Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

chabbu:

ok, so i've manually updated approx 350 products and am ready to enable this mod. However, I already have indexed content on google. I understand that old links will be redirected to the rewritten ones, but eventually, will google update the old urls and replace them with the rewritten ones, or will I have to resubmit and updated sitemap?

As far as I know, yes, Google will udpate its links to use the new ones. I don't know how long that takes, I have very little SEO experience. Hopefully someone else here can let us know more please? :)

As for the sitemap, I don't see why you shouldn't just resubmit it anyway, but again I have experience of this, I've never used one before.

As I said, hopefully someone with knowledge of these areas will comment.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

As for the sitemap, I don't see why you shouldn't just resubmit it anyway
ceon

Because I'm lazy, and don't want to go through the process of creating one again!

I'll bring this to the attention to the folk in the 'search engine' thread, may be they can comment.

Hi,

chabbu:

Because I'm lazy, and don't want to go through the process of creating one again!

:) I thought maybe it was a point and click thing. Really don't know anything about this one! :)

chabbu:

I'll bring this to the attention to the folk in the 'search engine' thread, may be they can comment.

Please post back here with what you find, in case others have the same question.

Thanks!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Conor, I apologize for my late response.
I had issues that kept me away from my computer.
Your personalized help was above and beyond the call of duty.
You (of course ) fixed the problem.
The mod is working great, and updating all my products was a snap.
I'll paypal you a beer as soon as I make some money!
Thanks again David

chabbu:

will google update the old urls and replace them with the rewritten ones, or will I have to resubmit and updated sitemap?

Thanks

Faz

Yes google will eventually update.
When? It depends on how often their bot visits you.
I'm not an expert but...I believe it is different for all sites. It depends on how often your content changes.

There is a mod that makes writing and submitting your maps very easy. Look for sitemaps xml.
Once installed it's just one click to write and one to submit.
It configurable and you can tell the bot how often you update your site.
Again I'm not an expert but I believe that the bots will "take your word for it" to a degree and check your site according to your recommendations.
David

For some reason, my ez pages are not being rewritten. Any ideas?

Is there some kind of bot-like add-on that will edit every product and save... That way it would be a lot easier for me to have new URI's for all my legacy products..

I'm going to see if i can't pull this off with easy populate & phpmyadmin..

If anyone has an easy way to do it , please let me know...
:smile:

Just wondering if for seo reasons i should add .htm . html or similar to the end of each url, at the moment im leaving it blank e.g /body-kits / alloy-wheels / air-filters, its been live for quite sometime now but google hasnt picked up any of the url's yet, should i have something like /alloy-wheels.html / air-filters.htm etc etc. or would it make absolutly no difference at all. I have added a sitemap.xml and google has accepted it, but that was a few months ago, i would have thought by now by adding the complete url into google it should have at least one find but there is none, all the other sites ive built have had listings showing in search engines within a few weeks, maybe 3 months tops.

Thanks
Ben

Hello,

This is a great mod, and installation was a breeze! Thanks so much for all your hard work on it.

I have converted a couple of categories and products, however, the cPath ID is still displaying in the products. None of them are links; they are all in the categories. I auto-generated the URIs.

Here are the pages I've converted:

http://chickensonline.com/eggs
http://chickensonline.com/eggs/rhode-island-red-eggs?cPath=2
http://chickensonline.com/chickens
http://chickensonline.com/chickens/araconda-chicks?cPath=1
http://chickensonline.com/chickens/rhode-island-red-chicks?cPath=1

Also, is there a way to get the www. in there?

I am using Zen Cart 3.8a.

Thanks!
Karen

Hi, Karen again,

I went forward with editing the EZ Pages URIs, and I'm having a lot of trouble with them. My Contact Us is being rewritten (with some trouble), but the rewrite only works in the header and footer links, not in the sidebox link.

