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

[Kenton]

I installed this on my 1.5.5a and the installation went fine (except I had to do manual install - plugin manager doesn't exist)
Admin area came up with something like "Ultimate URLs installed successfully" in a green box :)

I can see and enter the setup for the module and it's showing as Enable alternate URLs? = true but my urls are still showing as :
http://www.skysports.com.au/index.ph...roducts_id=281

Do I have to do something to kick off the process?

[lat9]

Since you did a "manual" install, did you remember to copy/merge the /.htaccess file? That's where much of the USU "magic" comes from.

[Kenton]

Yes, i copied the file to / (same place as DIR_WS_CATALOG).
What permissions on .htaccess? Currently 644

[lhungil]

I installed this on my 1.5.5a and the installation went fine (except I had to do manual install - plugin manager doesn't exist)
Admin area came up with something like "Ultimate URLs installed successfully" in a green box :)

I can see and enter the setup for the module and it's showing as Enable alternate URLs? = true but my urls are still showing as :
http://www.skysports.com.au/index.ph...roducts_id=281

Do I have to do something to kick off the process?

It looks like you are missing some of the changes this module makes to core Zen Cart files. The currently version available from this website is compatible with Zen Cart 1.3.9h through Zen Cart 1.5.4. The included installer understands all of those versions and can apply the necessary changes to core Zen Cart files (and may even work with early releases of Zen Cart 1.5.5).

However some changes were introduced in Zen Cart 1.5.5a to the core Zen Cart files modified by the Ultimate URLs installer. There is a good chance when the installer runs it is unable to locate where changes to those files are needed (and just skips them to avoid breaking anything). While one could manually apply the changes required for older versions of Zen Cart, I am hesitant to recommend making any changes to the Zen Cart 1.5.5a core files at this time (an alternative method was introduced in Zen Cart 1.5.5a and some new code in Ultimate URLs to support the changes is still in QA testing).

[Kenton]

When is a 155a compatible version likely to be available?

[dspeak35640]

Is this add on anything like ultimate SEO URLs for oscommerce?

[carlwhat]

Is this add on anything like ultimate SEO URLs for oscommerce?

it looks like it is something like it.... probably derived from the same original code.

[dspeak35640]

it looks like it is something like it.... probably derived from the same original code.

Thank you for the quick response.

The reason I am thinking of installing this add on is because I went from oscommerce to zencart. Now all my links on the search engines are broken and I was thinking that if I had this installed my urls would be like the old urls and the search engine links would work once again.
Also do I need to just leave the core files alone, or do I have to upload the included core files with the package.

In your opinion is a add on like this helpful or not for getting pages indexed by search engines.

[carlwhat]

Thank you for the quick response.

The reason I am thinking of installing this add on is because I went from oscommerce to zencart. Now all my links on the search engines are broken and I was thinking that if I had this installed my urls would be like the old urls and the search engine links would work once again.
Also do I need to just leave the core files alone, or do I have to upload the included core files with the package.

In your opinion is a add on like this helpful or not for getting pages indexed by search engines.

you are best reading the install instructions. i think it touches a few core files, but i think this plug-in is FAR more solid than other plug-ins i have had to wrestle with.

i am NOT the SEO king, and clearly SEO has changed/evolved over the years that opportunists were buying domain names and holding them for ransom. and my opinion is just one data point.

there was an interesting conversation over on github on this very topic. i suggest reading that conversation and you can then make the decision yourself.

best.

https://github.com/zencart/zencart/issues/956

[HeathenMagic]

Hello there,

I wondered if somebody might have encountered this issue, it also happens to other SEO modules on zencart. I get many log like below, the file it is looking for does not exist. If I make an empty file of the same name in that location, the log for that particular url does not appear anymore. But there are countless logs that are being created still. Htaccess is configured as in installation for ultimate urls, and files are present and correct, and module works fine. I think this may be server related or old redirections that spiders are looking for, but just throwing this out in the hope somebody maybe was able to find which aspect is causing it. Thanks in advance.

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