With much anticipation I am watching my Google Webmaster Tools to see how the switch to SSEO affects how google sees my site and how it will handle the new url's.
5 days after installing SSEO, Google Tools lists a few issues.
Content analysis lists duplicate title tags and duplicate meta tags. Looking a bit more closely, I notice that some of the duplicates are caused by the old zen url's and now the new SSEO links are considered duplicates.
Example:
/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=113/star-lamps/mexican-star-light-with-flower-pierced-design-in-bronze-13-p-113
I hope this will go away after a while. Current listings in Google search results are redirecting correctly to the new url's. One thing seems still strange to me. If I am on my site and paste the old url in the browser, I get an error message saying:
ALERT:
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting this request in a manner that will never complete.
Redirect from links on other sites or search results works fine. I just wonder why this is.
All other duplicates are Zen Cart typical New Listing and All listing pages where there is page after page with the same meta tags.
Other than the listed problem, all seems fine and already some of the SSEO url start popping up in search results. I noticed a higher crawl rate the last few days as the search spiders seem to play catch up with the new url's.