mlulm Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I would like to know if any of the seo url contributions will give me the same urls if I have a database crash and have to reload all my products. Assuming my product names stay the same. I'm pretty sure that the ones that show the product id would not work, because they would most likely change when I reload them. This is important to allow my links from search engine links to work after a crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlulm Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 I have installed seo-g and for my catalog, my product names will remain the same, I think it could handle a complete rebuild after a crash. Which means the old urls from search engines will still work. The instructions give a quick mention of a cache that might work, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. If anyone knows anything about getting it up and running, I could use the help. The other thing I noticed is you need to change the sitemap update duration time from always to something like weekly. To google this means the pages change everytime they are called up, and they gave me a warning about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs2k Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I have installed seo-g and for my catalog, my product names will remain the same, I think it could handle a complete rebuild after a crash. Which means the old urls from search engines will still work. The instructions give a quick mention of a cache that might work, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. If anyone knows anything about getting it up and running, I could use the help. The other thing I noticed is you need to change the sitemap update duration time from always to something like weekly. To google this means the pages change everytime they are called up, and they gave me a warning about it. You should really use Independent URL validation to prevent duplicate content. If you reload all your products and the product IDs are to be different then you really should just add (X) to each product ID where (X) is the largest product in your old database plus 1.. This will prevent problems by changing products or products' names. Example 1: Old database's highest product ID was 100. The first new product in the database will be 101 Example 2: Old database's highest product ID was 1023. The first new product in the database will be 1024 I found this out the hard way. Before we started using our own product database builder I used to use easypopulate with the extra field products_id. This allowed me to force the product ID I wanted each product to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs2k Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I do not use the SEO cache. It doesn't really make things faster because it still queries the database and the cache doesn't work if you have more than 30K products. Even if the caches worked well, I don't think the SEO cache would make your page load more than .03 seconds faster anyway. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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