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

[mani]

hello everyone,

I have installed Ultimate SEO for a client, it works fine when I select the English language
http://www.gems4u.se/store/silver-je...emstones-c-25/

But when I choose Swedish language pack it shows
http://www.gems4u.se/store/-c-25/

Any idea how do I fix URLS for Swedish language?

[lhungil]

What version of Zen Cart do you have installed?

What version of Ultimate URLs do you have installed?

What is in the Zen Cart debug logs?

What is in any configured PHP error logs (or server error logs)?

If using Zen Cart 1.5+, can you verified the "Swedish" language pack you installed uses "UTF-8" as the character encoding and character set (language files, database, and Zen Cart configuration)? If any of these do not match, they could be the source of your issues...

[mani]

Thanks for the reply. I have version 1.5.1 installed. I actually upgraded zen cart from version 1.3.8. So what do you suggest I should change the charset as well?

[lhungil]

Thanks for the reply. I have version 1.5.1 installed. I actually upgraded zen cart from version 1.3.8. So what do you suggest I should change the charset as well?

What version of Ultimate URLs do you have installed?
What is in the Zen Cart debug logs?
What is in any configured PHP error logs (or server error logs)?

[liyucmh]

my zencart version 1.5.1 japanese
web server: nginx
I have zencart 1.39h and zencart 1.5.1 both on my web server, 1.39h used the old version of Ultimate SEO, 1.5.1 used the Ultimate SEO final version. so how to write the rewrite rule in nginx, it can make them both work, thanks very much

[lhungil]

... how to write the rewrite rule in nginx ...

A quick search of this thread (click on search thread) reveals: this post.

[BoydBreen]

Hi Everyone

I have ultimate seo urls installed and working for the most part just fine.

I have one small issue

In my featured sideboxes and special sideboxes the add to cart button is producing the following URL structrure

http://www.avinstalls.co.uk/future-a...s_id=7&sort=2a

This url works however the question mark at the end of the product URL should be a & mark not a ? I believe that this is causing soft 404

Can anyone point me in the right direction I have de installed this mod and indeed zencart reverts to using the & instead of a ? so by the process of elimination it is definitely something to do with this mod.

Any help would be greatly appreciated perhaps there is something in the HTML output file that needs tweaking.

Many Thanks

[lhungil]

... "http://www.avinstalls.co.uk/future-automation-ceiling-tv-lift-mechanism-ch6-p-76.html?action=buy_now&alpha_filter_id=84&filter_id=39&language=en&manufacturers _id=7&sort=2a"

This url works however the question mark at the end of the product URL should be a & mark not a ? ...

Please explain why you think the question mark should be an ampersand. See RFC 3986 for details on how URLs are constructed.

... I have de installed this mod and indeed zencart reverts to using the & instead of a ? ...

Zen Cart uses something similar to "http://www.avinstalls.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=26&action=buy_now&alpha_filter_id=84&filter_i d=39&language=en&manufacturers_id=7&sort=2a".

Ultimate URLs uses something similar to "http://www.avinstalls.co.uk/future-automation-ceiling-tv-lift-mechanism-ch6-p-76.html?action=buy_now&alpha_filter_id=84&filter_id=39&language=en&manufacturers_id=7&so rt=2a"

Note the presence of a question mark is used to indicate the start of the "query" by both. This follows RFC 3986:

URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]

... I believe that this is causing soft 404 ... Any help would be greatly appreciated perhaps there is something in the HTML output file that needs tweaking. ...

Most likely the actual cause your site is configured to issue a 302 redirect to another page (shopping cart) when a visitor "follows" that link. When multiple DIFFERENT links all redirect to the same page (and the page specifies the meta tag for "noindex"), some Search Engines may assume the links are for pages which do not exist and treat them as a 404 (and label them as soft 404s).

Have you tried adjusted your settings in webmaster tools (or robots.txt) to indicate URLs containing the query parameter "action=buy_now" should be excluded from being followed? Or adding a "nofollow" to the link? Or changing the "link" to a website form (such as the product pages use)?

[bvgolf]

Hello,

I recently upgraded to the version 2.121. Is there any way to show the url only in the default language (English) even for the other language pages?

I run Zen Cart 1.3.9h in both English & Japanese with PHP 5.2.17 & MySQL 5.0.95. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thank you,

[BoydBreen]

Hi Ihungil

Many thanks for your response makes allot of sense thanks for shedding some more light on this problem.

I would like to try excluding them using robots text but I cant seem to find any resources to help me write something to exclude the query parameter "action=buy_now"
sorry to be a pain but could you assists or point me in the right direction.

Regards

Boyd