Ultimate SEO URLs

Right, I've been playing with this mod for past 2-3 days and really got my nerves... :frusty:
...at some point of the ''experiment'' I couldn't log into catalog admin area...kept reading trough this topic again and again, tried different things all the way...
The result: Finally got this thing working, but when try to ad the the .htaccess this peace of code:

rewritecond %{http_host} ^sinfuldestiny.co.uk [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.sinfuldestiny.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]
everything goes wrong again... I'm getting ''loop redirect'' in the browser and cant access the catalog admin if i'm loged out... :yuck:
Also another thing related with .htaccess , it actually doesnt appear in my root directory when go trough cpanel/file manager...when search for this file the search results showing its present in a few location, but when go there it is not showing up...? when I upload it as htaccess or htaccess_sample it is there and when rename it to .htaccess it is gone :wacko::wacko::wacko:
so what i did, changed the name in ''filezilla'' when uploading an it is ok, still not showing in the cpanel, though...
this file definitely doing a big mess!
any thoughts how to sort out the ''redirect 301''welcomed.
thanks

kubio:

Right, I've been playing with this mod for past 2-3 days and really got my nerves... :frusty:
...at some point of the ''experiment'' I couldn't log into catalog admin area...kept reading trough this topic again and again, tried different thing all the way...
The result: Finally got this thing working, but when try to ad the the .htaccess this peace of code:

everything goes wrong again... I'm getting ''loop redirect'' in the browser and cant access the catalog admin if i'm loged out... :yuck:
Also another thing related with .htaccess , it actually doesnt appear in my root directory when go trough cpanel/file manager...when search for this file the search results shoing its present in a few location, but when go there it is not showing up...? when I upload it as htaccess or htaccess_sample it is there and when rename it to .htaccess it is gone :wacko::wacko::wacko:
so what i did, changed the name in ''filezilla'' when uploading an it is ok, still not showing in the cpanel, though...
this file definitely doing a big mess!
any thoughts how to sort out the ''redirect 301''welcomed.
thanks

The reason you get the loop is that your Zen Cart has been configured NOT to use the www.... and is indexed as such
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asinfuldestiny.co.uk&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

~Melanie

mprough:

The reason you get the loop is that your Zen Cart has been configured NOT to use the www.... and is indexed as such
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asinfuldestiny.co.uk&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

~Melanie

and how can I sort it out? is this the reason I can't log into admin as well?
thanks

kubio:

and how can I sort it out? is this the reason I can't log into admin as well?
thanks
You are fully index w/o the www.... Use a canonical redirect to the NON WWW instead.... Solves all of your issues and reduces the flux you are going to get in Google.

Yes this is why you cannot login to your admin... you can do a quick work around for admin my adding the following syntax to the VERY FIRST LINE of your admin directory htaccess

ReWrite Engine Off

~Melanie

mprough:

You are fully index w/o the www.... Use a canonical redirect to the NON WWW instead.... Solves all of your issues and reduces the flux you are going to get in Google.
Thanks Melanie, can you explain that in idiot proof way, I dont get it, what is ''w/o''?...:wacko:

Yes this is why you cannot login to your admin... you can do a quick work around for admin my adding the following syntax to the VERY FIRST LINE of your admin directory htaccess

ReWrite Engine Off

> 
> ~Melanie
... I just removed that peace of code, i is same effect ?

w/o means without....

You Zen Cart is configured NOT to use the WWW in its urls and is also indexed without it.

The redirect you were trying to perform prevents your urls from displaying without the WWW.... BUT you Zen Cart is configured to use them.

~Melanie

mprough:

You Zen Cart is configured NOT to use the WWW in its urls and is also indexed without it.

~Melanie

got ya now...
and how the ZC can be configured to use the WWW in the URLs?...and do I need to resubmit the site to Google with www. ?..
thanks

To configure ZC to use the www you will edit BOTH configure.php files

includes/configure.php
admin/includes/configure.php

This IS NOT what you should do however.... You are fully indexed without the www and changing this will cause a great bit of flux and possibly temporary deindexing.

Sites use the www or non www and it is the same.... Google and other search engines do not care... The only thing that matters is that you use one or the other and not both.

IF you choose to change to the www, verify your site AGAIN in Google webmasters tools after deleting the current site account and use the www, making sure in setting that you tell Google to use the www. This may reduce the flux a bit... Probably not and I still advise that you proceed to use a non www canonical redirect for this fully indexed site.

~Melanie

mprough:

w/o means without....

You Zen Cart is configured NOT to use the WWW in its urls and is also indexed without it.