I can't get the privacy or conditions pages to rewrite at all. One of my product categories isn't rewriting as smoothly as the other one. When you hover over "Chickens" in the header or footer, you see the old URI with all the parameters, but when you click on it, you go to http://chickensonline.com/chickens. For "Eggs", when you hover over it, you see http://chickensonline.com/eggs and that is where you go if you click. That method of rewrite is friendlier for the search engines. They are both set up exactly the same way, so I don't understand the difference. In the sidebox, you see the old URIs for all the items when you hover (but they go to the new URIs).

The only thing that could be different for the "Eggs" link in the header is that when I first started editing, I edited a couple of products under Chickens before I edited Chickens itself. That's the only thing I can think of that is different. I'm not sure how to fix the sidebox issue.

Thank you so much for your help! I'm doing this site for my son's new business, and he needs all the help he can get with ranking.

Sorry to keep posting, but I read back further in this thread, and I saw another post about the URI displaying the long URI when hovering, and sure enough, I had installed html_output.php in the wrong directory! So now my hover URIs are correct.

Sorry for not seeing this sooner. (I'm still trying to figure out the other problems though.)

Thanks,
Karen

OK, now I'm really stumped. After moving the html_output.php file into the correct directory, I get these errors when I try to open the admin console.

Warning: require(includes/functions/html_output.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chickens/public_html/admin/includes/init_includes/init_general_funcs.php on line 33

Warning: require(includes/functions/html_output.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chickens/public_html/admin/includes/init_includes/init_general_funcs.php on line 33

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions/html_output.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/chickens/public_html/admin/includes/init_includes/init_general_funcs.php on line 33

A little background--at first, I put the html_output.php file in the admin/includes/functions directory instead of includes/functions. Everything broke when I moved it (well not everything, just the admin console). Then I tried placing another copy of html_output.php in the admin/includes/functions/ directory to see if that would patch the problem, but then when I try to get to the admin console, I get the index page (with the long URI). So I removed the file from that directory again.

Have I totally destroyed my installation by placing that file in the wrong place initially? Is there a way I can fix this? It was working somewhat before, with the problems described in previous posts, but I could still get to the admin console.

Thanks so much for your help! I obviously won't be doing any more work on this until I get some feedback since I seem to be making it worse with everything I've tried so far. :oops:

Thanks,
Karen

For all those out there with AJAX Banner Swapper installed but not working when Ceon URI Mapper is installed (and enabled) - I found that by commenting out one line in init_includes/init_ceon_uri_mapping.php made the banners display again:

Around line 410

if (MISSING_PAGE_CHECK == 'On' || MISSING_PAGE_CHECK == 'true') {
$_GET['main_page'] = 'index';
} elseif (MISSING_PAGE_CHECK == 'Page Not Found') {

// Comment the following line out
// header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');

$_GET['main_page'] = 'page_not_found';
}

Not sure of the impact of this yet, however I discovered using Firebug that the XML page sent by the ajax banner server php script was being reported as 404, however the content was still being sent by the server...

If this helps anyone solve this problem, please let me know.

Chris

kfarrell:

OK, now I'm really stumped. After moving the html_output.php file into the correct directory, I get these errors when I try to open the admin console.

Warning: require(includes/functions/html_output.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chickens/public_html/admin/includes/init_includes/init_general_funcs.php on line 33

Warning: require(includes/functions/html_output.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chickens/public_html/admin/includes/init_includes/init_general_funcs.php on line 33

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions/html_output.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/chickens/public_html/admin/includes/init_includes/init_general_funcs.php on line 33

> 
> A little background--at first, I put the html_output.php file in the admin/includes/functions directory instead of includes/functions. Everything broke when I moved it (well not everything, just the admin console). Then I tried placing another copy of html_output.php in the admin/includes/functions/ directory to see if that would patch the problem, but then when I try to get to the admin console, I get the index page (with the long URI). So I removed the file from that directory again.

I fixed that problem. It seems that there was already an html_output.php file in the /admin/includes/functions/ directory, and I had overwritten and then deleted it. Oops. I went back to my original Zen-Cart zip and re-uploaded that file, and everything is fine.

