Chemo's Ultimate URL's

[kelvyn]

Don't forget that the Magic SEO COSTS and you have to maintain a link to their web site!!

I've had a look at this magic SEO mod. I need to have a little more testimony if I'm going to be splashing out that much for one mod, I mean, I've been caught out before. As in...

and i don't think that Chemo willl be working to give you a free, ready to install, SEO URL... because he is not even answering , as far as i know, here

It's been a while since I've been round this way, so by way of hopefully helping others understand, here's
[FONT="Arial"]a summary of the Ultimate SEO URL situation [/FONT]
as I see it.
In this post on 11th October 2006,

Ok, I started a fund drive over at fundable.org for completing development of version 3 of this module:

https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/zencart-seo-urls

Note: The fundraiser is open for only 25 days.

Note: You don't pay upfront. You make a pledge now for whatever amount you want to give, and you only pay if and when the fund goal is reached.

The project goal was for $500, and from that page you'll see that $575 was raised on time, most like me contributed $25, some contributed $100 or more.

And that was the last we heard of it. No explanation. Chemo/Dreamscape/Josh was logging into the forums regularly, but not replying to any threads. There was no suggestion of ill-health, so a group of us contacted fundable and paypal to explain that the "product" part of the deal wasn't appearing.

In February, suddenly a great splodge of work appeared, along with the Bug Tracker (with many patches) and lots of activity in the forums. On the whole, the product was fine. I think the problem lies with the fact that the patches were never integrated with the product. I posted a patch file back in March 2007. Josh went AWOL again, but still logging into the Zen forums every few days.

The last time he logged in was 19th September 2007 12:07 AM and his last post was on 7th June 2007 which said

Not well... dealing with many health issues... everyone bearing down on you to get ############ done yesterday eventually eats you alive... can't talk any more right now.

Now, it has occured to me more than once that Chemo refers to Chemotherapy. So the thing is, I really don't know what's going on here.

I think, without reasonable explanation, some people are allowed to feel irked.
After all, the deal was "pay me $500 in x amount of time and I'll make v3 of this mod". The result was $575, on time, and a half-finished Beta. I'm not saying that, if there are genuine health issues I expect this to be finished, but for those saying "don't expect him to make you something for free", we didn't.

Would that be a fair summary of the situation?

For those of you claiming that this works, how did you resolve the attribute issue where this mod messes up the link for products with attribute? How did you resolve the issue with regards to products that have ' in the name? When this mod is installed, search result does not yield any result of product name inlcudes '

Well, there's an interesting thing - I'll admit I didn't notice that. CU SEO was doing so well for us on Google, but now you've pointed that out, there could be issues. Has anyone tried escaping ( \' ) all the ' and " marks? Does the new version in downloads improve this? What about the Magic version?

Well, I hope this summary has helped others - now if someone could help me fill the gaps in my knowledge I'd be grateful!

[CJPinder]

it has occured to me more than once that Chemo refers to Chemotherapy. So the thing is, I really don't know what's going on here.

Chemo was the username of the person that wrote the original SEO URLs mod for OSCommerce (his real name is Bobby Easland). He's not the same person as Dreamscape. As far as I know, Chemo has never done any work on Zen Cart mods. His name just got carried over when the mod was ported from OSCommerce to ZenCart.

Regards,
Christian.

[BlessIsaacola]

Would that be a fair summary of the situation?Well, there's an interesting thing - I'll admit I didn't notice that. CU SEO was doing so well for us on Google, but now you've pointed that out, there could be issues. Has anyone tried escaping ( \' ) all the ' and " marks? Does the new version in downloads improve this? What about the Magic version?

Well, I hope this summary has helped others - now if someone could help me fill the gaps in my knowledge I'd be grateful!

Kelvyn,
Thanks for the summary and yes that reflects basically what happened. I am with you that Dreamscape's health if of great importance. I just which he would have done a better job of communicating before abandoning the project (especially given how the project was initiated with fundable).

Like, you we were experiencing great improvement with google and more importantly msn and yahoo with seo url but the two issues relating to attributes and ' in product name definitely stopped us from using it. We have 1,000s products with attributes and google started indexing wrong urls which didn't help our situation. Too many 404 errors.

