ULTIMATE Seo Urls 5 - by FWR Media

fer_fer · April 24, 2010

Hi Robert

I have problems with some things, for example

.....index.php?manufacturers_id=13&page=1/

..../index.php?currency=USD&cPath=111_108_57&language=es/

...../-p-500.html?language=de/

As I have read these problems are solved with PRO version

When you're ready to download Ultimate Seo Urls 5 Pro (version 1.1)

Thanks for all of your help!

Fer

♥FWR Media · April 24, 2010

Hi Robert

I have problems with some things, for example

.....index.php?manufacturers_id=13&page=1/

..../index.php?currency=USD&cPath=111_108_57&language=es/

...../-p-500.html?language=de/

As I have read these problems are solved with PRO version

When you're ready to download Ultimate Seo Urls 5 Pro (version 1.1)

Thanks for all of your help!

Fer

I have no idea what you mean .. there are no known issues with USU5 so currently there are no problems to solve.

Excepting the caching of massive shops ( 20,000 products plus ).

April 24, 2010

Ryan USU5 is a url contribution it has nothing whatsoever to do with titles, duplicate or otherwise.

Robert,

I apologize if I have wasted your time. I may have justed posted in the wrong forum. I am using KissMT and USU5. You create the most reliable contributions for osCommerce so it only made sense to install KissMT as well.

The reasoning that led me to believe that the problem was with USU5 originated with the duplicate URLS rather then meta tags because the meta tags (from KissMT) are functioning properly. As I have previously mentioned my version of USU5 is the latest version. However, it has one twist to it, it has a slight modification to it that allows the URL's to be written with the manufacturer's name before the product name. The modification was written by you in this thread many months ago for the first release of USU5. I reapplied it to the latest version of USU5 when I upgraded and everything appeared to 100% good.

In my Google Webmaster tools I am getting a large amount of penalties for duplicate descriptions and title tags. The URL of these penalties are the main reasoning I believe the problem to be with USU5. I think there may be a redirecting problem or a 301 redirect problem. When I click on one of the duplicate links it always automatically redirects to the correct URL. But after over a week these penalties still persist and have increased. For some reason that I can not explain Google is seeing two links for every product. One link with the manufacturer's name and one without.

Do you think this is still not a problem with USU5?

Thanks for everything!

- Ryan

♥FWR Media · April 24, 2010

Robert,

I apologize if I have wasted your time. I may have justed posted in the wrong forum. I am using KissMT and USU5. You create the most reliable contributions for osCommerce so it only made sense to install KissMT as well.

The reasoning that led me to believe that the problem was with USU5 originated with the duplicate URLS rather then meta tags because the meta tags (from KissMT) are functioning properly. As I have previously mentioned my version of USU5 is the latest version. However, it has one twist to it, it has a slight modification to it that allows the URL's to be written with the manufacturer's name before the product name. The modification was written by you in this thread many months ago for the first release of USU5. I reapplied it to the latest version of USU5 when I upgraded and everything appeared to 100% good.

In my Google Webmaster tools I am getting a large amount of penalties for duplicate descriptions and title tags. The URL of these penalties are the main reasoning I believe the problem to be with USU5. I think there may be a redirecting problem or a 301 redirect problem. When I click on one of the duplicate links it always automatically redirects to the correct URL. But after over a week these penalties still persist and have increased. For some reason that I can not explain Google is seeing two links for every product. One link with the manufacturer's name and one without.

Do you think this is still not a problem with USU5?

Thanks for everything!

- Ryan

Hi Ryan

Two seperate uris pointing to a page without there being a valid 301 redirect for the incorrect version should not happen with USU5 ( it does of course happen all the time with the old series 2 ).

What I'd suggest is that you test it.

1) Assuming that you use firefox .. load up the add on "Live HTTP headers".

Access your site with the full url that you believe should be current and see what headers are output.

2) Try to access your site with the legacy full url ( no manufacturer name ) and compare the headers it should be a 301 redirect.

April 24, 2010

I downloaded the KISSMT contribution and I was about to install it for testing purpose but as I am using STS the installation should be different. So is there any additional instllation instruction fro STS users to install KISSMT.

Thanks

Step 1 Edit file includes/modules/sts_inc/sts_user_code.php

add

$sts->start_capture();

include(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'kiss_meta_tags/kiss_meta_tags.php');

$sts->stop_capture('kissmeta');

after first <?php and before

$sts->start_capture();

echo "\n\n";

echo tep_draw_form('goto', FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'get', '');

echo tep_draw_pull_down_menu('cPath', tep_get_category_tree(), $current_category_id, 'onchange="this.form.submit();"');

echo "</form>\n"; echo "\n";

$sts->stop_capture('catmenu');

Step 2 Edit file includes/modules/sts_inc/general.php

delete

$sts->template['headertags']= "<title>" . TITLE ."</title>";

Step 3 Edit your template html

Now add $kissmeta to your template .html like...

<head>

$kissmeta

</head>

I hope this works for you!

sahilsaid · April 24, 2010

Thanks for your reply sijo and robert

I seems to have sorted the problem now so not sure should I just stick on to the header tags seo? or I should install the KISSMT?

Is there any obvious advantage of one over the other.