However, I have two remaining issues:

1. I can't edit or delete an EzPage item. I tried re-uploading the ezpages.php file (just in case), but that didn't help.
2. I would like to add the www. in front of my URIs, but I don't know where to configure that option.

Thanks so much for this mod! It is a lifesaver and a great mod, even with all my mess-ups! Looking forward to getting the site indexed on Google now with SEO friendly URLs! Thanks!

kfarrell:

However, I have two remaining issues:

2. I can't edit or delete an EzPage item. I tried re-uploading the ezpages.php file (just in case), but that didn't help.

3. I would like to add the www. in front of my URIs, but I don't know where to configure that option.

Actually, I now found several more issues. If you click on Tell a Friend or Write a Review from a product page, you get a blank page. These URLs are being rewritten--I saw them in phpMyAdmin, and they appear to be going to the correct page ID.

Also, not only can I not add, edit, or delete EZ-Pages, I can't add categories either (though I can edit them), and one of my categories displays a blank page.

There is a blank page on http://chickensonline.com/rabbits

But you **can **see the subpage http://chickensonline.com/rabbits/lion-heads

I haven't tried deleting categories since I can't add them back. When I try to add a category, edit, add, or delete an EZ-Page, I am returned to the main screen of the console.

Please forgive my ignorance--I am new to this software and Zen-Cart and no PHP expert either. However, I would be eternally grateful if one of you gurus could help me figure out where I went wrong. Please help! :frusty:

Thanks,
Karen

Hi Ben,

ben harry:

Just wondering if for seo reasons i should add .htm . html

No, you shouldn't add any extensions. It won't affect your SEO and it's recommended practice (by Tim Berners Lee who created the web) to not indicate the technology used to serve pages in the URI of the page itself (i.e the .htm or .html) if at all possible.

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

kfarrell:

I fixed that problem. It seems that there was already an html_output.php file in the /admin/includes/functions/ directory, and I had overwritten and then deleted it. Oops. I went back to my original Zen-Cart zip and re-uploaded that file, and everything is fine.

Yes, that's what you needed to do!

kfarrell:

However, I have two remaining issues:

2. I can't edit or delete an EzPage item. I tried re-uploading the ezpages.php file (just in case), but that didn't help
   I'm afraid I don't know what you've done wrong there.

kfarrell:

2. I would like to add the www. in front of my URIs, but I don't know where to configure that option.
   You can change that in your includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php files.. change the address of your site so that it includes www.

Glad you like the module!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi Chris,

baz4096:

If this helps anyone solve this problem, please let me know.

That doesn't sound like a good fix. If you are getting 404 errors with an xml file then you should add in an appropriate rewrite rule condition to exclude that file from the rewrite, not break the code to compensate for it!

Make sure you are using the latest version of the module and the example rewrite rule in its docs (which doesn't rewrite anything ending in .xml, .php etc.).

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

I'm afraid I don't know what you've done wrong there.

You can change that in your includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php files.. change the address of your site so that it includes www.

Glad you like the module!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Thanks so much for the reply and the advice! I did what you said with the configure files; however, nothing changed with the URIs. And I'm really at a loss with what to do with my admin console.

I still can't edit or delete (or I assume add) an EZ-Page except directly through the database with phpMyAdmin. I can add products--just tested that. I can edit products and categories, so we're good there, and most everything else is already set up, so I supposed I could just leave it broken, but... Do you or anyone you know do custom "repair" work--for a fee of course! I'm wondering if the non-change in the URIs and the broken EZPages are related.

BTW, is the admin/includes/configure.php file supposed to be read only? Mine is.

Thanks so very much for your help and your module!
Karen

Uh Oh... Now I can't log in to the admin console at all. I was in, and everything was fine--I didn't even change anything, then I got logged out and I can't log back in. I tried adding a new admin user in the database, but that user can't log in either.

Any ideas? (The public site is still up--all this chaos is happening on the admin side and started right after I finished installing the module and realized I had put that html_output.php file in the wrong place and then moved it back to the right place.)

Thanks for your help!
Karen