" not writable and can not be opened. i've checked both and the both folder has 777.

c) The "reset only page cache " gives me an error :
Fatal error: Call to undefined method ssu_manager::reset_pages_cache_folder() in www/xxxxx/ssu.php on line 38

For b), i suspect a bad .htaccess . i have some difficulties to understand where i should put this file (root of my web site, or just on the upper directory). i've tried both and same pb.
Also, as my ZC is directly accessible (i.e not additional folder), i've tried with only / in the path. But so far,

Any idea for b) and c) ??

Michel