Chemo's Ultimate URL's

[BlessIsaacola]

That's the one I'm using, but it doesn't work flawlessly for me. It doesn't put the SEO friendly URLs into the XML.

Is you store in the root directory or sub-directory?

[anita]

I have noticed that when I go into my site that sometimes the first category link that I click on will give me the url with the ?zenid= on the end like this one:
-http://www.anitasarts.com/anna-griffin-c-8.html?zenid=d79465d885ba6e2e074345ac141d9eff

Later in the same session if I go back to that same category it will be this:
-http://www.anitasarts.com/anna-griffin-c-8.html

I have noticed this on several other sites from posts in this thread also.

Does anybody know what causes that and if it is something that needs to be worried about as far as duplicate content with Google?

Is it considered a query string and ignored by Google?

[anita]

Also any time I go to a secure page the ?zenid= stuff is there. And when I go to a non secure page from a secure page the first non secure page will have the ?zenid= stuff. The next non secure page will not have the ?zenid stuff. I am using shared SSL.

Anyone have any clues how to fix that?

[kelvyn]

Also any time I go to a secure page the ?zenid= stuff is there. And when I go to a non secure page from a secure page the first non secure page will have the ?zenid= stuff. The next non secure page will not have the ?zenid stuff. I am using shared SSL.

Anyone have any clues how to fix that?

It's a pain in the ######## as far as bookmarking goes, and bound to be addressed soon, BUT, it doesn't actually get seen by google.
This is because it is a session identifier and therefore the spiders.txt list will make it not show for google.

You can try turning on "force cookie use" in session....

[mafiasam]

I'm getting some 404 not found errors returned by google web crawl:
Wondering if this is a problem with Ultimate URLs or another problem.
I assumed it ultimate URLs because of the php designation instead of html.
Can someone take a look at this and let me know...

URL Detail Last Calculated
http://www.oldwestgames.com/index.ph...ge&pID=311 404 (Not found) [?] Sep 13, 2006
http://www.oldwestgames.com/index.ph...ge&pID=317 404 (Not found) [?] Sep 13, 2006
http://www.oldwestgames.com/index.ph...ge&pID=319 404 (Not found) [?] Sep 13, 2006
http://www.oldwestgames.com/popup_image?amp;pID=311 404 (Not found) [?] Sep 13, 2006
http://www.oldwestgames.com/popup_image?amp;pID=317 404 (Not found) [?] Sep 13, 2006
http://www.oldwestgames.com/popup_image?amp;pID=319 404 (Not found) [?] Sep 13, 2006

I'm using Ultimate URL's without Image Handler so I know that IH isn't the problem.

zencart version 1.3.5
future zen template
google xml sitemap

thanks
Sam

[anita]

Kelvyn - thanks! That's one less worry.

[poosk]

I recently changed my url but our ssl is still behind the old domain. The cart works fine with the new url but when SEO is turned on browser gives:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand

any solution for this?

[BlessIsaacola]

I recently changed my url but our ssl is still behind the old domain. The cart works fine with the new url but when SEO is turned on browser gives:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand

any solution for this?

Is you SSL path accurately setup in configure.php?

[poosk]

admin config

// Define the webserver and path parameters
// Main webserver: eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.olddomain.com');
// Secure webserver: eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.olddomain.com'); // eg, https://localhost
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.newdomain.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://www.olddomain.com');

includes config

// Define the webserver and path parameters
// Main webserver: eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.newdomain.com');
// Secure webserver: eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.olddomain.com');
// secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');


I guess it gets a bit tricky since there's 2 domains in use..?

[BlessIsaacola]

That's definitely for sure. Any reason you're not using https on the new domain? Considering that Ultimate SEO works except for SSL pages, I'd better the problem is with the different domains. If you turn of Ultimate SEO does SSL works for regular Zen Cart pages like login, create account, etc. ?