Ultimate SEO URLs

hmmm. You are right. On my site, when i turn off Ultimate SEO the problem goes away. Any other thoughts?

mprough:

It has ZERO to do with Ultimate.... load this page ```
http://pencraftcreations.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search&keyword=asdfasfsaf&search_in_description=1&inc_subcat=0&sort=20a

> Then hit the search button... and you will see this.
> ![](http://prominentpets.com/images/special/Image1.jpg)
> Same thing here```
http://prominentpets.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search&keyword=fffff&search_in_description=1&inc_subcat=0&sort=20a

The reason is you are loading the resulting page directly and not with an active session..... So no alert.

~Melanie

tekram:

hmmm. You are right. On my site, when i turn off Ultimate SEO the problem goes away. Any other thoughts?

It is not a problem as customers can only access the result page by searching, in which case the alert is displayed.

~Melanie

Hi there,
I just installed Ultimate SEO and everything is working fine.
One of the reasons I'm using this was the hopes that I could incorporate my file upload program into page_2.
This file upload script runs under my cgi-bin folder.
In my page_2 file, I've added a call to this script using:

<?PHP virtual("/cgi-bin/filechucker.cgi"); ?>

This call works inside ZenCart using a test folder and file...so I think I'm on the right path, however because I was getting ~index.php?main_page=page_2 without the php extention (~index.php?main_page=page_2.php) I think the above call wasn't working.
My questions is how can I change the .htaccess folder to either give me a *.php or *.shtml extention for page_2 only?

Thanks

Remove page_2 from the urls to rewrite in Ultimate under configuration.

Then rewrite it separately to include the .php extension.

~Melanie

I'm getting a little confused by the RewriteRule, should it look something like this:

RewriteRule ^newcart/index.php?main_page=page_2.php$ index.php?main_page=page_2 [L]

Hi Melanie,
I just edited that file to include that line.

Now do i need to change the "index, follow" back to "noindex, nofollow", or can i leave it?

henrytan:

Hi Melanie,
I just edited that file to include that line.

Now do i need to change the "index, follow" back to "noindex, nofollow", or can i leave it?
You must restore the html_header.php to a proper Zen Cart structure.

~Melanie

Hi Melanie,
I have restored the same html_header.php file back to original. And that means basically what i did was to change "index, follow", back to "noindex, nofollow".

Melanie - you mentioned earlier that the reason for my site not being index is because of this "noindex, nofollow" meta code right? I just refreshed my site and click on view source code and now its back "noindex, nofollow". So my questions is now if i change it back, wouldn't it make my site disappear from index again?

sorry to bother as i really dunno much about this.

thanks in advance

need help, when I create a product-free shipping, the url didn't change to static one, it shows like index.php?main_page=product_free_shipping_info&cPath=9_76&products_id=190

could someone encounter such problem and how to resolve? thanks for any help.

Hi Melanie or any Zencart Masters,
Could anyone advice me on this? i am really confused about this, now that my site files has been fixed according to the instructions given, what i see when i click view source is that "noindex, nofollow" shows up. Will that affect whether my site gets indexed or not?

meetwinter:

need help, when I create a product-free shipping, the url didn't change to static one, it shows like index.php?main_page=product_free_shipping_info&cPath=9_76&products_id=190

could someone encounter such problem and how to resolve? thanks for any help.

Hi Meetwinter,
I hope i can help you here. ( i am also looking for help, as you can see..)

If we are using the same SEO addon, you go to the control panel, under configuration, you should see SEO URL, click there.

My SEO addon is in spanish, not sure about urs. But nvm that, just go the last one, the instructions are "Introduzca las páginas para permitir la reescritura", click edit and add your filename to it, in this case it should be "product_free_shipping", and it should work fine.

Hope it works for you, it works for me. :)

henrytan:

Hi Meetwinter,
I hope i can help you here. ( i am also looking for help, as you can see..)

If we are using the same SEO addon, you go to the control panel, under configuration, you should see SEO URL, click there.

My SEO addon is in spanish, not sure about urs. But nvm that, just go the last one, the instructions are "Introduzca las páginas para permitir la reescritura", click edit and add your filename to it, in this case it should be "product_free_shipping", and it should work fine.

Hope it works for you, it works for me. :)

product_free_shipping_info I think rather..... I will probably not be a fully clean url, but this is the easiest way.

~Melanie

Hi Melanie,
Hope you had a great weekend, was looking to hear from you...

most websites i see do not have the "noindex, nofollow" meta tags.

I really just want my website to be indexed and ranked deserved because i done a lot of SEO work. And i dun want the pages that are not supposed to be indexed, not to be indexed.

can i have some of your advice pls?

henrytan:

Hi Melanie or any Zencart Masters,
Could anyone advice me on this? i am really confused about this, now that my site files has been fixed according to the instructions given, what i see when i click view source is that "noindex, nofollow" shows up. Will that affect whether my site gets indexed or not?
You did not complete either the patch or the complete restoration of your html_header.php.

There is no other way to say it.... FULLY restore your html_header.php from a fresh copy of Zen Cart, walk back through the patch steps.... Check for overridden files too.

You made an error, and YES the noindex, nofollow tag you are again sporting will very certainly de-index the pages again... Very soon.

I have personally performed this bug fix without a hitch of many carts... you made an error.

~Melanie

mprough:

product_free_shipping_info I think rather..... I will probably not be a fully clean url, but this is the easiest way.

~Melanie

Thanks for your two reply, but when I follow the above methods, it shows url like product_free_shipping_info.html?products_id=190&zenid=e4faeed29b7786d64626f8f1c4ed1652

this is not my expected one, normaly I think they should like goods-p-178.html,etc.

any else advice?

I have been using this mod for a few months. I have posted way back about issues with Google sitemaps not indexing the submitted links because of the 301 redirecting. You have mentioned a solution for that issue if I remember correctly. Can you explain more how I can solve this issue. I have more than 5000 links in the sitemap and Google will only index a few links.

Hi there,

I have the following code in my .htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# 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]

All my pages are showing the .html extention...which is great and what I want, however I would like the page_2 and only page_2 to still be .php.
How do I do that?

If I am not mistaken this can be done from your admin panel under configuration>SEO URLs>Enter Page to allow rewrite here you can add and remove pages that you want to rewrite. Don't forget to clear the cache

Ok just installed yesterday. Everything seems to be ok except for one tiny issue. My webhost has a STATS system setup...and it seems as if it is some kind of virtual directory...

https://www.mysite.net/stats

as it doesnt actually exist on my server....

Now since installing USEO when I try and go to the stats page it takes me to FAILED AUTH page not found page...obviously because of these rewrite commands in the .htaccess file...

# 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]

Now is there something I can write to exclude..

http://www.mysite.com/stats from being rewritten.

Im obviously not an .htaccess/rewrite expert...
any help would be greatly appreciated.

Add a .htaccess file to your stats folder containing only 1 line

ReWrite Engine Off

Cheers,
Melanie