Regarding Simple SEO, let me tell you that it works fine, we are only testing for improvements to something that is already in stable state.

While I can appreciate you are trying to help... This is the Ultimate SEO urls thread... Things could get confusing for folks who need help with Ultimate SEO urls :huh:

~Melanie

I have used this mod for over two years on my http://www.oldwestgames.com site and it has worked flawlessly and it was super simple to install.

I recently decided to change the name and domain of my store (http://oldwestpokersupplies.com/) and tried to use "Simple" SEO and it was not simple at all. I had lots of trouble with the installation. You not only have to install the mod but you first have to install a "module manager" so the installation process is very in-depth and has to be completed exactly right. I spent hours and ended up uninstalling it this morning.

Ten minutes after deciding to use Ultimate SEO again it was installed and running. It literally took me ten minutes to install it. Amazing.

I am writing this for that those that are wondering which SEO solution is actually easier to install.

And to inquire about the future of the code and support. Are there any updates about its future?

mafiasam:

I have used this mod for over two years on my http://www.oldwestgames.com site and it has worked flawlessly and it was super simple to install.

I recently decided to change the name and domain of my store (http://oldwestpokersupplies.com/) and tried to use "Simple" SEO and it was not simple at all. I had lots of trouble with the installation. You not only have to install the mod but you first have to install a "module manager" so the installation process is very in-depth and has to be completed exactly right. I spent hours and ended up uninstalling it this morning.

Ten minutes after deciding to use Ultimate SEO again it was installed and running. It literally took me ten minutes to install it. Amazing.

I am writing this for that those that are wondering which SEO solution is actually easier to install.

And to inquire about the future of the code and support. Are there any updates about its future?
I will not comment about the installation process, since each person has his/her own experience, but just a note: you should turn on force redirection in your ssu module. Right now chip-casesss-c-17.htm and chip-cases-c-17.htm send me to the same page, which is not good (what will happen if you rename the category, or if you change the name parse rule?)

Ultimate SEO URL has been abandoned for so long, which is 1 of the reasons why I started writing my own modules. Maybe the author will come back one day, who knows? You can always hope for the best ^_^.

mprough:

While I can appreciate you are trying to help... This is the Ultimate SEO urls thread... Things could get confusing for folks who need help with Ultimate SEO urls :huh:
~Melanie
OK, will keep hush since guru yellow is posting here.

Ive just been testing my site with IE and found that when I click on a product listing it says it cant find the page (html) and that it is aborting. I am using zen 1.3.8a and ultimate seo urls. IE is version 7. Everything is working fine with Firefox 3.03

Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong?

cpath is off, category is on, remove all alphanumeric characters is true.

Did you set the .htaccess correctly? Do you have a link to the site so we can check?

Here's the store. You must be 18+ to enter as it is an adult store

The zen store: http://adarkdesire.com/zen/

The current working store: http://adarkdesire.com/store/

Thanks in advance!

I have an htaccess for the active store, and it's working in ie.

webbydeb:

Here's the store. You must be 18+ to enter as it is an adult store

The zen store: http://adarkdesire.com/zen/

The current working store: http://adarkdesire.com/store/

Thanks in advance!

I have an htaccess for the active store, and it's working in ie.
Did you set the htaccess for the zen store? this file should come with the package, and you should place it right under /zen/

Make sure the file is there, and the content is edited correctly. Post the content of that file here if you need more help.

Here's the htaccess file:

NOTE: Replace /shop/ with the relative web path of your catalog in the "Rewrite Base" line below:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /zen/

From Ultimate SEO URLs

RewriteRule ^(.)-p-(.).html$ index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.)-c-(.).html$ index.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

For Open Operations Info Manager

RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager

RewriteRule ^news/?$ index.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

All other pages

Don't rewrite real files or directories

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Seem to be working now, either you made new changes or the server is just slow to update htaccess rules (which is correct for GoDaddy server)

Nope, ie is still aborting for me. arg.
I've got my own dedicated server with phatservers...ugh godaddy not so much.

Working for me, IE7, which version is your IE?

