Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[philip937]

Not sure if anyone else has this problem but here goes.

Some how I have ended up with a load of duplicate urls within google.

the format is as follows,

The actual page would be:
www.mysite.co.uk/category
Google had also indexed
www/mysite.co.uk/index/category

I think it might have been caused from having page not found set to redirect to home page maybe.

This causes two problems I have found

both urls above point to same content

unless content is no longer there and now, regardless of the fact I know have show 404 not found page switched on www/mysite.co.uk/index/category will redirect to my homepage. infact /index/"anything_that_doesnt_exist" will redirect to my homepage. Thus me ending up with about 100+ URLS pointing to my homepage ouch... not good

Not pointing fingers as im sure there is probably somewhere advising what settings to have the 404 set to that I didnt read.

Is this a know problem where /index/"anything_that_doesnt_exist" redirects to main page as opposed to showing 404 not found??

Beginning whats going to be a lengthy repair job with over 1000 unwanted urls on google now

Hope someone can help / advise. In the mean time I have added Disallow: /index/ in my robots.txt file..

[countrycharm]

Hi countrycharm, I think you can just ignore my post. I had finally figured that I had missed the part to turn on the configuration. Huh.... really a big mistake that I have overlooked. Anyway, really thanks for all the helps from this forum!

Glad you worked it out.

[istilah]

Using Zen Cart Version 1.38a

Having some issues with Sitemap, showing only products in 1 language, instead of all 3.
Want to try updating SSU from 3.7.1 to 3.8.3, to see if this makes a difference, so I downloaded a copy from eazycommerce.

Updating was successfull, but in admin I get a warning missing: includes/classes/ri_template.php on the page admin/ssu.php.
This file was not in the zip. This way I am not able to clear my cache.

Does anyone have a copy of this file for me?

Thanks in advance,
Ronald

[llynix]

Using Zen Cart Version 1.38a

Having some issues with Sitemap, showing only products in 1 language, instead of all 3.
Want to try updating SSU from 3.7.1 to 3.8.3, to see if this makes a difference, so I downloaded a copy from eazycommerce.

Updating was successfull, but in admin I get a warning missing: includes/classes/ri_template.php on the page admin/ssu.php.
This file was not in the zip. This way I am not able to clear my cache.

Does anyone have a copy of this file for me?

Thanks in advance,
Ronald

Update module manager as well

[JaniceNG]

Hi countrycharm,

I am having a problem here. Before I turn on the SSU, my webpage was found with robots.txt and XML sitemap, just like it had reported at http://www.woorank.com/en/www/yourpreciousgifts.com

But after I turned on the SSU, my webpage robots.txt and SML sitemap was reported not existed. Can I know how to rectify this?
What excatly happened after the URL changed and how doest it affect the SERP?

[philip937]

Please help.

Can't seem to find a work around.

I was indexed on google Prior to installing Simple SEO.

After installing Simple SEO google then indexed my new urls.

However the old urls are still there pointing back to the same content.

I cant get google to remove the urls because one they need to return a 404 not found.

Has anyone experienced simplilar duplicate content issues due to simple seo??

Any solutions?

Regards
Phil

[countrycharm]

Hi countrycharm,

I am having a problem here. Before I turn on the SSU, my webpage was found with robots.txt and XML sitemap, just like it had reported at http://www.woorank.com/en/www/yourpreciousgifts.com

But after I turned on the SSU, my webpage robots.txt and SML sitemap was reported not existed. Can I know how to rectify this?
What excatly happened after the URL changed and how doest it affect the SERP?

Do you have this at the top of your robots.txt?
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.your.com/sitemapindex.xml

Do you have SitemapXML (formerly "Google Sitemap") installed, if so have you updated your map. In admin/configuration/Sitemap XML under Use Existing Files have you set that to false so it will update your map each time you add products? This would be the only thing that would cause that. Once Simple Seo is installed Google will start deleting the old urls you had before you installed seo.

[countrycharm]

Please help.

Can't seem to find a work around.

I was indexed on google Prior to installing Simple SEO.

After installing Simple SEO google then indexed my new urls.

However the old urls are still there pointing back to the same content.

I cant get google to remove the urls because one they need to return a 404 not found.

Has anyone experienced simplilar duplicate content issues due to simple seo??

Any solutions?

Regards
Phil

Google will delete them, it takes time. Nothing to worry about.

[neboztik]

hello, thx for this fantastic contrib. I have few questions about this mod. First of all I wonder if there is any way how to add own product type (for example book product type). Now I am getting urls like this: mysite/product_info_hry/cat/product.

I also have some troubles with specific symbols for czech language. I have moved from pre 3.6 version which has been working fine. I am now on 3.8.3, I eddited cz.php, tried both - classic symbols á, é, even symbols with &amps; and also used different collate for document. I also have made my own config. file but nothing seems to be working. I am running monolangual shop.

Thx in advance for every help!

[pascal020]

I want to remove simple SEO but the uninstall sql query is not working.

51&q=SET&lr=lang_en">SET @t4=0;
51&q=SELECT&lr=lang_en">SELECT (@t4:=configuration_group_id) 51&q=AS&lr=lang_en">as t4
51&q=FROM&lr=lang_en">FROM configuration_group
51&q=WHERE&lr=lang_en">WHERE configuration_group_title= 'Simple SEO URL';
51&q=DELETE&lr=lang_en">DELETE 51&q=FROM&lr=lang_en">FROM configuration 51&q=WHERE&lr=lang_en">WHERE configuration_group_id = @t4;
51&q=DELETE&lr=lang_en">DELETE 51&q=FROM&lr=lang_en">FROM configuration_group 51&q=WHERE&lr=lang_en">WHERE configuration_group_id = @t4;
51&q=DROP&lr=lang_en">DROP 51&q=TABLE&lr=lang_en">TABLE 5.1/en/control-flow-functions.html">IF 51&q=EXISTS&lr=lang_en">EXISTS links_aliases;

I'm getting this error:

1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '&lr=lang_en">SET @t4=0' at line 1
in:
[SET&lr=lang_en">SET @t4=0;]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

Any advise?

Thanks