Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Reading my statement back it looks sorta confusing. I was suggesting that you ......a ) add a SEO contribution (not suggesting any specific one) ..or..b ) turn on SEO urls in the configuration. I went on to say that the configuration option has always functioned correctly in my experience. Lastly I commented that search engines index pages not variables like "?cPath=22_50&osCsid=0faf9cfa6c3d16d36a2f9c7d7573fb81". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 What does this contribution do? Sorry i know dumb question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Fox Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 When you click a link on your site, the next page has a URL of something like this: xtreme-hobby.net/product_info.php?products_id=193 In order to get to the product's page you have to go to that complete URL. GoogleBot and other search bots don't see anything past the "?" - so these bots will keep trying to follow links, but will usually go only to the first part of the URL (xtreme-hobby.net/product_info.php) and will never see the rest of your site. The SEO contribution fixes this issue by turning the above link into something like this: xtreme-hobby.net/product_info.php/products_id/193 That will let the bots follow through to the rest of your pages. On your site, go to; Your Admin > Configuration > My Store > "Use Search-Engine Safe URLs (still in development)" > [Edit] > (•)True > [update] That should set you up without having to install any contributions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Ok i went in and out it to true, how do i know if its working properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Fox Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Hmm. My site did almost the same thing the first time I tried that. What do your session settings look like? Mine are: Session Directory: /xtreme-tmp Force Cookie Use: False Check SSL Session ID: False Check User Agent: False Check IP Address: False Prevent Spider Sessions: True Recreate Session: False Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I just turned it back to False since the site wasnt working. Heres my sessions Session Directory Force Cookie Use False Check SSL Session ID False Check User Agent False Check IP Address False Prevent Spider Sessions False Recreate Session False Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Fox Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Try it again, but this time change "Prevent Spider Sessions" to True. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Yea i changed both again and still the samething. So i changed it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Still cant get SEO to work?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Post your htaccess file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Fox Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Also, can you post what the error said when you changed the SEO settings? I saw that same message somewhere here, and I'll be damned if I can't find it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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