Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[ShirleyUJest]

All I had to do was remove the !
so the rewrite condition reads:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog [NC]

Now I can access my blog.
www.blog.rondajane.com

Wishing you all success!
Ronda

P.S. Don't forget to bless Conor with a donation for his time.

Okay - PLEASE FORGIVE AND DISREGARD THE ABOVE. It gave me access to the blog but not the zen cart

What I had to do was put an .htaccess file in the blog subdomain that simply said:

Rewrite engine off

Hope I didn't confuse anyone but if you have your zen cart loaded on your root domain and you would like to have a blog or forum or anything else, then you can create a subdomain and create an .htaccess file in that subdomain.

All this .htaccess stuff is new to me.

Blessings.
Ronda
http://blog.rondajane.com
http://rondajane.com

[jdr8271]

Does anyone know if this module works with Fast and easy checkout. Thank you.

[conor]

Hi,

Does anyone know if this module works with Fast and easy checkout. Thank you.

FEC is a poorly written module, so I don't recommend using it on any store, but many sites (hundreds) are indeed using it fine with Ceon URI Mapping.

Sites also seems to be using it with the even-worse-written AJAX version but I recently tried to help someone with integrating this with Ceon URI Mapping and although we could get most of it to work by adding some exclusions, we weren't able to get the Easy Sign up and Login functionality working perfectly.

Saying that though, this was my first experience with the Easy Sign up and Login functionality and it was a terrible one.. why anyone would put their customers through that I don't know.. I personally think it could only damage a store's sales as people will be put off by the large number of fields displayed on one page. I certainly found it an intimidating form to fill in. And that's before I encountered the problem of it constantly asking me to "pick a state from the dropdown" when it wasn't displaying a dropdown! A very frustrating experience.

So.. my recommendation is if you're going to use FEC, use the better normal version, not the AJAX version.

Anyone else here have any experience with these modules?

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

I had always used Clyde Jones' awesome "Order Steps - Tableless" mod for ALL my clients so that the checkout page was cleaner and more intuitive looking for customers..

However, I had 1 or 2 clients who felt that signing up for a store account was confusing or intimidating for customers and wanted to look into the possibility of offering these customers an option of checking out without an account. The earlier versions of the COWOA mod had it's own set of issues which made it an undesireable solution for me to rollout to my clients. So I began looking into FEC as an option since it included the COWOA option.

I've not implented FEC on any of my client's sites, but I have been doing some extensive testing of it on my test site for a while now..

Ultimately once I got it all setup and working (sort of), my clients didn't like it at all.. In particular they did not like the WAY it looked.. They preferred the look and feel that the "Order Steps - Tableless" gave the checkout pages over the FEC look and feel..

For my side of things, I was concerned with the sheer number of new files that FEC included.. I also discovered that there are some conflicts with other mods (most notably the current version of the Gift Wrap mod), and frankly I found the whole "one screen" look not only a LOT more intimidating looking than the normal checkout, but it was a bit of a challenge to make this "one screen" layout look good with certain store layouts/templates...

Also with regards to the included Super Orders files, I had to do a fair amount of work to get it updated and merged with the latest version of Super Orders. Not to mention that the required changes to orders.php and packingslip.php were not all carried over exactly the same way to their Super Orders counterparts. There was no invoice.php with the FEC code so I had to create it and it's Super Orders counterpart super_invoice.php.

Attempting to integrate other checkout mods such as "Add Shipping Telephone" was a nightmare, and I never REALLY got it all working as it should..

All this said, I haven't yet tried throwing in Ceon URI Mapping to the mix yet, but I can already see that this will not be a happy marriage..

So now that COWOA is updated and supposed to be improved, I am going to give that a looksee.. The new versions seem to have worked out all the kinks from the earlier versions that turned me off of this mod.. AND on the surface it looks like it will play nice with Ceon URI Mapping..

My only "beef" with COWOA is the fact that it bundles in the "Order Steps - Tableless" mod. It's not that I am NOT a fan of this mod (I think I established that I am), I am just not a fan of mods which bundle in other mods as part of the core base.. It forces people to use a mod they MAY NOT want to use, AND IMHO it makes updates to COWOA twice as tedious for the mod authors because they not only have to keep up with Zen Cart changes, but they also have to keep up with changes to the bundled in mods as well..

That said my next client demo will be COWOA, Order Steps - Tableless, Add Shipping Telephone, and FINALLY Ceon URI Mapping.. I think this will be the combo my client's will like.. (and the combo that will give me the least amount of headaches)

Hi,



FEC is a poorly written module, so I don't recommend using it on any store, but many sites (hundreds) are indeed using it fine with Ceon URI Mapping.

