osCommerce-Official Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 (edited) osCommerce v4 comes fully prepared with modern on-site SEO features. 1. Page properties Every entity like product, category, landing page, website pages have editable page URL, title, description, H tags, image alts, and so on. It is possible to set templates for each type of page in the SEO settings in the back end. And it is also possible to override those settings to make granular changes to, for example, product catalog. 2. Rich text snippets describe pages in a better way for Google and other search engines 3. Pre-integration with Google tools (Analytics, Tag manager, various Trackers), where only the account code needs to be specified in the back end to complete the integration 4. osCommerce v4 allows for redirects (301) to be set for particular entities (like products, etc) or through the whole website (SEO redirects functionality) 5. XML site maps are generated automatically by the website 6. Page load speed has been optimised to pass Google Page Speed test successfully SEO functionality comes "out of the box" and will be included into osCommerce v4 FREE and open source version. Watch this space, more updates to follow! Edited March 5, 2021 by osCommerce-Official Smoky Barnable, Larry2k and Pritchard78 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 1 hour ago, osCommerce-Official said: SEO functionality comes "out of the box" and will be included into osCommerce v4 FREE and open source version. What does this mean - will there be a paid version of osCommerce also ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 Just now, Hotclutch said: What does this mean - will there be a paid version of osCommerce also ? It answers many questions about if osCommerce v4 will be free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Don't understand your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 11 minutes ago, Hotclutch said: Don't understand your answer. Many users of this forum asked if osCommerce v4 will be free. And in this post, besides explaining how on-site SEO will work, we have yet again emphasised that osCommerce v4 will be free and open source. Papanco, Hotclutch and acidvertigo 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wettset Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Great work THX osCommerce-Official 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pritchard78 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Looking good. Can't wait to see more. osCommerce-Official 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkman45 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Brilliant work guys. Finally, an eCommerce solution that is user-friendly and has the functions that we need. For all the work that is happening behind the curtain. I'd be happy to contribute something, even a donation of some-sorts of beta testing......it's only fair. osCommerce-Official 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 The V4 SEO URLs are optional ? Out of the box install still has php URLs with query string parameters ? Will it be possible for a developer to adapt Chemo's Ultimate SEO URLs for the V4 osCommerce ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Hotclutch said: The V4 SEO URLs are optional ? Out of the box install still has php URLs with query string parameters ? Will it be possible for a developer to adapt Chemo's Ultimate SEO URLs for the V4 osCommerce ? SEO URLs are there by default, "out of the box". It is possible to override it, using "Old SEO URL" and putting some .php link there instead of an SEO-friendly .html one. It will surely be possible to create an add-on that improves it further, but all the core on-site SEO functionality is already covered. Hotclutch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 The pagination class can be improved for SEO. https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s?page=1 is an example of duplicate content. Either the page 1 link can be removed from the pagination series, or the HTML output should point to: https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 In what order are the products arranged by default in categories ? There are 4 options in the drop down, but it does not appear to be one of those. Name (+ / -), Price (+ / -). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Hotclutch said: The pagination class can be improved for SEO. https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s?page=1 is an example of duplicate content. Either the page 1 link can be removed from the pagination series, or the HTML output should point to: https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s Ashley, thanks for the advise! Would this do the job though: <link href='https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s' rel='canonical' /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Hotclutch said: In what order are the products arranged by default in categories ? There are 4 options in the drop down, but it does not appear to be one of those. Name (+ / -), Price (+ / -). There's a feature called "Product Global Sort" which is applied to the product listing (any product listing) by default. It allows you to push forward those products you're most interested in selling first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 rel="canonical" is one tool that can be used to deal with duplicate content. Its not always appropriate or the best tool to use depending. here 1st prize is to rewrite the code, that will leave the search engine in no doubt as to what is going on. This has been a long time issue with the old osCommerce. Between the pagination, sort parameters, and now with the grid / list view parameters, you have a duplicate content generator there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, Hotclutch said: rel="canonical" is one tool that can be used to deal with duplicate content. Its not always appropriate or the best tool to use depending. here 1st prize is to rewrite the code, that will leave the search engine in no doubt as to what is going on. This has been a long time issue with the old osCommerce. Between the pagination, sort parameters, and now with the grid / list view parameters, you have a duplicate content generator there. Thanks for the advise, will forward this to the development team for consideration! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s?page=3&sort=na and https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s?sort=na&page=3 are considered to be 2 different URLs from a SEO point of view. Linking inconsistently like this can cause link equity spread and a drop in performance in the rankings. Also an old osCommerce problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, Hotclutch said: https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s?page=3&sort=na and https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s?sort=na&page=3 are considered to be 2 different URLs from a SEO point of view. Linking inconsistently like this can cause link equity spread and a drop in performance in the rankings. Also an old osCommerce problem. Thanks, Ashley! That's why we used "canonical" there for now. Will consider your other suggestions too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥cannuck1964 Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Nice work, is osC php 8.0 ready as well? Quote Peter McGrath ----------------------------- See my Profile (click here) for more information and to contact me for professional osCommerce support that includes SEO development, custom development and security implementation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, cannuck1964 said: Nice work, is osC php 8.0 ready as well? Peter, thanks for this question. It is going to be PHP 8 compatible when it is released, one of the important tasks for us is to make it compatible with all the modern server technologies out there. osCommerce has historically been an "on premise" solution and osCommerce v4 is going to be "on premise" as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥cannuck1964 Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 38 minutes ago, osCommerce-Official said: Peter, thanks for this question. It is going to be PHP 8 compatible when it is released, one of the important tasks for us is to make it compatible with all the modern server technologies out there. osCommerce has historically been an "on premise" solution and osCommerce v4 is going to be "on premise" as well. I am currently working on that right now. The usage of "each" is all over the place and was my starting point. Is a slow and tedious job, since this function is used extensively all over the files. osCommerce-Official 1 Quote Peter McGrath ----------------------------- See my Profile (click here) for more information and to contact me for professional osCommerce support that includes SEO development, custom development and security implementation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Is there any feature that will display debugging information - no. of queries, query execution time, php errors ? Are there any caching features - like for the catergories and / brands ? osCommerce-Official 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Gyakutsuki Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 To continue which caching technology do you use ? Is possible to use also the preloading (opCache) included in php 7.4 ? Tk osCommerce-Official 1 Quote Regards ----------------------------------------- Loïc Contact me by skype for business Contact me @gyakutsuki for an answer on the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osCommerce-Official Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, Hotclutch said: Is there any feature that will display debugging information - no. of queries, query execution time, php errors ? Are there any caching features - like for the catergories and / brands ? Ashley, Loïc since the new osCommerce v4 is based on YII2, it has the said debugging information available if a corresponding mode is switched on. It looks like this: Cache is available for templates, DB queries, etc. We will be posting about the technology in more details in the near future. Edited March 11, 2021 by osCommerce-Official Gyakutsuki and Hotclutch 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 On the dev site, rel="canonical" is being used incorrectly. <link href='https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s' rel='canonical' /> is not the canonical of: https://dev.trueloaded.co.uk/men-s?page=2&sort=pd If this is a module of V4 then it ought not to be configured in the on state. Google won't accept this choice of canonical, and if it did it will cause product pages to be starved of link equity and drop them out of the index. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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