The redirect you were trying to perform prevents your urls from displaying without the WWW.... BUT you Zen Cart is configured to use them.

~Melanie

mprough:

To configure ZC to use the www you will edit BOTH configure.php files

includes/configure.php
admin/includes/configure.php

This IS NOT what you should do however.... You are fully indexed without the www and changing this will cause a great bit of flux and possibly temporary deindexing.

Sites use the www or non www and it is the same.... Google and other search engines do not care... The only thing that matters is that you use one or the other and not both.

IF you choose to change to the www, verify your site AGAIN in Google webmasters tools after deleting the current site account and use the www, making sure in setting that you tell Google to use the www. This may reduce the flux a bit... Probably not and I still advise that you proceed to use a non www canonical redirect for this fully indexed site.

~Melanie

Hi again,
thanks for your very competent advices...
the site is less than a month old, so wont be a huge loss if do all that changes I recon (?)...

so how to proceed?
change the includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php files, then go to Google webmaster tools and resubmit the site?... Is that all I need to do?...
thank you

OK, I've decided (following the advice) to leave the site as it is (without the WWW.) so I set redirect from https://www.site.com to site.com
Will have to live with that :D
Anyway, how this can be avoided in future? how this is happened at all, where this wrong indexing coming from?... domain registration, submitting the site to Google, creating the CPanel wrongly, Zen Cart installation configuration???...what I did wrong in this case?
thanks

Your zen cart was configured not to use the www.... and the rest, indexing and such was only Google for example indexing what you gave them.

~Melanie

Hi,

I wish to have a slash (/) between the category and product names in the product urls . Anyone with an idea on how to do it. I read that it is quite important for SEO to have structured urls (with folder kind of structure).

Thanks

Simo

A strange behaviour...

When i search a title and from the search results I add some in my shoppingcart and after that I click on continue shopping, so that the search results are visible from that same title and I add a new product in my shopping cart....do this 2 or 3 times, the new product wont show in the shoppingcart, but the same product as the first buy will show twice in the cart.

Example I search for the term product
My resyults are product 1, product 2, product 3, product 4,etc.
So i click on add to cart for product 1. In my shoppingcart I click on continue shopping I sdee again the results product 1, product 2, product 3, product 4, etc. I buy product2....continue shopping, buy product 3
....now should i have in cart product 1, product 2, product 3, but I have 2xproduct 1 and 1xproduct 2 and no product3

But when i go to the home and search again and buy again, it works well

What is that strange behaviour with continu shopping and search....I've tested on more shops....same problem

When i disable SEF (ultimate_seo_urls_2-107), it works well - no problem - but I need the SEF either

Now in the coinfiguration it is possible to "Enter pages to allow rewrite" so all the pages you will give, it will get an SEO URL.

But it is better to do this conversely.

So default all files will be translated to SEO Urls and the pages you enter in "Enter pages to allow rewrite" won't be translated.

How can we do that. That will solve the problem above also

right this has been running on the site i took over for a while now, however i've noticed its firing errors which seem to stem from line 46 its been completely unmodified as far as im aware, is this a known issue? is there a fix? becuase its been firing undetected up till now a error log every 1 second!!!!!

regards

Andy.

Hello,

Zen rookie here. :cool:

I installed Zen-Cart v.1.3.8 and did the Ultimate SEO upgrade. Now, when I click on a link on my site: http://earphoneguy.com/ say, All Products or Shipping & Returns I get this:

Not Found

The requested URL /products_all.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Any helps is much appreciated!

Thanks,

Vern

Hi

Have this mod installed,. but for some reason my links loook like this

http://www.macropackaging.co.uk/9642carrierbags-c-57.html

Now as far as I can tell the c-57 should not be visible because I said false to add the cpath to the end but it still remains

Also, what is that number 9462 in front of most of the categories, it cant be a category reference because its in front of many of them?

hello I've installed this mod, and I would know if there is a way to add parent category to a product?
Because I see the option in menu and I've setted on true, but when I click on a product I see only the product rewrited without parent category attached.

Instead if I click on category I see category rewrite.

Is there a way to add category to product rewrited both?

Thank you very much

I know that another mod does it, but I would this mod installed and stop, thanks. :smile:

how would you guys rate this mod, i may need to use.. should i bother..

did it cause more problems than it fixed?

any comments are appreciated.

thanks

I had installed this module but I am not happy the way it shows up the URL.

I have seen lots of people using Simple Seo URL so I will give this a try. May be you can try this too ;-)

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=729562#post729562