Link Manager 3.0 Support Thread

Clyde,

Just wondering if ther eis a way to have Ultimate SEO URLs rewrite the URLs of all links pages.

For example, I would like my links URLs to read like this...

https://www.mysite.com/links/links-category-name.html

instead of this...

https://www.mysite.com/links.html?lPath=6

Do you know of any easy way to do this?

BTW - Have a great new year! :)

Alex,

To be honest, I don't know. I don't use either of the seo contributions.

BTW: I'm working on a re-write of the contribution. I was looking at some of the template code compared to several of the "submit" something templates and saw a lot of things that could be improved.

If I write, can you test?

Happy New Year!

Sure - It'd be good to test it out.

If you want me to test before releasing any updates to the community just PM me. :)

Will do.

I sometimes feel it is better to just start from scratch. instead of trying to re-write some of the older contributions. But since the framework is already there it, why reinvent the wheel.

Exactly. Good luck coding and I look forward to the results! :)

I got your contribution to work on my site (after changing hosts; Thanks kobra!)
But I do have a question. With many link exchange programs they ask you what page your link to their site is.

Well, in my case their link is on http://www.excellentsoaps.com/catalog/index.php?lPath=2&main_page=links
but when I put that page into their reciprocal link checker it always comes up negative. What link should I be putting in?

The checker says that because the link redirects - its not the actual address in the link.
I have the same thing going on with me, no solution yet. I'm gonna experiment/watch what happens here.

Is there a specific reason that you have Zen Cart installed in a sub directory and not at the root?

kernphilip:

I got your contribution to work on my site (after changing hosts; Thanks kobra!)
But I do have a question. With many link exchange programs they ask you what page your link to their site is.

Well, in my case their link is on http://www.excellentsoaps.com/catalog/index.php?lPath=2&main_page=links
but when I put that page into their reciprocal link checker it always comes up negative. What link should I be putting in?
I'll try adding a link to and from my TEST SITE and see if we can work out the problem.

NB: Categories should be used with the contribution (as I said, I'm re-writing a lot of the original code and will try to work out the use or non-use of categories for links for those that just prefer a links page and not categorizing the links.)

OK, the link to your site is here:

LINK TO YOUR SITE

The Link on your site to mine should be under Zen-Cart Development.

I added your link to my links under Zen Development category. Now the issue is that if i had received your link through a link exchange program (like link-metro or something similar) the page that contains the link to your site does not validate.

As for why i don't have zc in the root directory, i put it in a sub directory to avoid confusion with the blog and knowledge base that I'll put there eventually

Clyde,

You are an animal!!! I can't keep my test site in order and reload every so often as it begins to look like a collage of this and that.

kernphilip,

You might consider having one at the root, the cart, blog or knowledgebase....whichever one is the most used / most important.

clydejones:

I'll try adding a link to and from my TEST SITE and see if we can work out the problem.

NB: Categories should be used with the contribution (as I said, I'm re-writing a lot of the original code and will try to work out the use or non-use of categories for links for those that just prefer a links page and not categorizing the links.)

Clyde,

Remember my post a while back...

Just wondering if there is a way to have Ultimate SEO URLs rewrite the URLs of all links pages.

For example, I would like my links URLs to read like this...

https://www.mysite.com/links/links-category-name.html

instead of this...

https://www.mysite.com/links.html?lPath=6

Well... I was also having problems setting up link partnerships (due to my link partners not being able to find their recipricol links.

I'm if we can get Ultimate SEO URLs and Link Manager to play nice this will solve the problem. I'll look into this and post back.

Can't wait for the new Link Manager! :)

I've been trying to change the links appearance: instead of yoursite.com/index.php?main_page=redirect_links&action=links&goto=7 to the actual address its redirecting to. I'm doing this cuz some link exchanges have checkers that look for a physical link and not a redirect. So far the only thing that has happened is that I, for some reason, have my own address showing up instead :( . I really don't mind losing the ability to track clicks.

The link should look like this yoursite.com/index.php?main_page=links&lPath=2

At least right now. As I said, a re-write is in the works but it will take some time.

Can't wait for that to come out. And if you need any testers I'll be glad to test it out for you on my site.

Until then I'll see what my playing around with the code will lead me to :D.

Pete

Any suggestions on how to block out spammers? A friend of mine is being spammed bigtime through her Links Manager.

Right now the default behavior is to require approval of the links by the administrator. When in the admin panel just delete the unwanted links submissions.

I can add a require "registered users" only can submit a link option to the new version which is being written.

Hi,

Just to inform you that this contrib doesn't work in a multilingual site
( I have a site with 4 languages and the categories are showing 4 times on the sidebox) ... doesn't look good

Do you think that is possible to solve , ??

Thanks in advance

Chris:sleepy:

I'll check and see what can be done.

BTW: you might want to validate your site to fix some of the 1000+ errors.