Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

ok, so i've manually updated approx 350 products and am ready to enable this mod. However, I already have indexed content on google. I understand that old links will be redirected to the rewritten ones, but eventually, will google update the old urls and replace them with the rewritten ones, or will I have to resubmit and updated sitemap?

As far as I know, yes, Google will udpate its links to use the new ones. I don't know how long that takes, I have very little SEO experience. Hopefully someone else here can let us know more please? :)

As for the sitemap, I don't see why you shouldn't just resubmit it anyway, but again I have experience of this, I've never used one before.

As I said, hopefully someone with knowledge of these areas will comment.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[chabbu]

As for the sitemap, I don't see why you shouldn't just resubmit it anyway
ceon

Because I'm lazy, and don't want to go through the process of creating one again!

I'll bring this to the attention to the folk in the 'search engine' thread, may be they can comment.

[conor]

Hi,

Because I'm lazy, and don't want to go through the process of creating one again!

:) I thought maybe it was a point and click thing. Really don't know anything about this one! :)

I'll bring this to the attention to the folk in the 'search engine' thread, may be they can comment.

Please post back here with what you find, in case others have the same question.

Thanks!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[australican]

Conor, I apologize for my late response.
I had issues that kept me away from my computer.
Your personalized help was above and beyond the call of duty.
You (of course ) fixed the problem.
The mod is working great, and updating all my products was a snap.
I'll paypal you a beer as soon as I make some money!
Thanks again David

[australican]

will google update the old urls and replace them with the rewritten ones, or will I have to resubmit and updated sitemap?

Thanks

Faz

Yes google will eventually update.
When? It depends on how often their bot visits you.
I'm not an expert but...I believe it is different for all sites. It depends on how often your content changes.

There is a mod that makes writing and submitting your maps very easy. Look for sitemaps xml.
Once installed it's just one click to write and one to submit.
It configurable and you can tell the bot how often you update your site.
Again I'm not an expert but I believe that the bots will "take your word for it" to a degree and check your site according to your recommendations.
David

[chabbu]

For some reason, my ez pages are not being rewritten. Any ideas?

[edwardtilbury]

Is there some kind of bot-like add-on that will edit every product and save... That way it would be a lot easier for me to have new URI's for all my legacy products..

I'm going to see if i can't pull this off with easy populate & phpmyadmin..

If anyone has an easy way to do it , please let me know...

[ben harry]

Just wondering if for seo reasons i should add .htm . html or similar to the end of each url, at the moment im leaving it blank e.g /body-kits / alloy-wheels / air-filters, its been live for quite sometime now but google hasnt picked up any of the url's yet, should i have something like /alloy-wheels.html / air-filters.htm etc etc. or would it make absolutly no difference at all. I have added a sitemap.xml and google has accepted it, but that was a few months ago, i would have thought by now by adding the complete url into google it should have at least one find but there is none, all the other sites ive built have had listings showing in search engines within a few weeks, maybe 3 months tops.

Thanks
Ben

[kfarrell]

Hello,

This is a great mod, and installation was a breeze! Thanks so much for all your hard work on it.

I have converted a couple of categories and products, however, the cPath ID is still displaying in the products. None of them are links; they are all in the categories. I auto-generated the URIs.

Here are the pages I've converted:

http://chickensonline.com/eggs
http://chickensonline.com/eggs/rhode...d-eggs?cPath=2
http://chickensonline.com/chickens
http://chickensonline.com/chickens/a...chicks?cPath=1
http://chickensonline.com/chickens/r...chicks?cPath=1

Also, is there a way to get the www. in there?

I am using Zen Cart 3.8a.

Thanks!
Karen

[kfarrell]

Hi, Karen again,

I went forward with editing the EZ Pages URIs, and I'm having a lot of trouble with them. My Contact Us is being rewritten (with some trouble), but the rewrite only works in the header and footer links, not in the sidebox link.

I can't get the privacy or conditions pages to rewrite at all. One of my product categories isn't rewriting as smoothly as the other one. When you hover over "Chickens" in the header or footer, you see the old URI with all the parameters, but when you click on it, you go to http://chickensonline.com/chickens. For "Eggs", when you hover over it, you see http://chickensonline.com/eggs and that is where you go if you click. That method of rewrite is friendlier for the search engines. They are both set up exactly the same way, so I don't understand the difference. In the sidebox, you see the old URIs for all the items when you hover (but they go to the new URIs).

The only thing that could be different for the "Eggs" link in the header is that when I first started editing, I edited a couple of products under Chickens before I edited Chickens itself. That's the only thing I can think of that is different. I'm not sure how to fix the sidebox issue.

Thank you so much for your help! I'm doing this site for my son's new business, and he needs all the help he can get with ranking.