Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[richardr]

I could use some help too, I see that I am supposed to append my htaccess file but not sure what I should replace, could someone let me know what lines to cut to replace please.

Thanks,

here is what I currently have in my htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName aprons4you.com
AuthUserFile /home/apronsy1/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/apronsy1/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^aprons4you.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.aprons4you.net$
RewriteRule ^.*$ "http\:\/\/aprons4you\.com\/" [R=301,L]


# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Change "/zencart/ to the correct setting
# if your site is located at root folder, then you should have RewriteBase /
# Go to your include/configure.php, this value should be the same with the value of DIR_WS_CATALOG
RewriteBase /zencart/

# Deny access from .htaccess
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .* - [L]

RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]
#### EOF SSU

I know that goes in there somewhere but I can't figure where, also, my site is www.aprons4you.com, so i'm not sure why it's pointing to aprons4you.net??? I do own that and it's pointed here as well but that is not the parent url?

Thanks,

just a re-post I still need help if available

[yellow1912]

Thanks for pointing that out. For the 3 issues I am not sure what to do. I know google is not indexing all my pages. Out of 2189 pages they are indexing something like 419


Before you rush to your ftp client to apply the new code, I have a big warning for you: the code suggested there should NOT be used, in my opinion.

Read more: http://blog.rubikintegration.com/200...#ixzz0VexTY5OB

Just a note, Google 99% of the time will not index all your links, so to make sure Google indexes your most important pages is a SEO art (which can be learned, of course)

[countrycharm]

Just a note, Google 99% of the time will not index all your links, so to make sure Google indexes your most important pages is a SEO art (which can be learned, of course)

Well I bet you are the the one that could teach me that art.....lol
Lead me in the right direction Raine

[yellow1912]

Well I bet you are the the one that could teach me that art.....lol
Lead me in the right direction Raine

http://www.seomoz.org/ is the right place for you to learn all that sort of things.

But in short, you want to make sure you want to present the most important links to the search engines FIRST. For example, if you have some links that the search engines need to go through several sub-pages to grab them then the chances are high that they can be ignored. A good example in our case is:

Home page -> category -> sub cat level 1 -> sub cat level 2 -> then go to page 12 of the category listing page -> product link

You can see in our case the search engines need to go through more than 10 pages to eventually get to our product page.
(think of how you normally go to this specific product, search engines have to do the same, and they can't use the search feature btw)

[dontknowwhatimdoing]

Thanks for the reply yellow. IT does make absolute sense that something must be wrong with my html_output.php if my URLs are not being re-written internally. As always, you're amazing, thank you so much for writing this mod. I really think Zen Cart needs to make this mod part of their standard cart in the future (once this mod is done). In fact, maybe they should hire you! :)

[countrycharm]

http://www.seomoz.org/ is the right place for you to learn all that sort of things.

But in short, you want to make sure you want to present the most important links to the search engines FIRST. For example, if you have some links that the search engines need to go through several sub-pages to grab them then the chances are high that they can be ignored. A good example in our case is:

Home page -> category -> sub cat level 1 -> sub cat level 2 -> then go to page 12 of the category listing page -> product link

You can see in our case the search engines need to go through more than 10 pages to eventually get to our product page.
(think of how you normally go to this specific product, search engines have to do the same, and they can't use the search feature btw)

Thanks I will check it out soon and try to learn some of this stuff.

[starruby]

Hi Raine,

I am faced with problems in resetting the SSU cache. It takes ages and ages and then shows a timeout page. Is there any way to fix this or manually reset cache?

Regards,
Harshil

[yellow1912]

Hi Raine,

I am faced with problems in resetting the SSU cache. It takes ages and ages and then shows a timeout page. Is there any way to fix this or manually reset cache?

Regards,
Harshil

There is a newer (have been tested on a few sites but not official yet) version posted in the previous 1 or 2 pages, if you want to you can try it out. It will still take time to clear cache if your server is slow, but it wont time out since it uses javascript to reload.

[richardr]

so nobody is familiar with the htaccess file? That being the case, what is the easiest way to uninstall this?

[hparrish]

Hello everyone. I must admit that I am new to Zen Cart and I am trying to figure out why this simple SEO URL will not work for the template that I bought. I have read all of the FAQs and I have read the instructions. However; nowhere in my files to I have anything remotely close to the .htaccess file or any admin extras for that matter. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME!!! This is very confusing to me. I have been in SEO/SEM for 8 years and this one really stumps me. I actually had templatemonster.com tell me not to worry about the long string url. I want a clean URL. Please assist.

Thank you.