Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Hi Mendyo,

Check your settings for the module and make sure you have category set to folder (url) and try that.

Edit: sorry I thought you were talking about categories.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I'll have look to see why your ticket isn't addressed. I've attached a module that will appear in your x-cart admin -> cdseo pro admin -> modules area to give you this url format for products. Static pages aren't categorized by default so CDSEO has no such possibility.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Jon,

Thank you so much. I will install it tonight and let you know if there are any issues.

I really appreciate the prompt reply.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Jon, you are monitoring this thread, we seem to be running out of options here.

Can you reply to ticket #FCP-865-88652

Thanks

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Sorry we are swamped right now and behind. Please send those details to me directly at jon@websitecm.com and I will look for them this morning.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Thankyou, have emailed you directly

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

The install worked great and the URL structure for the products is just the way I wanted.

However, the subcategory URLs are showing up as www.domain.com/subcategory insteadd of www.domain/category/subcategory.

Any way to change that? This feature would be really nice as it would follow the breadcrumbs and help with SEO.

Thank you,

Mendy

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

i have upgarded to CDSEO 1.8.0.

I noted one of the new features "Added the ability to view and delete url history.". Whereabouts do we view / delete url history. i can't find any reference to it in cdseo admin. thanks

Being 403 redirected
 

I have posted a ticket already, would appreciate a response, as my site is getting 403 (website cannot be found) error.

After I upgraded to 4.4.2 and CDSEO (both fresh install), everything falls apart ever since.

Some categories were directed others with 403 code, not to mention that many products were all 403 redirected!

Also, I have tried to redirect some old urls with .htaccess and some works some don't (got 404).

Here's my .htaccess please help:

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>
<FilesMatch "\.(css|js)$">
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

# ------------------------------------
# CDSEO Pro
# ------------------------------------
# This directory index is recommended to replace the
# x-cart default within this .htaccess file
DirectoryIndex home.php index.html index.php

# Enable mod rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# .htpasswd protection
# May be required if your htpasswd files are located below document root (i.e. cpanel)
# Remove # at the beginning of this line if your unable to access password protected folders:
ErrorDocument 401 "Unauthorized"

# Some servers require this Options directive to be disabled
# Remove # at the beginning of this line to disable:
#Options -Multiviews

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be enabled
# Remove # at the beginning of this line to enable:
#RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(payment|admin|provider|partner)/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(gif|jpe?g|png|js|css|swf|php|ico)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ cdseopro.php
# ------------------------------------
# / CDSEO Pro
# ------------------------------------

# Speed-Up JS and CSS [[[
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule loader_(.+).css loader.php?type=css&md5_suffix=$1 [L]
RewriteRule loader_(.+).js loader.php?type=js&md5_suffix=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(payment|petadmin|provider|partner)/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(gif|jpe?g|png|js|css|swf|php|ico)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatcher.php [L]
</IfModule>

# block common X-Cart files that could reveal
# that you have X-Cart installed
RedirectMatch gone ^.*Smarty.*$
RedirectMatch gone ^/.*\.tpl$
RedirectMatch gone VERSION.*
RedirectMatch gone COPYRIGHT.*
RedirectMatch gone INSTALL.*
RedirectMatch gone NEW.*
RedirectMatch gone README.*
RedirectMatch gone UPGRADE.*
Redirect gone /shipping
Redirect gone /skin_backup
Redirect gone /.pgp
Redirect gone /.pgp.def

ServerSignature Off
#Block mySQL injects
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (;|<|>|▓|■|\)|%0A|%0D|%22|%27|%3C|%3E|%00).*(/\*|union|select|insert|cast|set|declare|drop|updat e|md5|benchmark) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.\./\.\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (localhost|loopback|127\.0\.0\.1) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.[a-z0-9] [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|>|▓|%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} concat[^\(]*\( [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^s]*s)+elect [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^a]*a)+ll([^s]*s)+elect [NC]
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Looks like you have CDSEO and Clean Urls enabled or at least you still have the clean urls code in your .htaccess.

