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

[lhungil]

Would this mod will help the search engines to find your more or less?

If you want to discuss Search Engine related topics, please use the Search Engines section of the forum. There are a large number of topics and discussions on how to optimize your site for search engines. A couple of threads at a glance: Custom rewrites for on page seo, Key words in URL, and basic operation for SEO.

This thread should be used for support and version announcements of "Ultimate SEO URLs" only.

[lhungil]

For all of the demo sites I've seen, including my stock 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 test sites, and my development site (lots of modules, different templates, etc) If you pull up the source and look at the "Form Action" you will see a URL like the first one you listed. This is the correct URL.

Just to clarify, I've added some example URLs found in the "form action" for adding a product to a URL. The log files and / or looking at the files I mentioned earlier should hopefully help you narrow down where things in your installation are broken.

Some examples

http://demo.zen-cart.cn/hewlett-packard-sale-with-attributes-on-sale-p-60.html?action=add_product&number_of_uploads=0
http://www.earth.local/store/dvd-movies-c-3/cartoons-c-3_13/a-bugs-life-linked-p-8.html?action=add_product
http://www.earth.local/zen-cart-v1.5.1/hardware-c-1/keyboards-c-1_8/microsoft-internet-keyboard-ps2-p-25.html?action=add_product&cpath=1
http://www.prom-mart.com/demo-1/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_4&products_id=1&number_of_uploads=0&action=add_product

[lhungil]

This plugin works perfectly on the site I am setting up (Yarnstyle.com, Zen 1.5.0) EXCEPT for the add to cart functionality is not working. :)
I suspect it is something I need to change in the .htaccess file....

I have verified the add to cart button works when I turn this plugin off so it has something to do with this installation. Any advice on where I should look to make changes?

I was finally able to duplicate this in one of my environments (only took me three days and lots of settings changing). My apologies: you were right, the culprit is in the .htaccess file.

Change:

RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-([^/])/(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$4&cpath=$2 [L]

To

RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-([^/])/(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$4&cpath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

[lhungil]

Affected Environments
Everyone, especially those running with "Categories as Directories". Everyone should update their .htaccess file accordingly.

Credits
Thanks to craftideasweekly for finding this bug.

Notes
The needed changes will be incorporated in the next release. In the meantime you can download and examine a copy of the new .htaccess sample file.

[lhungil]

htaccess Update / Patch Preview

[craftideasweekly]

Affected Environments
Everyone, especially those running with "Categories as Directories". Everyone should update their .htaccess file accordingly.

Credits
Thanks to craftideasweekly for finding this bug.

Notes
The needed changes will be incorporated in the next release. In the meantime you can download and examine a copy of the new .htaccess sample file.

Thank YOU!!! I had tried your other suggestions and figured I was missing something and turned the plugin off.
I'll add this to the .htaccess file, re-activate the plugin, and confirm it fixes the issue.

thanks again,
Molly

[craftideasweekly]

Confirmed -- the new .htaccess file worked like a charm! Thank you again!!:)

[adamells]

Everything is working for me except the "Buy Now" buttons on the product list page. I get exactly the same link for every product:

http://site/categoryname-c-1/?action=buy_now&sort=20a

Clicking the link just takes you to an empty cart, which makes sense since there's no product ID to pass. Turning off SEO makes the links work:

http://site/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&sort=20a&action=buy_now&products_id=2

I'm running 1.5.0 and I've re-copied the Ultimate SEO just to make sure I had the right files and versions. I am using the updated .htaccess (but this doesn't look like an .htaccess problem). Turning on/off pretty much every option in SEO URLs doesn't affect it.

Am I the only one with this issue? Any solutions? Thank you!

[SPH]

I recall someone having this or a similar problem some time back. His add to cart button from category product lisings did not work properly with Ultimate SEO. I think it was on the Search Engines forum. I spent a bit of time trying to find thread but couldn't. I don't think it was in the Ultimate SEO thread here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...imate-SEO-URLs

I recall it being a separate thread and don't recall if there was ever a solution.

BTW, it helps if you give the forum a link or text address to see your site. Sometimes someone might see the problem. Possibly other plugins or even templates (TM?) might be the cause of problems.

[SPH]

Here's another link (not the one I referenced) where someone had an add to cart problem with Ultimate SEO:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...seo+add+button

Looks like site went back to dynamic urls. Also, is a TM template which may have been a factor in the problem.