Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[yellow1912]

@Mike:
If you think of it like this: think of category as a parent folder, then the product as a file or a child folder, now does it make more sense to use the current link style?

Plus this link style is used by most website out there (Zencart or not), so I believe people will be more familiar with it.

[Mike_Dean]

@Mike:
If you think of it like this: think of category as a parent folder, then the product as a file or a child folder, now does it make more sense to use the current link style?

Plus this link style is used by most website out there (Zencart or not), so I believe people will be more familiar with it.

Thanks mydanilo and yellow


I took a read through from 140 as suggested, and can see the points of discussion regarding the need for category id to be in the URL,

Howver, like mydanilo, I have seen a few other sites that are Zen, and using an alternate SEO and they do not include the cat id..

If it has to be, then it has to be, just I agree with others that the "look" of the URL is just as important, which brings to me another point, can you force the URL to include Uppercase First Character in the URL ?

[yellow1912]

Well, since you can have thousands of products/categories, some of them have the same name, the id MUST be there on the link, no other way.

As for the cat id, you can remove them, but if you do so you have to remove them from All product links to avoid duplicated content. And as I mentioned before, zencart by default has it there, that means that it is needed somewhere. Removing it means you risk losing a core feature.

Why do you want to have upper case in the links? People always try to avoid that as much as they can.

[mydanilo]

Mike, have you ever seen upper case in a url? Don't think that is even possible. Try and type an url in the address bar in your browser and hit enter. See what happens? Url's are lower case....

[yellow1912]

Mike, have you ever seen upper case in a url? Don't think that is even possible. Try and type an url in the address bar in your browser and hit enter. See what happens? Url's are lower case....

If you havent noticed yet, cPath has the P in uppercase.

@Mike: But why do we have to complicate things? I dont feel comfortable with upper case in the links. And SSU is open-source, you can jump in and make the changes you want. The function you want to edit is _parse_name, clean cache after you make any change.

[Mike_Dean]

If you havent noticed yet, cPath has the P in uppercase.

@Mike: But why do we have to complicate things? I dont feel comfortable with upper case in the links. And SSU is open-source, you can jump in and make the changes you want. The function you want to edit is _parse_name, clean cache after you make any change.

Hi,

"IF" I was to have a look at this, just see what it would like like, where would I find the file that contains the function _parse_name .

I did a search, but could not find it.

[yellow1912]

includes/init_includes/init_ssu.php

That file is the brain of ssu, everything is in there.

[Mike_Dean]

Mike, have you ever seen upper case in a url? Don't think that is even possible. Try and type an url in the address bar in your browser and hit enter. See what happens? Url's are lower case....

Ok guys.... points taken..


Thanks..

[yellow1912]

I believe you are still running on the test site rite Mike? Don't forget to get the latest version when you use in live mode.
A number of bugs have been discovered and fixed.

Regards.

Ok guys.... points taken..


Thanks..

[Mike_Dean]

I believe you are still running on the test site rite Mike? Don't forget to get the latest version when you use in live mode.
A number of bugs have been discovered and fixed.

Regards.

Thanks..

Yes still running on the test, So I'm happy to change and edit things as per any advice.


Appreciate the great advice and response

Mike