Ultimate Seo Url / Redirect 301 Problem

[davegamer101]

Hey Everyone,

 

Really hoped I would be able to get some advice on a problem im having with Google and Ultimate SEO urls.

 

I have been using v2.0b for a few years now and everything was working fine. While doing some SEO work on my site I ran into the problem below with changing urls that have already been indexed by spiders. I was under the impression the 301 redirect script in Ultimate SEO was also meant to re-direct from older SEO Url's to the new ones, but it only seems to re-direct from original OSC urls. Is that right?

 

If I have changed a products name it will generate a new url, but for some reason the spiders see this as dupe content and drop that product into the Supplemental index. I have managed to get a couple of them out of the Supplemental index, but its still only referring to the original SEO url and not the new one. The new url will be left as a dupe in the Supplemental index.

 

Now I came to the conclusion the best way around this would be to use htaccess 301 redirects to the new url, below is an example.

 

Redirect 301 /catalog/lcd-projector-new-p-180.html http://www.gamerproducts.com/catalog/lcd-p...new2-p-180.html

 

This would have worked great if it was not for the fact that for some reason I am getting ?product_id=180 at the end of the url from the redirect.

 

If I enter the old url into a browser with the redirect inplace:

www.gamerproducts.com/catalog/lcd-projector-new-p-180.html

 

This below is what will actually appear in the browser after the redirect:

www.gamerproducts.com/catalog/lcd-projector-new2-p-180.html?products_id=180

 

This kind of defeats the purpose of the SEO URL if im getting product id's after the url. Would any of you have an idea how I could stop Ultimate SEO from adding the product_id to the url from a htaccess 301 redirect?

 

I tested this out with another host of mine using some kind of server based 301 re-direct and it worked fine. But my main site is kind of stuck on a host that only allows for htaccess redirects.

 

Any advice on this would be much appreciated. :)

 

Dave