Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[Feznizzle]

I just shot you an email, bud!

I am here now because I want to sing your praises from the mountaintop.

Conor,
YOU ROCK!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Seriously, this is an AWESOME mod and you did a bang up job. Thank you so much for all your hard work. And thank you for the direct help you gave me!

To anybody else using this mod who has not yet contributed financially, I hope that you will reconsider.

Think about this... why do you want this mod? Because you are smart enough to know that this mod will massively increase traffic on your site.

If you build a good site with good content, then you have a fighting chance. But if you then add this mod (+ the sitemapXML), then you have a recipe for serious SEO success. And THAT is worth money!

Your contribution will encourage brilliant minds like Conor to continue pondering innovations that further increase the effectiveness of your websites. If you are serious about making money, you should be serious about making sure those who help you to do so are remunerated.

Anyway, I'll shut up.

Conor... seriously, you rule bud.

[countrycharm]

I just shot you an email, bud!

I am here now because I want to sing your praises from the mountaintop.

Conor,
YOU ROCK!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Seriously, this is an AWESOME mod and you did a bang up job. Thank you so much for all your hard work. And thank you for the direct help you gave me!

To anybody else using this mod who has not yet contributed financially, I hope that you will reconsider.

Think about this... why do you want this mod? Because you are smart enough to know that this mod will massively increase traffic on your site.

If you build a good site with good content, then you have a fighting chance. But if you then add this mod (+ the sitemapXML), then you have a recipe for serious SEO success. And THAT is worth money!

Your contribution will encourage brilliant minds like Conor to continue pondering innovations that further increase the effectiveness of your websites. If you are serious about making money, you should be serious about making sure those who help you to do so are remunerated.

Anyway, I'll shut up.

Conor... seriously, you rule bud.

Yes it would be nice if everyone would consider giving a donation to the one's who do go out of the way for us. Conor does just that with this module.

[lollypopstar]

Hi Conor,

Loving the mod so far - so much easier to implement than other URL rewriting mods!

One question, in ZenCat version 1.3.9d the auto generate feature only works on new categories & products added to the site AFTER the mod has been installed right?

Have you (or anyone else) got the SQL code to loop through all the existing categories & products and add values to the MySQL table 'ceon_uri_mappings'

I could probably figure it out myself - but thought I would ask first?!

(Or might just tell the client it can't be done and make them edit & save all the existing cats and products!)

Thanks in advance
Laura

[conor]

Hi,

I just shot you an email, bud!

I am here now because I want to sing your praises from the mountaintop.

Thanks very much for that, it is probably the brightest post I've ever seen on a support thread for one of our modules! I'm very glad indeed that I've been able to help you and that the software's useful for your site! :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

Hi Conor,

Loving the mod so far - so much easier to implement than other URL rewriting mods!

One question, in ZenCat version 1.3.9d the auto generate feature only works on new categories & products added to the site AFTER the mod has been installed right?

Have you (or anyone else) got the SQL code to loop through all the existing categories & products and add values to the MySQL table 'ceon_uri_mappings'

I could probably figure it out myself - but thought I would ask first?!

(Or might just tell the client it can't be done and make them edit & save all the existing cats and products!)

Thanks in advance
Laura

In the README file for this module, are instructions for manually adding URIs to the database. You could use those instructions and come up with a way to automate adding existing product URIs.

I've used two methods for adding existing URIs to the database:

1. Create a URI spreadsheet and upload URI data from the spreadsheet
2. Have the client do the 1 time manual work to update the existing products. (Painful, but since they only had to do it ONCE they didn't mind)

[Feznizzle]

Well... my celebration might have been a tad premature. I am experiencing an issue.

The URI is adding "?zenid=gobbletygook" to the pretty urls it makes. Here are some examples:
/Warming_Cabinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Bassinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Narcotics_Storage?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6

In case you want to look, my site is: med harvest . com

If you delete the garbage, it loads just fine:
/Warming_Cabinets
/Bassinets
/Narcotics_Storage

When I installed Ceon URI 3.6.3 into my ZC139d, I simply dropped all provided files in... no merging, nothing. Just a straight adding of all files from the "files" folder, overwriting of files from "modified_core_files", and then overwriting of files from "template_override_files".

I'm pretty sure I got that right, everything else appears to work perfectly. I file compared between my server and the pure mod files, found the html_output.php to be an exact match.

The only part where I had to do any thinking was the htaccess file, I figure this might be the prob?

