Ultimate SEO URLs

Checked link: http://flagdom.comx/xxx/

Type of redirect: 302 Moved Temporarily

Redirected to: http://flagdom.comx/index.php?main_page=login&
zenAdminID=8fad4a11132e16373df8b79206e169b0

x's added for your protection.

In the configuration menu for USEO.... Did you make any changes?

Check your configure.php files in admin/includes and includes for the proper paths. https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=99

Last resort try reinstalling the module.

~Melanie

I am using zencart 1.3.8 with ultimate SEO. Admin is set to:

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, product_id

I have looked through long thread and could not find this error. Please re-direct me if it is and I missed it.

Getting more and more errors when I hit refresh gone. But, I am concerned losing customers.

ERROR:

1062 Duplicate entry '4404c1df54fdb1291c8dd9bb259f32a9-1' for key 1
in:
[INSERT INTO seo_cache (cache_id, cache_language_id, cache_name, cache_data, cache_global, cache_gzip, cache_method, cache_date, cache_expires) VALUES ('4404c1df54fdb1291c8dd9bb259f32a9', '1', 'seo_urls_v2_manufacturers', '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', '1', '1', 'EVAL', '2009-06-06 11:12:35', '2009-07-06 11:12:35')]

Any ideas?

Thanks, Kim

Thank you in advenced for any help.
i'm getting a blank page on my admin screen and on my catalog, i've managed to make the erros on catalog to appear, but i just can't do that on the admin, if i use the Debug Error-Logging Tool the log just don't appear in cache folder (i've put 777 on it). if i use the

<?php
  define('STRICT_ERROR_REPORTING', true);
?>

on the admin/includes/local configure.php it doesn't work. It worked for my catalog folder, but not for the admin.
and them i got this erros in catalog:

Notice: Undefined variable: seo_urls in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/functions/html_output.php on line 24

Notice: Undefined property: keep_in_memory in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 1073

Notice: Undefined property: keep_in_memory in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 1073

Notice: Undefined property: keep_in_memory in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 1073

Notice: Use of undefined constant FILENAME_NEWS_RSS - assumed 'FILENAME_NEWS_RSS' in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 186

Notice: Use of undefined constant FILENAME_NEWS_ARCHIVE - assumed 'FILENAME_NEWS_ARCHIVE' in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 189

Notice: Use of undefined constant FILENAME_NEWS_INDEX - assumed 'FILENAME_NEWS_INDEX' in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 192

Notice: Undefined variable: _sid in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 322

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/functions/html_output.php:24) in /home/casasnos/public_html/loja3/includes/init_includes/init_templates.php on line 78

what this mean? i have the ultimate seo urls instaled on my store.
Now, what i consider the creppiest part, this blank pages come from nowhere! i didn't got a changed made on my files, in the morning i looked at my site and it was okay, in the afternoon i looked again, Blank.

i have searched everywhere for a solution, but can't find it.
thank you for any help and sorry for my poor english.

Hi,

I receive the following error message when I press on my google ads that appear on the left of google search:

Redirect Loop

Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked.

The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.
* Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site?
* NOTE: If accepting the site's cookies does not resolve the problem, it is probably a server configuration
issue and not your computer.

The url that I set it to go to is http://www.naturalfinesse.com/green-tea-extract-c-1/green-tea-extract-p-5 and when I use a redirect checker tool I see this:

Checked link: http://www.naturalfinesse.com/green-tea-extra
ct-c-1/green-tea-extract-p-5

Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently

Redirected to: http://www.naturalfinesse.com/green-tea-extra
ct-c-1/green-tea-extract-p-5?zenid=3ce4e6afd5ee66a
37c8323eba2ad2b6c

What do I do to fix the problem?

Thanks

It is very very good thread! What is your website? My website is http://www.directyw.com. Where do you get the supply? If you are interested in that, you may try supply from us. Hopefully that we could build the better SEO as well.

It seems that this is an "Ultimate SEO URLs" thread only and not really a thread comparing "Simple SEO URL" vs. "Ultimate SEO URLs".

