Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[wagnerguy]

has anyone been able to get woz to work with SSU, i have refresh cache and used the exclude list below. what else can i check to get ssu to work with woz

advanced_search_result,redirect,popup_image_additional,download,wordpress, contest, index.php?main_page=contest,cat

what else can i add?

or is there another problem i should troubleshoot

[wcironsales]

Oh how I agree with you Sonya.

Ok I did all it said and the entire stupid site is not even showing right now. Oh how I long for a mod is all you have to do is upload and files and be done

[VicAvendano]

I noticed the latest version has had a problem processing "+" within url query parameters... Some people have had a problem with store searches with multiple words, and adding the advanced_search to the exclude list helped.

My problem now is I had a + within parameters used for tracking purposes, and this triggers an infinite redirect loop. Hopefully I can figure out how to fix this or a new version will be released soon...

[VicAvendano]

I noticed the latest version has had a problem processing "+" within url query parameters... Some people have had a problem with store searches with multiple words, and adding the advanced_search to the exclude list helped.

My problem now is I had a + within parameters used for tracking purposes, and this triggers an infinite redirect loop. Hopefully I can figure out how to fix this or a new version will be released soon...

Rolled back to version 3.7.1, everything is working fine again.

[alicia130]

I have a question with regards to Simple SEO and disk space.

On a zencart 1.3.8a install with Simple SEO v3.8.3 I am seeing that the cache directory is huge. the ssu directory is 43.91 MB in size which is more than double the disk of the rest of the site including all images. This seems crazy to me.

Is this really what I should be expecting or do I need to dig deeper.

Did you get an answer to this? I have the same issue

[alicia130]

Well here goes nothing. I tried reading thru previous posts and googling to find an answer to this but had no luck. Hopefully someone here knows the answer.

I have version 3.83 of SSU installed and rev18 of module manager installed. I have these installed on both a dev and a prod site. The dev server is accessed by a direct IP, the prod site is a direct thru the www url for the site.

So here's my issue, on the prod site the /cache/ssu folders is HUGE!! So large that deleting the data takes forever, I have taken to renaming the file to /cache_bak when issues arise and just creating a new /cache.

Yesterday, I did this and all my links worked perfectly. Today I come in and 3 or 4 of my categories redirect me back to the home page. I renamed the cache folder again, created a blank new one and then the category links worked again. So confused. I don't want to delete these every night, and have set up the cron job to run nightly, but I'd really like to know what is causing this issue.

SEO config settings:
Hide default language identifier true
Set Category Separator / Info
Set Auto Alias Status true Info
Set SSU Multi Language Status true Info
Set Query Key's Exclude List zenid,gclid,number_of_uploads,number_of_downloads,action,sort,page,disp_order,fi lter_id,alpha_filter_id,currency Info
Set SSU Status true Info
Set maximum name length 0 Info
Set minimum word length 0 Info
Set Link Alias Status true Info
Exclude list advanced_search_result,redirect,popup_image_additional,download,wordpress Info
Set max category level 4 Info
Name delimiter - Info
ID delimiter - Info
File extension Info
Cache reset time 1271350090 Info

.htaccess file -
#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

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

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA]

#### EOF SSU


#redirec www to non www
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^coinmerc\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.coinmerc.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Redirect /cart http://www.coinmerc.com

[g1smd]

There are several serious errors in that .htaccess file.

1. Don't mix Redirect and RewriteRule in the same file. Convert the Redirect rule to use RewriteRule syntax with the [R=301,L] flags.

2. List the 'single' page external redirect as the very first item.

3. List the non-www to www external redirect after the single page redirect.

4. List the internal rewrites after the redirects.

If the order is incorrect, as it is now, then you risk exposing rewritten internal filepaths back out on to the web as new URLs and/or introducing unwanted redirection chains for non-canonical URL requests.

This is important stuff. Incorrect implementation can kill both your indexing and ranking in SERPs, and see your traffic dry up.

See also: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151606

[alicia130]

There are several serious errors in that .htaccess file.

1. Don't mix Redirect and RewriteRule in the same file. Convert the Redirect rule to use RewriteRule syntax with the [R=301,L] flags.

2. List the 'single' page external redirect as the very first item.

3. List the non-www to www external redirect after the single page redirect.

4. List the internal rewrites after the redirects.

If the order is incorrect, as it is now, then you risk exposing rewritten internal filepaths back out on to the web as new URLs and/or introducing unwanted redirection chains for non-canonical URL requests.

This is important stuff. Incorrect implementation can kill both your indexing and ranking in SERPs, and see your traffic dry up.

See also: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151606

Thank you so much for your reply. This is all completely foreign to me. I did read your link and am still a little confused.

Is this correct:
#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/cart /

rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^coinmerc\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.coinmerc.com/$1 [R=301,L]


RewriteBase /

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

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA]

#### EOF SSU

[alicia130]

How about this:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?main_page=page_not_found

RewriteEngine On

# Canonical Redirect non-blank, non-www and/or appended port number to www [EXCLUDE /admin requests]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.coinmerc\.com)?$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.coinmerc.com/$1 [R=301,L]



#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteBase /

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

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA]

#### EOF SSU



I believe it has everything except a redirect when they are following old links with the /cart after the domain name.

[weber]

i have this weird problem

in product listing page, the page navigation links, 2 3 4 5,
the link are correct, like http://test.local/test-cate?sort=20a&page=2
however, after click it become
http://test.local/air-jordan-1-i?sort=20a&page=2-p-36
and page 3 become
http://test.local/air-jordan-1-i?sort=20a&page=2-p-37

thus i can not view the other pages

ssu 3.7.1
zen cart 1.38a