Here is what I have:

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

# Added to block Yandex Spider
deny from yandex.ru

RewriteEngine On

# Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(html)$ [NC]
# Don't rewrite admin directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/adminZZZ1 [NC]
# Don't rewrite editors directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors [NC]
# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/frontend [NC]
# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/whm [NC]
# Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (index.php)
RewriteRule .* index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Any thoughts on what I did wrong?

Thanks,
Mike

[DivaVocals]

To quote Conor in a previous post in this thread on the same question..

Zen Cart adds those parameters. I'm afraid you'd have to modify the way Zen Cart works!

There are several threads posted in this forum which the reason why these zenid's are added is explained (including a few recent posts)

Bottomline, this is default Zen Cart behavior which is not caused by Connor's mod, and cannot be "fixed" by it.. It's also not a cause for concern nor will it create duplicate content if that's your real concern..

Well... my celebration might have been a tad premature. I am experiencing an issue.

The URI is adding "?zenid=gobbletygook" to the pretty urls it makes. Here are some examples:
/Warming_Cabinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Bassinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Narcotics_Storage?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6

In case you want to look, my site is: med harvest . com

If you delete the garbage, it loads just fine:
/Warming_Cabinets
/Bassinets
/Narcotics_Storage

When I installed Ceon URI 3.6.3 into my ZC139d, I simply dropped all provided files in... no merging, nothing. Just a straight adding of all files from the "files" folder, overwriting of files from "modified_core_files", and then overwriting of files from "template_override_files".

I'm pretty sure I got that right, everything else appears to work perfectly. I file compared between my server and the pure mod files, found the html_output.php to be an exact match.

The only part where I had to do any thinking was the htaccess file, I figure this might be the prob?

Here is what I have:


Any thoughts on what I did wrong?

Thanks,
Mike

[DivaVocals]

This is one of MANY posts on this topic (zenids)..
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...36&postcount=3

If you need to know more, DrByte is your best source for this information.. If you post a question in a separate thread, you'll get a much more detailed explanation of zenids.. Try searching first though.. there really are quite a few existing posts on the topic..

Well... my celebration might have been a tad premature. I am experiencing an issue.

The URI is adding "?zenid=gobbletygook" to the pretty urls it makes. Here are some examples:
/Warming_Cabinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Bassinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Narcotics_Storage?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6

In case you want to look, my site is: med harvest . com

If you delete the garbage, it loads just fine:
/Warming_Cabinets
/Bassinets
/Narcotics_Storage

When I installed Ceon URI 3.6.3 into my ZC139d, I simply dropped all provided files in... no merging, nothing. Just a straight adding of all files from the "files" folder, overwriting of files from "modified_core_files", and then overwriting of files from "template_override_files".

I'm pretty sure I got that right, everything else appears to work perfectly. I file compared between my server and the pure mod files, found the html_output.php to be an exact match.

The only part where I had to do any thinking was the htaccess file, I figure this might be the prob?

Here is what I have:


Any thoughts on what I did wrong?

Thanks,
Mike

[Shane78]

you can also just switch off sessions in your admin to get rid of the zenid. but your site will not work on people computers who have cookies disabled.

Sounds bad doesnt it?.. not really... after a post by DrByte i played and found that other well known carts (Prestashop/magento for example) dont work on PCs which have cookies disabled. So... its up to you... how many people have cookies disabled?... how many online shoppers/PC users know what cookies are?.. id guess fairly few

Well... my celebration might have been a tad premature. I am experiencing an issue.

The URI is adding "?zenid=gobbletygook" to the pretty urls it makes. Here are some examples:
/Warming_Cabinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Bassinets?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6
/Narcotics_Storage?zenid=1121e91eeec859ef1cab5f6972e616c6

In case you want to look, my site is: med harvest . com

If you delete the garbage, it loads just fine:
/Warming_Cabinets
/Bassinets
/Narcotics_Storage

When I installed Ceon URI 3.6.3 into my ZC139d, I simply dropped all provided files in... no merging, nothing. Just a straight adding of all files from the "files" folder, overwriting of files from "modified_core_files", and then overwriting of files from "template_override_files".

I'm pretty sure I got that right, everything else appears to work perfectly. I file compared between my server and the pure mod files, found the html_output.php to be an exact match.

The only part where I had to do any thinking was the htaccess file, I figure this might be the prob?

Here is what I have:


Any thoughts on what I did wrong?

Thanks,
Mike

[Feznizzle]

Thanks for the help you guys. As much as I've been reading in here, I'm surprised I missed it. Maybe it is because I tend to skim when a problem seems "particular" to the user.

At one point I installed SSU's and I don't recall having this issue.

Anyway, cool. I honestly don't care as long as it doesn't show up on an index crawl from SEO (it won't, I know).