Best SEO To Use?

[Sam666]

There are so many, I'm baffled on which to use :blink:

[♥toyicebear]

Click on sef & seo urls aswell as meta tags for your osc shop below.

[Sam666]

Do I need to have the SEF built in on OSC turned on like it says to use the SEF contributions? Because when I do it says my products are not found.

[Jack_mcs]

You shouldn't use that option. Install one of the SEO contributions as mentioned in the thread Nick supplied.

 

Jack

[Sam666]

I don't know how to edit my files to incorporate Sef though, the diff file is weird? Is there a file anywhere that says "add this here"?

[♥toyicebear]

Easy to add Seo contribs...

 

 

1. Meta Tags

 

Meta Tags Controller Support

 

Use this version:

 

Meta Tag Controller Support V1.1 toyicebear 9 Jan 2006

 

Easy step by step instructions included inside

 

 

2. SEF/SEO URLS

 

Ultimate Seo Urls

 

Use the version named:

 

Ultimate SEO URLs - 2.1d yesudo 25 Nov 2006

 

Easy to follow step by step instructions included inside the package

[Sam666]

wanted to try this http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2796 but the instructions suck <_<

[♥toyicebear]

wanted to try this http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2796 but the instructions suck <_<

 

 

As you have explained that you are a novice to php , i would recommend that you do not use that one......

 

(It has some issues and if you are not up to doing .php modifications its liable to cause you problems which you will not be able to fix yourself)

[Sam666]

As you have explained that you are a novice to php , i would recommend that you do not use that one......

 

(It has some issues and if you are not up to doing .php modifications its liable to cause you problems which you will not be able to fix yourself)

But I want the best listing :'(

[♥toyicebear]

But I want the best listing :'(

 

 

And who say that that is the best one?

 

 

actually if you really want to tweek your urls to the max....then SEO-G is the thing......

Edited October 12, 2007 by toyicebear

[Sam666]

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5080 is rather old? But it will give me the best listing? I need to rely on google.

[Jack_mcs]

You're getting hung up over minor points. The url, once rewritten, won't make that much of a difference. I prefer Ultimate SEO but it doesn't relly matter which one you use as long as it rewrites the urls correctly and as you want. As for SEO-G being old, the last release was in June. That is not considered old. There are some contributions that work fine that haven't been updated in several years.

 

Jack

[♥toyicebear]

As Jack said its not really critical which seo/sef url and meta tags contrib you choose...

 

Their both represent a relatively minor part of getting listed....

 

(Except in the case of header tags controler which does quite a few extra seo optimizing modifications to your site besides adding meta info)

 

Seo/Sef urls can help by shortening and adding relevant terms in the url . (If they also add or does not add identifications numbers and such is not really critical)

 

Meta Tags is being more and more phased out by the search engines and the only really critical part is that every product/category have individual titles.

Edited October 13, 2007 by toyicebear

[Sam666]

As Jack said its not really critical which seo/sef url and meta tags contrib you choose...

 

Their both represent a relatively minor part of getting listed....

 

(Except in the case of header tags controler which does quite a few extra seo optimizing modifications to your site besides adding meta info)

 

Seo/Sef urls can help by shortening and adding relevant terms in the url . (If they also add or does not add identifications numbers and such is not really critical)

 

Meta Tags is being more and more phased out by the search engines and the only really critical part is that every product/category have individual titles.

So your saying I would need like 14 sub cats? Or only for different "genre" products?

 

Also Ultimate SEO instructions are very poor too, the instructions are for a non modded OSC.

Edited October 13, 2007 by Sam666

[♥toyicebear]

Time to Read This........

[Sam666]

:(

[Sam666]

Well I did all it said in ultimate SEO, but when I add the code to my htaccess file, all of the pages can't be displayed(http 500), the dir is right and the php version is ok.

 

This is what my file looks like when I add the code:

 

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
 php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
 php_value register_globals 1
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
 php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
 php_value register_globals 1
</IfModule>

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/test/

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-(.*).html$ index.php?manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-(.*).html$ popup_image.php?pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t-(.*).html$ articles.php?tPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-a-(.*).html$ article_info.php?articles_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-(.*).html$ product_reviews.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-(.*).html$ product_reviews_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-(.*).html$ information.php?info_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

Edited October 14, 2007 by Sam666

[Jack_mcs]

Assuming your shop is in the test directory, change this line

RewriteBase /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/test/

to this

/test/

 

Jack

[Sam666]

Assuming your shop is in the test directory, change this line

RewriteBase /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/test/

to this

/test/

 

Jack

That didn't work, my dir is /httpdocs/test/ , but I know my store is located at usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/test/ from all the previous trouble I had, so the dir is right and i've tryed loads of different ones. Edited October 14, 2007 by Sam666

[Sam666]

Just got a e-mail back from my host

 

Dear Valued Customer,

 

Thank you for contacting the Globat Signature Support.

 

Some apache commands are no longer supported in .htaccess or .htconfig

due to security concerns:

 

Action

AddCharSet

AddEncoding

AddLanguage

AddType

BrowserMatch

BrowserMatchNoCase

CookieTracking

DefaultLanguage

DefaultType

ErrorDocument

ErrorHeader

Header

LanguagePriority

Options

PassEnv

Redirect

RedirectMatch

RedirectPermanent

RedirectTemporary

SetEnv

SetEnvIf

SetEnvIfNoCase

UnsetEnv

 

I have seen that you use "Options" in your command that's why it wont

work on our server.

 

Your shitting me? what can I use to get around this.

[Sam666]

Any ideas?

[Sam666]

so anyone lol? :-"