Sites also seems to be using it with the even-worse-written AJAX version but I recently tried to help someone with integrating this with Ceon URI Mapping and although we could get most of it to work by adding some exclusions, we weren't able to get the Easy Sign up and Login functionality working perfectly.

Saying that though, this was my first experience with the Easy Sign up and Login functionality and it was a terrible one.. why anyone would put their customers through that I don't know.. I personally think it could only damage a store's sales as people will be put off by the large number of fields displayed on one page. I certainly found it an intimidating form to fill in. And that's before I encountered the problem of it constantly asking me to "pick a state from the dropdown" when it wasn't displaying a dropdown! A very frustrating experience.

So.. my recommendation is if you're going to use FEC, use the better normal version, not the AJAX version.

Anyone else here have any experience with these modules?

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[atl2rva]

Thank you for the great mod. I am using this on another site without issue. However, I am working on another site that is still using a temporary IP. Whenever I enter the information into my .htaccess file my whole site gets a 404. My site can be accessed at http://74.220.219.69/~eclipset/ . I currently taken out the info in the .htaccess but this is what I had entered while it was crashing.

RewriteEngine On

# Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-z]{2,5}$ [NC]
# Don't rewrite admin directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/zc_admin [NC]
# Don't rewrite editors directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors [NC]
# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/frontend [NC]
# Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (index.php)
RewriteRule .* index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

*also forgot to mention I have the mod disabled atm until I figure out why it is breaking my site.

[digitalvision]

I'm afraid that I haven't used those mods so I can't give an exact comparison. I've encountered Ultimate SEO when working on other people's sites and I don't like the way it adds product IDs and category IDs to the URIs it generates.

Ceon

I guess my friend you need to think again to add the product id on the urls.

or at least check if the url its generating is unique on the system.

I have a computer store and there is many product and they have same name. So when your module generates url, they becomes all same instead generating unique url.

As a result on search result i can see 5 different products, but no matter which one i click they all goes to only one links!

Not sure if this is with my system only...but its an error That I can make sure.

Let me know if you have a solution of this.

Thanks in advance!

[DivaVocals]

And Conor's documentation and support posts in this support thread make it CLEAR that this will create issues with this mod.. All products MUST have a unique name in order for this mod to work correctly..

I guess my friend you need to think again to add the product id on the urls.

or at least check if the url its generating is unique on the system.

I have a computer store and there is many product and they have same name. So when your module generates url, they becomes all same instead generating unique url.

As a result on search result i can see 5 different products, but no matter which one i click they all goes to only one links!

Not sure if this is with my system only...but its an error That I can make sure.

Let me know if you have a solution of this.

Thanks in advance!

[countrycharm]

And Conor's documentation and support posts in this support thread make it CLEAR that this will create issues with this mod.. All products MUST have a unique name in order for this mod to work correctly..

CountryCharm nodes in agreement.

[conor]

Hi,

I guess my friend you need to think again to add the product id on the urls.

Nope, that's a horrible idea and goes against what the software is for. It's not to simply to generate unique URIs, but for you to be in control of your URIs.

or at least check if the url its generating is unique on the system.

I'm adding this into the new version of the software. The user will then be required to change their product name or manually modify the URI, the software will not generate a URI with an arbitrary number attached.

Regardless, you should NEVER have two products in the same category with the same name. How is a blind person supposed to use a site like that?

Don't just think of yourself! :)

I have a computer store and there is many product and they have same name. So when your module generates url, they becomes all same instead generating unique url.

So change the product names to something more sensible (I see no reason products should ever have the same name, two products aren't the same or you'd sell them as one), and regenerate their URIs OR

after you've clicked "Preview", copy the generated URI, go back to the product page, paste the URI in and change it to make it unique (and untick autogenerate) before clicking "Preview" again and then "Update".

That'll have each product having a unique URI.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

Nope, that's a horrible idea and goes against what the software is for. It's not to simply to generate unique URIs, but for you to be in control of your URIs.

**nods in agreement**

As a result on search result i can see 5 different products, but no matter which one i click they all goes to only one links!

Not sure if this is with my system only...but its an error That I can make sure .

and as Conor reminded me.. this mod allows YOU to be in control of your own URI's. If you MUST keep all of these products with the SAME NAME, then you CAN (and SHOULD) change the URI's for the "duplicate" products so that they all have unique URI's.. (It's EASY enough to do..) IMHO this is but ONE of the many reasons why this is the best SEO mod available for Zen Cart, and I for one hope he NEVER changes one of it's key features..