Ultimate SEO v3 (and v2.200) [Support Thread]

[rlexyd]

Thank you Simon, will test my site with google lighthouse in the morning.

[dbltoe]

Thank you Simon, will test my site with google lighthouse in the morning.

Your only problem is with the size of images slowing your TTI on mobile.
SEO is at 100 for both.
Google has already found your site. You need to finish your robots.txt and add sitemap to properly tell them where to go.

[rlexyd]

Your only problem is with the size of images slowing your TTI on mobile.
SEO is at 100 for both.
Google has already found your site. You need to finish your robots.txt and add sitemap to properly tell them where to go.

Thank you John,
I did the test and you are correct the images are the problem but I don't know how to fix that?
IH doesn't show my images clear and when it shrinks them even thought I set compression quality to 100.
I've also looked into WebP format which is better quality as I've tested it, but it doesn't work on iPhones which at this stage is my main source of clients.
I can't think of any other way to solve this issue?!

As for adding sitemap, I just downloaded and installed it on my 1.5.7c.
Was a simple install but the issue now is setting the parameters?! Have no clue what I need to set? I've looked into Configuration -> Sitemap XML but not sure what I need to change?!
Also step, 7: To have this update and automatically notify Google, you will need to set up a Cron job via your host's control panel. How do I do that?

As for robots.txt, can you please advise if the below is correct and sufficient enough?

User-agent: *
Allow: /

User-agent: amazonaws
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.php?main_page=popup_image*
Disallow: /*advanced_search*
Disallow: /*cookie_usage*
Disallow: /*unsubscribe*
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

Thank you in advance!

[rlexyd]

Ok, as for the (Select Sitemaps to Generate), I've left what is already ticked in sitemap, not sure if it's better to tick the boxnews, news, reviews?
I had to manually add a few of my categories as they did not get added to the file.

As for the main domain, do you have to use (.../index.php?main_page=index)? Can't just just use the actual domain without the index.php part?

Also, I first went to (https://www.xml-sitemaps.com) to create a sitemap and it scanned a whole lot more pages than the zen cart plugin did. Is it better to use that instead or stick with this?

Still not sure if the robots.txt I created is good to go or if it's need further adjusting?!

[rlexyd]

I went to google and submitted my link the sitemap.xml but it says couldn't fetch and Sitemap could not be read.
Any reason why?
I also put my link in the robots.txt I think correctly?

[lat9]

Could we take the general discussion of SEO to another thread, please?

[delia]

I just discovered over 20000 logs generated in the past two days containing these kinds of lines:
Request sent to href_link('index.php?main_page=site_map', '', 'NONSSL', true, true, true, true)
Generated URL: https://www.xxxxx.com/site_map.html

Is this the result of caching (admin settings) or what? I've never seen it before in all these years.

[lat9]

I just discovered over 20000 logs generated in the past two days containing these kinds of lines:
Request sent to href_link('index.php?main_page=site_map', '', 'NONSSL', true, true, true, true)
Generated URL: https://www.xxxxx.com/site_map.html

Is this the result of caching (admin settings) or what? I've never seen it before in all these years.

Do you have USU's debug enabled (or somewhere a constant defined for USU_DEBUG)?

[delia]

I don't but someone who thinks they know what they are doing was trying to install some code. I'm now cleaning up after him. Where would I start to look for such?

[lat9]

I don't but someone who thinks they know what they are doing was trying to install some code. I'm now cleaning up after him. Where would I start to look for such?

Use the admin's Tools :: Developers' Tool Kit and search for USU_DEBUG in all storefront *.php files.