Unfortunately however I didn't find a thread that is dedicated to comparing SEO URL add-ons.

I did Google "Simple SEO URL" vs. "Ultimate SEO URLs" but all I received was this: http://is.gd/1i6ok

With the only meaningful result not really in zen-cart.com:

http://simple-seo-url.com/2009/01/31/comparison-with-ultimate-seo-urls-for-zencart/

From looking at the comparison table it seems that "Simple SEO URL" is way superior over "Ultimate SEO URLs". If so, why is the latter called "Ultimate"?

Also, I discovered another SEO URL add-on for Zen-Cart, Ceon URI Mapping (SEO), which seems to be better than both (it is also actively maintained) because its URLs are not automatic and are controlled by admin.

Before selecting one, I am interested in your opinions and your recommendations.

Also, if you know of a thread that is dedicated to comparing SEO URL add-ons, I would appreciate it if you could refer me to it.

Thanks.

The name is named by author, so do not care about the name. You can either go with simple or ceon, either one is fine. Ultimate SEO URL has been abandoned by its author for a long time.

Both "ceon" and "ssu" give you the ability to set your all links, but each takes a different approach. SSU auto set all, and let you change each individual link if you want, CEON does the opposite of that.

yellow1912:

The name is named by author, so do not care about the name. You can either go with simple or ceon, either one is fine. Ultimate SEO URL has been abandoned by its author for a long time.

Both "ceon" and "ssu" give you the ability to set your all links, but each takes a different approach. SSU auto set all, and let you change each individual link if you want, CEON does the opposite of that.
yellow1912, thank you so much for your answer. You are just confirming what I have observed but I am no expert on this issue and so you helped me a great deal saving time trying and evaluating each package.

I am now debating between "ceon" and "ssu": I understand that they both offer the same features. I like the SSU approach better but really the most important factors for me are stability, reliability and long term commitment to bug-fixes (if there are any).

I understand that SSU may be more mature than CEON since it has been around longer. Is this correct?

Also, since nowadays most anyone agrees that these friendly URLs no longer affect SEO, do you know of other reasons why this add-on should be installed?

Thanks!

For some of reasons to use these kinds of url, you may want to check:
http://blog.rubikintegration.com/2008/12/16/seo-url-for-zencart/

If your site has been around for a while, you may want to consider keeping the current urls.

Both CEON and SSU are actively supported so you can safely use either one. I myself use SSU on my own sites so any time an issue comes up I fix it asap. And I believe Conor(author of Ceon mod) is also very supportive.

Hi all. I wish I had read these threads before installing!!! I hope someone can shed some light on this -

I had Ultimate SEO URLs working fine from test location but after moving the site to launch on a new server most pages fail to load, returning "Page Not Found". I would remove it altogether but it is required to make my Lightbox Gallery mod work.

I have amended all path references in configure.php, .htaccess, etc. but still no fix. I suspect that perhaps there may be some incorrect path entries in the database...?? I'm new to DB admin so it's just a guess.

Any ideas??????? Thanks in advance.

You should check your htaccess, I believe the problem is in there.

Also, if it is not too late (if your store has not been up and online for yet), I STRONGLY recommend removing this module. Use either SSU or Ceon's because ONE good reason: no one ever supports this module anymore.

Thanks for your reply. Here is the contents of my .htaccess, can you see anything obvious?

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

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]

**When i installed Ultimate SEO URLs,there was a problem.
If some products was linked,the advantage was there was only one url,but the problem was coming.
when i browsed this product,the path was all master category.I think it is very bad for customer experence.
What i should do?

Appreciate for your help!**

Do you have any suggestions how to put the Id and a custom text at the begining of the string like:

http://www.misterbling.com/bling-skull-necklace-p-18.html , replace with:

http://www.misterbling.com/<custom text>-p-18-bling-skull-necklace.html

Any help mucho appreciado
Thanks

Hi I've just installed ultimate_seo_urls_2-107 and have run into problems. I've followed everything in the Readme file and everything works fine apart from when I install .htaccess. As soon as i switch do this I get an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

Not sure why, I've installed this before without any problems.