Ensure that Clean Urls is disabled in your xcart admin -> general settings -> SEO settings area.

Then ensure that CDSEO is enabled.

Then use this as your .htaccess:

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Jon,

Thanks but still I am not able to get this resolved.
- The Clean URLs is disabled in xcart admin
- CDSEO is enabled.
- .htaccess has been cleaned up

From what I see (via SEO optimization software) I have a mixture of 200, 301, 302 and 403...whereas they should be either 200 and/or 301

Also, I did few 301 redirects some works and some don't (the ones don't work got 404 instead)...

Do you have any idea what may have caused this?

Thanks again for the help.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Can you provide specific examples of urls?

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Dear Don,

Have purchased the seo package with installation for more than a week. But until now I still have no idea on when could the package be installed on my server. Please reply my ticket #IMT-164-68856. Your help is much appreciated.

Best regards,
Henry @ gadgetinfinity.com

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Let me check on that for you now.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I've been trolling these threads for 2 weeks and have yet to find a definitive answer on the problem I'm having:

When I run Google Webmaster it shows 400+ instances of duplicate meta content, most of which is all in "index" pages - categories with multiple pages showing the same meta description for each page. I see a post from Jon from 2008 that says this is default functionality for CDSEO Pro. I have CDSEO Pro but I'm still showing 400 pages of duplicate content....how can I resolve these duplicate content issues?

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I think that the latest version of CDSEO Pro deals with this issue and allows different meta descriptions for multiple index pages like categories.

http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/cdseo-pro-x-cart-seo-pro-upgrade.html

Steve

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Are there any tricks to get CDSEO to work with X-cart on a local test server?

In order to get X-cart site to function on test server, I had to set the status to '0' in the local wcm_cdseo_config table. The X-cart site then generally works fine, but all links to static pages are returning 404.

Any workarounds for the static page issue with CDSEO status off?

If not, any way to get CDSEO to play nice on the test server?

Thanks.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Hi Jon,

I'm looking to redirect a domain name to a specific url that has been created by CDESO. Currently the redirect (via cPanel parked domains) just lands at the domain name when I would like it to go to the domainname/category.

Does this need to be written directly via the .htaccess file in order for this to work.

Thanks

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

BBM_

Can you change the parked domain redirect to the category url? Make it a Permanent 301 if you are keeping it and notify the search engines. It is the easiest way, I think.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Hi Jon,

We have just installed CDSEO on a 4.4.4 cart still in Dev

I had an error with teh Survey section of our cart. The survey completed message doesn't pop up when a user completes the survey. The message does appear if you have the option ticked to display survey results. If you have display survey results un-ticked, we dont get the survey completed pop up.


I had a ticket logged with Xcart - who resolved.

I quote x-carts reply:
------------------------------.

The investigation revealed that the issue is caused by the following custom code added to <xcart_dir>/home.php script on the server:
Code: php
include $xcart_dir."/modules/cdseolinks/cdseo_redirects.php"; This custom script performs extra redirects which broke default X-Cart functionality.

In order to resolve the problem you need to contact the authors of this modification.

To workaround the issue I have commented out the custom code replacing it with this code:
Code: php
//include $xcart_dir."/modules/cdseolinks/cdseo_redirects.php";
----------------------------------------------
The CDSEO still seems to work. But what is the implication of removing this line of code?


Cheers
Zane

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

This line is needed for cdseo properly to redirect anything that goes through home.php (going to a category page for example). You need to contact Jon WebsiteCM and let him know about this so he can provide a fix for it (if this is the cdseo that breaks the cart)

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Hi Acquamarina,

Thanks for the response. I am trying to do this via cpanel but regardless of the category link i put in it just resolves to the main url.

I think because CDSEO creates the url it's not picking it up?