Thanks

♥FWR Media · April 25, 2010

Thanks for your reply sijo and robert

I seems to have sorted the problem now so not sure should I just stick on to the header tags seo? or I should install the KISSMT?

Is there any obvious advantage of one over the other.

Thanks

This is not really the place to discuss KissMT as it has its own support thread. All I will say is that I created KissMT as I would never add header tags to a web site, I find it bloated, inefficient and over complex. It should be remembered though that KissMT is dynamic it can be installed in minutes and then virtually left alone to do "its thing". If you want to laboriously write every single bit of meta data for each dynamic page manually then KissMT is not for you.

timmer81 · April 25, 2010

Hi there, firstly a great contribution, I did have a few problems installing but thanks to some help from fellow community member Chooch I have been able to correct most of the problems. The main issue I have at the moment all the links on the homepage work correctly except for the categories links. They automatically revert back to the homepage. The only wy to view products at the moment is to either click images, or use drop down list from the manufacturers list and get to the products that way. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Timmer

(website is http://www.riflebitz.com)

♥FWR Media · April 25, 2010

Hi there, firstly a great contribution, I did have a few problems installing but thanks to some help from fellow community member Chooch I have been able to correct most of the problems. The main issue I have at the moment all the links on the homepage work correctly except for the categories links. They automatically revert back to the homepage. The only wy to view products at the moment is to either click images, or use drop down list from the manufacturers list and get to the products that way. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Timmer

(website is http://www.riflebitz.com)

I can't imagine why you had problems installing, the instructions are quite clear.

The categories are not working because cPath is not being passed via _GET for some reason.

Can you confirm that you have EXACTLY the following line in your .htaccess code: -

RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-([0-9_]+).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

timmer81 · April 25, 2010

Hi there,

I'm not sure why I had the problems when I orginally installed it, kept getting a load of errors especially in the admin area, however reinstalled it and it in the state is now. I'm sure i must of not done something correctly orginally.

The code I have in the htaccess file is the following:-

# $Id: .htaccess 1739 2007-12-20 00:52:16Z hpdl $

#

# This is used with Apache WebServers

#

# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to

# the AllowOverride configuration

#

# Example:

#

# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">

# AllowOverride Options

# </Directory>

#

# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the

# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

# The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet

# Explorer browsers

#<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>

# <IfDefine SSL>

# SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \

# nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \

# downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

# </IfDefine>

#</IfModule>

# If Search Engine Friendly URLs do not work, try enabling the

# following Apache configuration parameter

# AcceptPathInfo On

# Fix certain PHP values

# (commented out by default to prevent errors occuring on certain

# servers)

# php_value session.use_trans_sid 0

# php_value register_globals 1

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

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 ^(.*)-by-(.*).html$ all-products.php?fl=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-t-(.*).html$ articles.php?tPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-a-(.*).html$ article_info.php?articles_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-au-(.*).html$ articles.php?authors_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 ^(.*)-f-(.*).html$ faqdesk_info.php?faqdesk_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-fc-(.*).html$ faqdesk_index.php?faqPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-fri-(.*).html$ faqdesk_reviews_info.php?faqdesk_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-fra-(.*).html$ faqdesk_reviews_article.php?faqdesk_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-(.*).html$ information.php?info_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-links-(.*).html$ links.php?lPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-pm-([0-9]+).html$ info_pages.php?pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-n-(.*).html$ newsdesk_info.php?newsdesk_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-nc-(.*).html$ newsdesk_index.php?newsPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-nri-(.*).html$ newsdesk_reviews_info.php?newsdesk_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-nra-(.*).html$ newsdesk_reviews_article.php?newsdesk_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-po-([0-9]+).html$ pollbooth.php?pollid=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

I couldn't the line of code you mentioned, if that is the problem where abouts within the htacess file should I put it?

I can't imagine why you had problems installing, the instructions are quite clear.

The categories are not working because cPath is not being passed via _GET for some reason.

Can you confirm that you have EXACTLY the following line in your .htaccess code: -
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-([0-9_]+).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

smurfi_wsz · April 26, 2010

You can't do this, standard mode must be a filename ( or osCommerce wouldn't know which file to load )

The alternative is to use rewrite mode e.g.

some.domain.tld/my_article_name-p-23.html

If rewrite mode is not working then either you have set RewriteBase incorrectly in .htaccess or your server is not setup correctly with mod_rewrite and required AllowOverride settings.

if ( in_array("mod_rewrite", apache_get_modules()) ) echo "mod rewrite on"; else echo "Huh, dude u don't have";

and

httpd -M shows me that mod_rewrite is fired up and running

RewriteBase is set to "/" according to the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf, cause the shop resides there, .htaccess too -- should be a pretty nice setting, right?

AllowOverride was set to None changed to All, which was the error in my case...

changed the setting and tried and tried and ... wtf nothing happens...

so @all with the same error: DON'T FORGET TO RESTART YOUR APACHE-SERVER, eg. apachectl restart

@FWR Media, you are a really smart person B) thx thx thx

timmer81 · April 26, 2010

Hi there FWR Media,

Ok I have changed my htaccess file and have now icluded the line of code you mentioned as it wasn't in the original install document. my htaccess file now reads

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-([0-9_]+).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}