Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[Gerjan]

Some extra information regarding my previous post:

All "guest" visitors hav the link:
/includes/templates/pannenland/images/ or /favicon.ico

Spiders do have the standard url like /index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=338

Couldn't find anything in FAQ or configuration instructions.

[petelutonuk]

Hello folks, I am starting to get ever so slightly frustrated that I can't get a response regarding my previous query on 28th February 2009. I have set up the CEON URI name mapping and the PHP IDs are converted as I want them but when you click on any of the converted links, the page cannot be found. I have tried tweaking my .htaccess file till I am blue in the face but it only ever gets worse and not better. My web host www.namehog.net cannot help and I need to get this sorted urgently otherwise I think I will have to buy a package like Clickcartpro where I am guaranteed support. This would be a shame as Zencart seems to do what I want...apart from the URI mapping!. Can anyone help? Please!!!

[conor]

Hi Pete,

Hello folks, I am starting to get ever so slightly frustrated that I can't get a response regarding my previous query on 28th February 2009.

I was away on my holidays from the 28th until today and I don't provide free support for people when I'm off!

I have set up the CEON URI name mapping and the PHP IDs are converted as I want them but when you click on any of the converted links, the page cannot be found. I have tried tweaking my .htaccess file till I am blue in the face but it only ever gets worse and not better.

Please send me FTP and admin details for your site via the following link and I'll check out what's happening. More than likely you've just put the wrong paths in. (Of course you can delete any temporary accounts later for peace of mind).

http://dev.ceon.net/contact_us

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Can this mod be used for just the ez pages and still use Ultimate SEO URLs?

No, sorry.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Two questions;
1 Looking at "Who's online", all the customers are looking at the images folder in my template. When I follow the link I end up on the home page. Before installing this mod I could follow the link and see what they were actually looking at. Now only pop-up images have the standard url. Is this "normal" or do I have to change settings?
The site works 100% ok because I still get orders...

I really don't understand what you are asking here? The who's online function in Tools simply links to the page the person was visiting, why is yours recording image paths?

2 Do I understand correctly that I have to save every product again to change the url? Not that it's a big problem, it will only take some time.

Yes, it wasn't built with automatic support for generating URIs for all products in a category as the initial focus of the module was allowing specific URIs to be manually typed in.

Although I only installed it to get better results for search-engines, it also looks much better in the url adress. There's a understandable adress instead of some long code.

Yes, absolutely. That was the initial point behind the module - to allow the use of human readable URIs on advertising literature. :)

Again, great module! Thank you very much.

You're very welcome, I'm glad you like it!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[Gerjan]

Thank you for answering. Sorry for my english. It's not perfect and I sometimes have difficulties explaining (technical) problems. Also, I'm not an expert. I observe, read, ask and copy. Sofar it works

Hi,
I really don't understand what you are asking here? The who's online function in Tools simply links to the page the person was visiting, why is yours recording image paths?

That's the problem... it only links to the template directory, nomatter what page guests and customers are looking at. Strange thing is that spiders like googlebot don't have this problem, they show the original url/link. This problem started right after I installed uri mapping.

But... aftersome research I added this rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/includes/templates.*

Now it is solved (for as far as I can see) and CEON uri mapping is still working ok. The link that guests are looking at are also the links that are created by uri mapping. Like "bk_fortalit_braadpan_24cm" instead of "index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=560".

When I started designing my template 1,5 year ago I have added a menu from Apple Zen Template and one month ago I added a flash header. I think the menu is causing the problem I descriped. If you want to take a look at my site : Pannenland.nl

The only problem to solve now is that my "home"-button redirects to a category instead of the homepage. But that will come soon.

Hope can do something with this information for future questions en development.

Best regards, Gerjan

[jill8026]

OK, this is by far the best mod I have seen for Zen!!!!!!! Conor...thank you....I have it downloaded and tested it on a product and ez-page and it worked beautifully!!!!!!!!

Now if you can figure out how to achieve checkout without login this easily life would be good as a web designer who loves Zen!!!!

[conor]

Hi,

Thank you for answering. Sorry for my english. It's not perfect and I sometimes have difficulties explaining (technical) problems. Also, I'm not an expert. I observe, read, ask and copy. Sofar it works

Your English is fine, it's just that you were describing the end result but not in enough detail for me to understand what was happening.

That's the problem... it only links to the template directory, nomatter what page guests and customers are looking at. Strange thing is that spiders like googlebot don't have this problem, they show the original url/link. This problem started right after I installed uri mapping.

That's bizarre, I can't think of a single reason that would happen and I can't replicate the problem here!

But... aftersome research I added this rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/includes/templates.*

Now it is solved (for as far as I can see) and CEON uri mapping is still working ok. The link that guests are looking at are also the links that are created by uri mapping. Like "bk_fortalit_braadpan_24cm" instead of "index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=560".

That's good to hear although I'm never comfortable when I don't understand what's happening in the first place!

If anyone else has the same problem I'll do what I can to analyse/debug it.

When I started designing my template 1,5 year ago I have added a menu from Apple Zen Template and one month ago I added a flash header. I think the menu is causing the problem I descriped. If you want to take a look at my site : Pannenland.nl

The only problem to solve now is that my "home"-button redirects to a category instead of the homepage. But that will come soon.

That's not something to do with the module but something to do with whatever is being used to generate that menu.. it is linking to that category instead of the homepage.. it must need the cPath part removed. Unfortunately I can't help with that as I'm not familiar with the software used to generate these menus.

Glad you've got things working now!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[conor]

Hi,

OK, this is by far the best mod I have seen for Zen!!!!!!! Conor...thank you....I have it downloaded and tested it on a product and ez-page and it worked beautifully!!!!!!!!

lol I wouldn't quite say that but I appreciate the enthusiasm and the feedback, it's nice to feel the work on the module's appreciated! :)

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[jill8026]

OK quick question...I installed this mod on a second clients site - the one yesterday went without a hitch....but this site when I redo the EZ-Pages I get this...

http://www.vintagebodyspa.com/produc...s?chapter=0%3B

where it should just be


http://www.vintagebodyspa.com/product-scents

I am not having this issue with the site I did yesterday-they are on the same host and were installed exactly he same way? Any thoughts how to remove the ending there?!?

THanks again for this awesome mod!