search engine friendly url's

[♥FWR Media]

No apology needed. I'm late as well, and this is only a discussion. Nothing urgent.

 

Agreed. They don't seem to be interested in fixing the 301 issue either.

 

There are legitimate business reasons for having a product in multiple categories. This is another case where Google's practices do not match common Internet usage. Unfortunately we have to add special code to get around Google's eccentricity. So it goes.

 

By way of a conclusion, it appears that USU5 does not introduce any new problems beyond those in stock osCommerce. I still don't think there is any great advantage to using any rewriter, but if someone wants to use a URL rewriter, this is the one they should use. Thanks again for taking the time to explain things to me.

 

Regards

Jim

 

My pleasure Jim, thanks for the interesting discussion.

[♥FWR Media]

Oh while I remember, USU5 PRO ( currently in final beta testing ) will have some powerful seo benefit for multi language shops as for the first time it will offer a different uri for each different language on the site.

[♥valerif]

Sorry for the slow reply .. was busy last night.

 

 

 

Sadly Google are a law unto themselves, all we can do is issue the 301s and 404s and hope.

 

 

 

The problem is that using the osCommerce system of "copying" simply creates instant duplicate content and in my opinion should not be used.

 

If someone really must do this they should simply turn on "Add cPath to product URLs?" in USU5 which then acts exactly like osCommerce appending the cPath and highlighting the correct categories.

hi,

i have been following this discussion. can you clarify what do you mean by "copying" ?

what is your ultimate advise - activate the cPath in the USU5 or not?

thanks for your clarification in advance

valerif