Magic SEO works fine and I talked with them. There are some issues for our situation that prevented us from using i.e. it doesn't support more than 3 category levels and I believe there is an issue with how it handles http versus https for the same domain.

It's very promising and they are going to address most limitations in January 2008.

[BlessIsaacola]

heheheeee


tell him to check it out behind there is above 100 duplicated answers to his question i think


anyhow

i think there is another problem with it, i doubt that uploading the files for more than 7 times and installing it 4 times will result the same problem if its about the FTP program or installation.

but anyhow


its fine now :)

Assuming that you understand the question, please point out where this has been answered or better yet show me ONE website that is using this mod that doesn't have the two issues described.

Thanks!

[kelvyn]

It's very promising and they are going to address most limitations in January 2008.

OK, thanks for that!I'm hoping they might be able to bring the price down a bit too, for multiple orders!

[BlessIsaacola]

OK, thanks for that!I'm hoping they might be able to bring the price down a bit too, for multiple orders!

Although, I am in no way associated with them, I'd imagine if you contact them they will give you a discount on multiple orders. It never hurts to ask. The one good thing is they provide updates with every Zen Cart releases (if it breaks the seo url) which is priceless given how much time we spend chasing code changes to make this thing work. :)

[ctcentralinfo]

I think what Dreamscape has done so far is great. I think that this mod should be considered as another add on to zen-cart. I understand the designers don't want to create a bloated shopping cart e commerce program, but maybe one of you guys could look into the issue that BlessIsaacola brought up.

[saher.alsous]

Assuming that you understand the question, please point out where this has been answered or better yet show me ONE website that is using this mod that doesn't have the two issues described.

Thanks!

hey man

sorry to say the word "Answers" in fact i meant posts.

but there was an answer in fact that has a link in the thread i can't find it now but i went to the mod bug site where dreamscape reported the error of the attributes there...

he reported it as a fixed problem in fact but i don't know where is the solution it seems that either he forgot to attach the needed script or i don't know

you can find it here:

http://bugs.smarterwebdev.com/view_bug.php?bug_id=14

do you have an account there?

thats what he's writing:

Products in the shopping cart that contain attributes display an incorrect url in the shopping cart.

The url appears as:
-p-{id}:{attribute_string}

When it should appear as:
{item_name}-p-{id}:{attribute_string}

thats your problem right?

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Posted Mar 2nd, 2007, 08:37PMLast updatedJun 29th, 2007, 12:41PMPercent completed 100%CategoryBugsStatusFixed Severity2 - Normal

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messed a little bit but i think that you understand what is it about!

for me i removed version 3.

and im using the older version that was subbmited few threads above with the paches for Zen 1.3.7, and it works well with the attributes.

best regards

saher

[CraigW]

and im using the older version that was subbmited few threads above with the paches for Zen 1.3.7, and it works well with the attributes.

Same here, I just haven't found any issues I couldn't live with when using the older 2.105 version.

[BlessIsaacola]

hey man

sorry to say the word "Answers" in fact i meant posts.

but there was an answer in fact that has a link in the thread i can't find it now but i went to the mod bug site where dreamscape reported the error of the attributes there...

he reported it as a fixed problem in fact but i don't know where is the solution it seems that either he forgot to attach the needed script or i don't know

you can find it here:

http://bugs.smarterwebdev.com/view_bug.php?bug_id=14

do you have an account there?

thats what he's writing:



thats your problem right?

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ProductSeo Urls for Zen CartFiled by dreamscape
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Posted Mar 2nd, 2007, 08:37PMLast updatedJun 29th, 2007, 12:41PMPercent completed 100%CategoryBugsStatusFixed Severity2 - Normal

messed a little bit but i think that you understand what is it about!

for me i removed version 3.

and im using the older version that was subbmited few threads above with the paches for Zen 1.3.7, and it works well with the attributes.

best regards

saher[/QUOTE]

Yeah! I am aware of all the things you posted above. I know Dreamscape fixed a lot of stuff but he never released all of them as patches or even posted codes. There are only five patches he released even though there are more fixes than that.

There are too many know problems with version 2 as well but I am okay now as I have purchased magic seo url which works flawlessly.