I'll scratch my head and play with it a little more.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Did you give it enough time to propagate? Sometimes it's fast but sometimes it takes up to 48 hours. If you did, maybe there is a setting in htaccess for exterior redirects. Can you check that?
Sorry, I do not have enough knowledge to help with htaccess, but maybe someone else here can pitch in.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I just had an idea - how about if you use the default url for that category (before CDSEO changed it) Did you try that on the CP? Something like yoursite.com/home.php?cat=103

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Not to Hijack this thread but has anyone heard from Jon lately ? I have a ticket and a PM that's been hanging for a week with no response.

Thanks

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Get ready to wait. Hope he is ok, we have one for a paid install/upgrade that is 2 weeks old with no response whatsoever.I even posted here:http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=61620

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Hi Acquamarina,

Thanks for your suggestions but still no luck, I'll lodge a ticket with Jon.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I had an order in for another version of CDSEO Pro which was sent to me today (pretty quick).

but no luck with any support tickets :( I even put a comment in with the order and I need a license upgraded ASAP.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

@BBM_ At least you got the files, I have nothing... Still waiting.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I've left a voice msg on their land line to see if that assists.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Jon is back! He installed my upgrade and is now catching up so it should not be long. He probably has a ton of catching up to do. I was glad to get a response, I was worried about him. That delay was unusual, they are always very good with support.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I have a question on CDSEO for 4.4.4 - this is in admin only. On the admin product, category and manufacturer pages, the 4.4.4 version includes the meta information area. Is there a way to make that the CDSEO meta information instead, as it looks like the module disables the default feature? I have to make some changes and going back and forth is confusing and inefficient.

I have this modification on my 4.1.9 for the product pages and it is great. I would like to do the same for 4.4.4 and include categories and manufacturers.

Thanks in advance!

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

This option is an optional mod you can do. Here are the instructions to add to 4.4.4 on Jon's other site.

http://www.x-cart-seo.com/cdseo-pro-for-x-cart/xcart-admin-addon.php

I've added to my 4.4.4 and it works. These instructions weren't written for 4.4.4 so you have to be careful in a few spots.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Thanks, I'll try that.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Sorry for the delay guys, I hate to leave people hanging but I'm support levels are back to where they should be now. Still playing a bit of catch-up but almost there.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

You should be able to install CDSEO on a local host provided it supports .htaccess and mod rewrite. If links to static pages are returning 404 it may be that they are hard-coded and trying to use the CDSEO urls even though CDSEO has been disabled. It's always best to link to the dynamic php urls and allow CDSEO to replace them.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

CDSEO won't have any impact on the redirect.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

I've solved this for Zane but if anybody else is interested in this solution, it is as follows.

PROBLEM: X-Cart creates a session with the message and redirects it to home.php where the message is cleared. CDSEO then redirects home.php to / and the message has already been cleared and thus is not displayed.

SOLUTION:
Open modules/Survey/customer_survey.php

Find:
func_header_location('home.php');

Replace with:
func_header_location('/');

or if your site is not in root then replace with:

func_header_location($http_location);

COMMENT: Using home.php is a relic and should have stopped being used in x-cart as of 2003. Please x-cart start using index.php properly like every other piece of worthy software on the planet. There's no need for a splash page any more.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

Hi Jon,
I have test store in directory "test" & live store in root directory. But when I visit my site www.mysite.com/test I am getting error in chrome "too many loops found" & it's not allowed me to login to "www.mysite.com/test/admin" also. I had to delete .htacsess file & disable CDSEROPRO.
Is there any change in settings require in CDSEROPRO to work correctly?
Also I want make /test directory password .htacsess protected. So now there will be 2 .htacsess files in /test directory ? or your .htacsess file needs to be edited?

Re: CDSEO Pro - Complete SEO Solution - Custom Urls, Page Titles, Meta Data, Link Anchors
 

In your root .htaccess file FIND:


CHANGE TO:


FIND:


CHANGE TO:


In your /test/ folder you can't have two .htaccess files, just put your pass protection and cdseo code in the same file. Also find:


CHANGE TO: