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

[DrByte]

tpl_appletouchiconpng_default.php

When Apple-products try to surf around your site, instead of looking for favicon.ico files first, they look for apple-touch-icon.png files.
If you create that file, then this specific issue will go away.

Actually they look for lots of variants of that file, including the following (and probably more):
apple-touch-icon-180x180.png
apple-touch-icon-152x152.png
apple-touch-icon-120x120.png
apple-touch-icon-76x76.png
apple-touch-icon-57x57.png
apple-touch-icon.png
touch-icon-192x192.png


And microsoft devices (windows phones, surface tablets) look for:
ms-tile-image144x144.png

And they all look for favicon.ico too.

So the solution is simple: use an icon-capable graphics program to create appropriate variants of your store logo for the corresponding dimensions and filenames, and put them on your server.
There are hundreds of online articles on how to do this, including dozens of software programs that can do it. Some free. Some with crappy adware. Always use caution when installing new software.

[HeathenMagic]

Thanks Dr Byte, I will look into this and hope I can rectify the issue. It does it with file names also, and image names of some items, that reference such as 'tpl_imagesdiamondoiljpg_default.php' in the the templates folder. I am thinking it may be from an old template, as I switched and it seems to have the same behaviour. And files from modules such as'tpl_guestandfullaccountsupported_default.php' and 'tpl_qc_login_default.php'. So far I have nullified these logs by creating blank files for these and more. I will create logo variations as you advised, I think I have some good software somewhere that I can use.

[DrByte]

It does it with file names also, and image names of some items, that reference such as 'tpl_imagesdiamondoiljpg_default.php' in the the templates folder. I am thinking it may be from an old template, as I switched and it seems to have the same behaviour. And files from modules such as'tpl_guestandfullaccountsupported_default.php' and 'tpl_qc_login_default.php'.

Probably need to also fix whatever is rewriting things to point to invalid locations. And maybe turn back on the Missing Page Check setting in Admin->Config->My Store.

[Radek]

Hi All,
I installed USU 2.215 on my 1.5.5a and the installation went fine.
Admin area came up with "Ultimate URLs installed successfully".

The links in shop still looks without changes. For ex. link to contact us page is "http://domain/index.php?main_page=contact_us", but when I open this link, in browser address bar is displayed the "http://domain/contact_us.html" link. When I fill the link "http://domain/contact_us.html" in the address bar in new window of my browser, then page is opened ok.
It looks all going fine, but shop displays old untouched links.

Any idea?
Many thanks.
Radek

[carlwhat]

do you have any sort of caching turned on?

[augiespanoramas]

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

Any updates as of then a 1.5.5a compatible version will be available? I upgraded from 1.3.9h to 1.5.5a and now all of my old links are broken, I'd really like to get this installed in order to fix this!

[Radek]

do you have any sort of caching turned on?

No, all cache features (in USU settings) are OFF. But same behavior is, when I set it ON.

[augiespanoramas]

No, all cache features (in USU settings) are OFF. But same behavior is, when I set it ON.

I went ahead and attempted to install it, I am having the same results as Radek. If anyone knows of anything we can try, please post!

[carlwhat]

if your site(s) are available to look at, post the url so that we can get a better sense of the issue.

in addition, have you tried turning on the debug log in admin => configuration => SEO urls. and if so can you post some of the contents of the log?

[augiespanoramas]

if your site(s) are available to look at, post the url so that we can get a better sense of the issue.

in addition, have you tried turning on the debug log in admin => configuration => SEO urls. and if so can you post some of the contents of the log?

Hi Carlwhat,
My site is augiespanoramas(dot)com
I enabled debug log in the Configuration settings.
Here are the logs that I found (doubt they're useful):

index-2016-Jul-17_2.log

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===== URL Generation Log Started 2016-Jul-17T00:27:51
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Real URI:      index.php?main_page=index&cPath=10_63
Request URI:   /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=10_63
Canonical URI: 

============================================================
===== Generated Alternative URLs
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and:
product_info-2016-Jul-17_0.log

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===== URL Generation Log Started 2016-Jul-17T00:27:55
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Real URI:      index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10_63&products_id=145
Request URI:   /index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10_63&products_id=145
Canonical URI: 

============================================================
===== Generated Alternative URLs
============================================================