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    Default Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    Can anyone tell me what to change to limit the words in the rewrite filename?
    My URLS are showing up like this:
    http://www.lfmbooks.com/store/jacobs...on-p-3343.html
    which is fine except that search engines like shorter URLS.
    How can I shorten this
    jacobsen-charles-w-kitney-bruce-e-oriental-rugs-an-updated-guide-revised-2nd-edition-p-3343.html
    to something like this
    jacobsen-charles-w-kitney-bruce-e-oriental-rugs.html
    with about 6 or 7 words.

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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    Also I would like to remove the "-" from the urls.

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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    the - need to be there
    The easy way to make the urls shorter is to just change the title of your product ;)
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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    I can't shorten the titles - It would take a long time and would make it harder for customers to find products.
    I can live with the "-" but shortening the urls is something I need to do.
    I am relatively sure i saw a post one time that gave instructions on how to shorten url to 5 to 7 words but I can't find it now.
    Last edited by gutenburg; 27 Jun 2006 at 05:03 PM.

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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    Having looked at your site I would disagree because you have everything nicely laid out in the correct categories.
    Using rewrites isnt the way around this and isnt really going to help with urls like this one....
    http://www.lfmbooks.com/store/fox-dr...04-p-5567.html

    I would turn off the category counts in the admin btw as it will vastly improve your stores performance.
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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    Thanks for the the nice comment about the categorization.

    The only reason I am using url rewrites is because the search engines prefer static pages. I don't really care what the pages are named as long as they are less than 20 characters and they look static. If I shortened my titles I would have to remove part of the title of each book I am selling. You see, right now am using easypopulate and phpscript that I made to convert my inventory to zencart format. It is all automatic and all the titles are populated from that so it would be hard to change.

    I didn't realize that category counts would affect the speed of the site. Thanks for the tip.

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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    I figured changing "Filter Short Words" to 10 would do the trick but that works on some but not on others. Has anyone else had problems with "Filter Short Words" in the seo urls menu.

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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    empty the cache when you change a setting like that

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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    No that does not work.
    All pages still have words smaller than 10. Even if I set this at 48 it doesn't work.
    I have reset the cache several times also.
    http://www.lfmbooks.com/store/lepage...ht-p-4002.html

    Can you explain to me how to change urls to a shorter page such as p-4002.html
    instead of lepage-w-laurence-wynn-laurence-le-page-the-abc-of-flight-p-4002.html
    ?

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    Default Re: Shortening URLS on Ultimate URLS

    Thats the whole point of this mod.
    To have p-4002.html gives no benefit to you at all, you want keywords in the url.
    If you want a url like that just uninstall this and use zens default code.
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