Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[yellow1912]

After reading all these threads, HOW stable is this addon?

I am currently using Magic-seo but its getting expensive buying it for every site...

Is it worth me using this addon at the moment?

2.9.6 is stable and being used on many sites.
3.x and up provides a wide range of new features, but it is still in testing and not recommended for use on a live site

Regards

[toussi]

Pardon me if this has been asked before.

Is this as good as Magic-SEO? any up and downs?

[yellow1912]

As of version 2.9.6, this module includes these things:

1. Convert most if not all ZC created links into User Friendly links (no more query string like ?main_page=index&cPath=blah)
Several link examples:
a contact us:
site.com/contact_us (or site.com/contact_us.ext where ext is the extension you choose)

a product info page:
site.com/bracelets-c-1_2/fashion-silver-p-9

It works for any module that uses ZC's function to create links.

2. 301 redirection: redirect all old-style link to seo links.

3. For links containing cPath and products_id inside, corresponding category/product name can be added to the links (as show above)
a. As of now, you can decide the number of category names to be included (for example, if you choose 3, with a cPath like this: 24_47_49_50 the category names of the last 3 categories (47,49,50) will be appended to the link
b. If the category name or the product name in the link is incorrect, ssu will automatically redirects to the correct one
c. Usually in ZC, a product_info link can contain both cPath and products_id. However, if the cPath is incorrect or is not there, ZC doesnt care at all, it still displays the page just fine. SSU will redirect the users to the correct link (by finding out the correct cPath of the product)

4. Allows store owners to exclude any page link from using seo link style.

5. Light-weight, minimal performance penalty

6. Allow removing short words from category/product names

7. Allow limiting the max length of category/product names

8. currently supports: category, product, ezpage, manufacturer names

As you can see, it really shines when you need something fast, free, and can convert all links (including links generated by other modules such as google base feeder,....)

It does have its drawback, for example, you can see the links still contain identifiers such as (-p-) or (-c-)

3.2 version and up aim to address this problem.

Also, as of now, SSU does not understand links generated by Magic Seo yet, so dont use it on sites that already using Magic Seo (yet).

[xordox]

This version took me many days to work on, and many sleepless nights. 80% of the has been rewritten to support a new plug-and-play system with the load on demand ability.

New features:
1. Support for multi-languages sites:
http://site.com/en/english_links
http://site.com/fr/french_links


(Planning to blow all other SEO modules away )

Yellow, you are the BEST!!!

[xordox]

Yellow, when I try to upgrade from 2.9.6, I got error when I try to access to admin panel:
Fatal error: Class 'simple_seo_url' not found in /admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/ssu.php on line 9
Maybe need unistall 2.9.6 before?

[yellow1912]

Yellow, when I try to upgrade from 2.9.6, I got error when I try to access to admin panel:
Fatal error: Class 'simple_seo_url' not found in /admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/ssu.php on line 9
Maybe need unistall 2.9.6 before?

xordox, 3.2 should NOT be used in live store, so I hope you are just testing it on a test server.

Read the upgrade.txt, several files from old version have to be deleted.

[yellow1912]

I think the 3 most exciting about the new version(3.2+) is:
1. A better support for multi-lang site (language no longer attached to the end of the url, it is appended to the start, which makes more sense)

2. The ability to write your own plugin to parse anything you want. You are no longer limited by the default ones provided by SSU.

3. And of course, the exciting link alias is coming with more performance improvement (expect to see it in 3.2.1)

Regarding the common request by many users: removing all "identifiers" and id from the urls, link alias should help you with that.

Basically I already have the idea how to implement link alias with the minimal performance hit as well, I'm just still stuck at one point: what to do when you change the rewrite rule, or when you change the category, a very good example is

This is the old-style link:
http://site.com/this-is-a-cat-c-1/great-product-p-1

This is the alias:
http://site.com/this-is-a-cat/great-product

Or it can even be this:
http://site.com/october-promotion

The thing is, with the old style, if you change category/product name or parsing rule, SSU will simple re-calculate the name and redirect the users to the correct ones. With the new one, it is not that simple, since there is nothing on the link to use as a base to recalculate the new link. Or we will have to at least keep the ids in the links for now.
I will have to come up with a solution, somehow. All suggestions are welcome.

Raine

[xordox]

Ok, I deleted unnecessary files for update, but after I got error: try to set table "links_aliase" that already exist. When I delete it from PHP my admin SSU start to work.
Now, its work but when I set "Set SSU Multi Language Status"
I have 404 error on site

[yellow1912]

Are you still using the dev site you showed me before? Can you send me info again? It will be great to test this out and sort out all possible problems ^_^ Thanks for helping me to test this btw.

[xordox]

please check pm