Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

I'm already using CEON URI Mapping module for my zencart. But now i want to modify it like:

http://solutioninn.com/Physics/product_id

instead of

http://solutioninn.com/Physics/Product_Title

Please help me with this modification part.

You'll have to go in and manually update/enter your URIs with their product IDs.. the autogeneration doesn't support IDs.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

When spider testing my site some of the links ex: and ezpages show zenid: followed by a bunch of characters. I cant seem to get those to change to just say /contact-us what might I be doing wrong.
thx in advance

That's the Zen Cart session ID. Zen Cart handles that, it's nothing to do with the URI Mapping module. I think search engines ignore session IDs so I think you can just ignore this.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

automagically lol....
Yes I have gone into each product checked the box for the rewrite however it doesnt seem to do it on any of the "ezpages"
It seems to work fine on the product pages.

It sounds like you have missed uploading the files from the admin folder in the modified_core_files folder. Please reupload all the files and you should see the boxes for adding URIs to EZ-Pages.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

I just added the following to my .htaccess file and it still doesn't work. Is ther eanything else I need to change?

"It doesn't work" isn't very helpful!

Please try installing the module from scratch again (repeat the entire process). If you are getting a blank page, then search this forum for "blank page" and follow the instructions for enabling error reporting.. that'll give you a better idea of what you've done wrong. 9 times out of 10 it's simply that a file or two hasn't been uploaded or the FTP software has messed up uploading a file.

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[websightdesign]

Hi,



You should check the code of your site. It sounds like you have something wrong with your search pages.

The module normally makes two SQL calls when mapping a page.

It makes a single SQL call per generation of a link on the site to a product/category/manufacturer EZ page.

It makes 2 SQL calls for a link to any other Zen Cart page.

I fail to see how that could add a significant load to your site. Unless you are generating hundreds of links on a page (a massive search index or something?!).

Unfortunately there's no worthwhile way to make the module faster.. so if you are still having those problems you should try and reduce the number of links generated on your site or upgrade to a better server which doesn't take so long! (1 minute is ridiculous, pages here are generated in milliseconds!)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

It seems that the problem relates to the css horizontal flyout menu, it must be generating the links for these everytime the page loads but if i remove the ceon mod it generates the link using the seo mod no problem. Any ideas how i can get both the ceon mod in and working with the horizontal drop down i have reduced the amount of levels the menu goes to but this is still a little slow.

Thanks
Brad

[captainmorgan]

Hi,



"It doesn't work" isn't very helpful!

Please try installing the module from scratch again (repeat the entire process). If you are getting a blank page, then search this forum for "blank page" and follow the instructions for enabling error reporting.. that'll give you a better idea of what you've done wrong. 9 times out of 10 it's simply that a file or two hasn't been uploaded or the FTP software has messed up uploading a file.

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hmm. Interesting. My website didn't work last night when I went to bed. Now I've checked it this morning and it's working!

[conor]

Hi,

Hmm. Interesting. My website didn't work last night when I went to bed. Now I've checked it this morning and it's working!

That sounds like a fantastic way to get things to work! Do you mind sharing the secret? I'd love to have a bit of a sleep and have things just start working! ;)

Glad to hear everything's alright now!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi Brad,

Any ideas how i can get both the ceon mod in and working with the horizontal drop down i have reduced the amount of levels the menu goes to but this is still a little slow.

I'm afraid not. Either you'll have to adjust how the menu works so it isn't effectively creating a sitemap of your site for every single page load, replace the menu with some less resource intensive code (adding caching for example), or you'll have to upgrade to a better server (hardware's cheap these days! :) ).

Sorry I can't be of more help than that!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

Just to add to this, in my experience, some of these fly-out menus use javascript to drive the menu behavior.. If this is the case for you perhaps a CSS only menu might help.. Not sure what horizontal menu you are using now, but here's some links you might be interested in.

I LOVE this site:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/
This guy has all kinds of CSS only solutions.. VERY cool stuff..

I am using this horizontal menu contrib with Ceon URI with no lag issues whatsoever.
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=479

Hi Brad,



I'm afraid not. Either you'll have to adjust how the menu works so it isn't effectively creating a sitemap of your site for every single page load, replace the menu with some less resource intensive code (adding caching for example), or you'll have to upgrade to a better server (hardware's cheap these days! :) ).

Sorry I can't be of more help than that!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[new2u]

Hi,



That's the Zen Cart session ID. Zen Cart handles that, it's nothing to do with the URI Mapping module. I think search engines ignore session IDs so I think you can just ignore this.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Looking at this article

URL based session id's not only index poorly but they are a security risk. Is there any mod anyone knows of to force these to use cookies? He goes into detail on how to use the .htaaccess file to do this... anyone try it yet?