Please can you help?

Thanks

Nick

Nick1973:

I've followed everything in the Readme file and everything works fine apart from when I install .htaccess. As soon as i switch do this I get an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Nick
Try to remove the following line from the .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks

As update to my post regarding duplicates issue and how to fix it:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=663999&postcount=644

Here is a replacement for function need_redirect() function in includes\classes\seo.url.php
that does both product and category redirection based on the current product/category URL:

	function need_redirect() {
		$this->need_redirect = ((preg_match('/main_page=/i', $this->uri)) ? true : false);
				// pg@ check product name from URL and redirect if not equal to real product name to avoid duplicates
		if ( preg_match('/-p-[0-9]/i', $this->uri) && preg_match('/main_page=product_info/i', $this->real_uri) ) {
			$productname_from_url = preg_replace('/-p-[0-9].*/i','',$this->uri);
			$productid_from_url= preg_replace('/.*-p-([0-9]+)\.html/i','$1',$this->uri);
			if ( $this->get_product_name($productid_from_url) != $productname_from_url ) {
				$this->need_redirect = true;
			// repeating procedure from function check_redirect() but for real_uri
			if ($this->is_attribute_string($this->real_uri)) {
			$parsed_url = parse_url($this->real_uri);
			$this->uri_parsed = parse_url($parsed_url['scheme']);
			$this->uri_parsed['query'] = preg_replace('/products_id=([0-9]+)/', 'products_id=$1:' . $parsed_url['path'], $this->uri_parsed['query']);
		} else {
			$this->uri_parsed = parse_url($this->real_uri);
		}
			}
		} // pg@
				// pg@ check category name from URL and redirect if not equal to real category name to avoid duplicates
		if ( preg_match('/-c-[0-9]/i', $this->uri) && preg_match('/main_page=index/i', $this->real_uri) ) {
			$catname_from_url = preg_replace('/-c-[0-9].*/i','',$this->uri);
			$catid_from_url= preg_replace('/.*-c-([0-9]+)\.html/i','$1',$this->uri);
			if ( $this->get_category_name($catid_from_url) != $catname_from_url ) {
				$this->need_redirect = true;
				$this->uri_parsed = parse_url($this->real_uri);
			}
		} // pg@		
		
		// QUICK AND DIRTY WAY TO DISABLE REDIRECTS ON PAGES WHEN SEO_URLS_ONLY_IN is enabled IMAGINADW.COM 
		$sefu = explode(",", ereg_replace( ' +', '', SEO_URLS_ONLY_IN ));
		if ((SEO_URLS_ONLY_IN!="") && !in_array($_GET['main_page'],$sefu) ) $this->need_redirect = false;
		// IMAGINADW.COM

		$this->attributes['SEO_REDIRECT']['NEED_REDIRECT'] = $this->need_redirect ? 'true' : 'false';
	}

So what's the verdict, How is this Mod from 1 to 10? has anyone noticed improvement in your rankings?

Hi

I just upgraded zen to patched zen 1.38. I waited for a long time because I knew something might break. Anyway the prob is with SEO URL.

While the destination URL is SEO like

http://mydomain.com/cricket-shop-c-23.html

When you point to links the status bar shows dynamic url, also if u look at the html source the url apepars to be:

http://mydomain.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=23

OK I FIXED IT. PAY ATTENTION TO V-138 FILES. YOU HAVE GOT TO INSTALL THEM AS WELL TO GET IT WORKING

hey all, i have installed the latest version of Ultimate SEO URLs and i have enabled "Add category parent to begining of URLs?" to "true".

when i go into a category it shows:
website.com/category-eg-c-1.html

but when i go into that categories and click into a product it displays as :
website.com/product-eg-p-1.html

isnt it suppose to attach both the category name as well as the prodcut name like:
website.com/category-eg-c-1-product-eg-p-1.html

or something similar to this?

can someone please help me remedy or clarify this?

thanks in advance!