I see the problem now, seem like it happens only on https pages.
Check your configure.php, must be something wrong with it I guess.

Same, 7. I just cleared all my history, cookies, etc. and I'm still getting the error.

AHHH, okay, it shouldn't be a https page though, just a product info page errors out. I don't have the 's' set up yet.

yellow1912:

I will not comment about the installation process, since each person has his/her own experience, but just a note: you should turn on force redirection in your ssu module. Right now chip-casesss-c-17.htm and chip-cases-c-17.htm send me to the same page, which is not good (what will happen if you rename the category, or if you change the name parse rule?)

Ultimate SEO URL has been abandoned for so long, which is 1 of the reasons why I started writing my own modules. Maybe the author will come back one day, who knows? You can always hope for the best ^_^.

Please explain. Is this a setting in the admin or a file edit?

These are my current settings:

Enable SEO URLs? true
**Add cPath to product URLs? ** false
Add category parent to begining of URLs? true
**Filter Short Words ** 0
Output W3C valid URLs (parameter string)? true
**Enable SEO cache to save queries? ** true
**Enable product cache? ** true
Enable categories cache? true
Enable manufacturers cache? true
Enable articles cache? true
Enable information cache? true
**Enable automatic redirects? ** true
Choose URL Rewrite Type Rewrite
**Enter special character conversions **
Remove all non-alphanumeric characters? false
Reset SEO URLs Cache false
**Enter pages to allow rewrite ** index, product_info, products_new, products_all, featured_products, specials, contact_us, conditions, privacy, reviews, shippinginfo, faqs_all, site_map, gv_faq, discount_coupon, page, page_2, page_3, page_4

Should be this one:
**Enable automatic redirects? ** true

I wonder why it doesnt redirect in this specific case though, maybe you are using an older version? (I believe this module has a beta 3.1 something version, which works for some people and doesnt work very well for others)

I recently took over a web site project from an employee that no longer works here, and have been tasked with figuring out why their new site that we made for them is doing worse off SEO-wise then their old site. Well while I was generating a new sitemap for the site, I discovered one problem; while each product page had a nice SEO friendly url, the menu system that linked to those products used the non-SEO friendly URL that including things like variables etc etc.

If you visit https://www.milesfiberglass.com you can see the website. Click on the products link, and you'll see the menu on that page, on the left side. When you hover over each button, you'll see the ugly "raw" URL's. But if you click on any of those links, you get a product page that loads nice and pretty URL's.

When I go into Zen car, and go Config -> SEO URL's everything seems to be enabled that should be. So I guess my question is, does Ultimate SEO rewrite the menu links as well? I was under the impression that it did. And since it is not, any thoughts as to why it isn't?

Ryan,

I dont think it is a good idea to repost the same thing in more than 1 topics. Plus your question has been answered on the other topic as well.> ryan.armstrong:

I recently took over a web site project from an employee that no longer works here, and have been tasked with figuring out why their new site that we made for them is doing worse off SEO-wise then their old site. Well while I was generating a new sitemap for the site, I discovered one problem; while each product page had a nice SEO friendly url, the menu system that linked to those products used the non-SEO friendly URL that including things like variables etc etc.

If you visit www.milesfiberglass.com you can see the website. Click on the products link, and you'll see the menu on that page, on the left side. When you hover over each button, you'll see the ugly "raw" URL's. But if you click on any of those links, you get a product page that loads nice and pretty URL's.

When I go into Zen car, and go Config -> SEO URL's everything seems to be enabled that should be. So I guess my question is, does Ultimate SEO rewrite the menu links as well? I was under the impression that it did. And since it is not, any thoughts as to why it isn't?

yellow1912:

Should be this one:
**Enable automatic redirects? ** true

I wonder why it doesnt redirect in this specific case though, maybe you are using an older version? (I believe this module has a beta 3.1 something version, which works for some people and doesnt work very well for others)

(btw, by no means was I attempting to slam you or your mod. I was upset with attempting to install the Simple mod. I want to sincerely thank you for your contributions and assistance within the Zen Cart community.)

Does this have anything to do with this setting?

Reset SEO URLs Cache false