Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[Mike_Dean]

The id in the categories can go away if you want to, assuming you dont have too many categories.

An automate process is planned for future release.

BTW, I meant to say "manually for each name", not link. Watch the link-alias video tutorial and you will understand.

Hi,

Yes, I am using 3.3.7 and have set up aliases for the category ID's just not all the links for each product.. that will take a while.!

Whilst I have your attention.. I have page 1 on google for a number of key words, what will happen to those links ? Do I have to set up a re-direction ? If so, how ?

[yellow1912]

SSU SHOULD redirect old links to new links properly (otherwise, there is no point in setting it up)
You can try to do some test on your site, visit the old links and see if you are redirected to the correct new ones, if not please report it here.

[Chris Rama]

This is a more appropriate way to handle it (from my pov), instead of leaving a blank field there.
SSU 3+ leaves much parsing job in your hand (since removing non alphanumeric characters can destroy the names of those sites that use multi-lang names).

That makes sense. I thought it was a bug because for those who upgrade, generally it's not desirable for links to change and old product links to give 404 instead a redirect. GoogleBot doesn't appreciate that as well. Somebody could bookmark a product and when decided to buy, will get a "page not found". But all this applies only to those who upgrade.

Maybe, there should be a note about this on the 'upgrade' section of docs so upgradees can adjust their product names and check if all links are identical to current version before going live.

Anyway, big thanks for clearing it up for me

[yellow1912]

That makes sense. I thought it was a bug because for those who upgrade, generally it's not desirable for links to change and old product links to give 404 instead a redirect. GoogleBot doesn't appreciate that as well. Somebody could bookmark a product and when decided to buy, will get a "page not found". But all this applies only to those who upgrade.

Maybe, there should be a note about this on the 'upgrade' section of docs so upgradees can adjust their product names and check if all links are identical to current version before going live.

Anyway, big thanks for clearing it up for me

Actually, in rare cases link names changed, SSU will properly redirect you to the new link (using the ids in the links)
So you will not get any page not found, unless that product does not exist anymore.

[Chris Rama]

Actually, in rare cases link names changed, SSU will properly redirect you to the new link (using the ids in the links)
So you will not get any page not found, unless that product does not exist anymore.

That's right it should work - i forgot about id's. It seemed that i got some 404 errors for products that had both brackets and commas, but i cannot confirm now. I started fixing by renaming products until all links were identical to the ones before upgrade. So maybe that was something else. false alarm

[dmagic]

Hi
i have problem with google just 2 pages to index
over 2 week ....

what to do ?

Thaks !

[yellow1912]

Hi
i have problem with google just 2 pages to index
over 2 week ....

what to do ?

Thaks !

Can you explain the problem in more details?

[dmagic]

sorry for both replay
how to make site map please ? i have problem with.

Thanks .

[Roope]

Please help me, I installed SSU to customers site and now it doesn't work at all. I deleted SSU files and returned originals but still nogo..

site is here: http://www.automodels.fi/

Frontpage loads but links are dead.
Throws 404 error: The requested URL /cSSU_ID_DELIMITER2 was not found on this server.

How can I fix this?

[Roope]

OK, so I installed SSU files again and got site up and running.

How can I modify SSUs settings?
urls are now generated: /cSSU_ID_DELIMITER18

not so good looking, nor usefull..
In admin panel there is BOW_SSU option (displays blank page) but nothing else. Where can I find configuration or should it be done manually?

Thanks in advance!