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

It is fine but isn't needed as if you leave the secondary url blank it will use category/index2.html by default. If you're going to customize it then you are better to use keywords in the url instead.

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

CDSEO currently only handles the category/product/manufacturers/static pages.

Depending on the module, typically you can use mod rewrite for this. If it's just a page, you can do so by adding this code after "RewriteEngine on" in the CDSEO .htaccess code:


If you have dynamic urls, then you can set your script up to use urls such as: /your-page/variable/

Then use the code:


Hope that helps.

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

Hi Jon,

I'm using CDSEO Pro to generate a sitemap. It's working for all the normal pages on the site, but I've also got a blog set up in the directory http://www.nerdseven.com/blog/ and have added it to the list of additional URLs, but it's not getting built into the sitemap. Do you have an idea of why this might be happening?

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

Looking at your sitemap.xml the blog is the first link in it:
http://www.nerdseven.com/sitemap.xml

You may need to do a hard refresh (ctrl+f5 in most browsers)

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

Thanks again.

Follow up question: from that link /blog/ will the spiders suss out all the other pages within it, or should those all be specified as much as possible too? IE, /blog/category/ /blog/date/ etc.

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

The search engines will carry on through the /blog/ folder but I would add the most important links anyway.

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

We recently purchased and implemented CDSEO hoping that the cannocical URL feature would overcome duplicate content errors from google but it seems that either its not configured correctly on our end or its not possible the way our short and long descriptions are setup.

Basically is there a way to force CDSEO or google to index only the last page - IE - the detailed description pages for each product?

Why - Because on our site the "short description and detailed description text are the same" for each product.

The problem is google see this as duplicate content or partially duplicate we suspect.

Example:
URL http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/kdp-51ws655/
Goes to Category "TV Repair Kits / Sony / Projection / KDP-51WS655"

At this category level there are two products listed for this Sony TV model. Each product is unique with unique descriptions....But if you drill down into each product the detailed description on those pages will match at least one of the products on the page before.

The detailed page for one of the products....

http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sony-kdp-51ws655-convergence-repair-kit.html

So at the very least google would see at least 50% of the content on the prior page as duplicate. If we had a dozen products in the root category it may not matter...but in most cases we have just one product or two.

I hope my description of the problem makes sense. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

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

Hi Mate,

Quick questions whioch is probably a bit random but thought i'd ask.

I use the ability template and at the top of the template I have a news ticker which displays news feeds from the news letter section of the site. Is there any way of integrating this or even replacing the data feed to display the new articles posted in xCMS?

The reason why I ask is that I used to use the newsletter function of xcart to display content like a blog on the site but now I use xCMS and would like to show updates of the new articles in the news feed rather than having to create a newsletter with a link to the article so it shows on the site.

Thanks

D-A

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

It should only be a matter of locating the section that loads the default news, and replacing it with the proper queries for xCMS. I don't know the Ability template off-hand to know where those edits would need to take place, but if you provide FTP to the support department (https://www.websitecm.com/support/) I can have a look and provide you a quote for the customization.

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

Thanks Jon, I'll have a wee gander at it myself today and see if I can figure it out. If not i'll be in touch.

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

Hi, Jon,

Having a few issues with the search engines:

- Manufacturers.php is not included in CDSEO url's so I can't customize any metatag;

- Both Google and Bing are still picking up the same page with and without the trailing slashes, causing duplicate content warning;

- Pages with sessions for some (not all) products are appearing as duplicate content on Google and Bing;

- Some pop-up image (Detailed Image) pages are being indexed with the same meta tags as the whole site causing duplicate meta tag warnings;

- In Google there are 362 pages leading to 404 errors. These have had their url modified in text or by removing the html extension and adding a trailing slash. Some are categories that went from .html to just /. Some are the category or manufacturer pages plus an extension, for example "necklaces-pendants/index4.html?js=n" What would be the recommended way to handle these redirects? The pages do exist but their url's changed after we went from the 4.1.9 version to 4.4.5 and upgraded CDSEO.

This is our robots.txt, maybe something is missing.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*printable=Y
Disallow: /*js=*
Disallow: /*sort=*
Disallow: /*sort_direction=*
Disallow: /product.php*
Disallow: /home.php?cat=*
Disallow: /catalog/
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /cart.php
Disallow: /help.php
Disallow: /giftcert.php
Disallow: /product.php
Disallow: /orders.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /icon.php
Disallow: /image.php
Disallow: /error_message.php
Disallow: /offers.php
Disallow: /product_image.php

Thank you very much for your help!

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

Dear Jon,

I renew my product title from time to time to best match the compatible models. But it seems that the CDSEO pro does not replace my urls, page titles, link titles, etc. although I have all enabled them in the set up page - replacement toggles. I have read the knowledge base and checked with my server and found no error you mentioned in the smarty tags. How do I fix it?

Best regards,
Henry

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

When you change your product title, you will have to specifically change the SEO information in CDSEO. We don't dynamically change SEO information when the product title changes, or it can cause serious SEO problems.

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

You would have to manually customize this page. It doesn't have an associated ID so isn't done in CDSEO.


See this tutorial for assistance:
http://www.websitecm.com/articles/x-cart-seo/x-cart-seo-urls-dont-slash-away-your-x-cart-seo-rankings/


CDSEO's use of the canonical link tag should prevent this. It may just be a matter of time before these are flushed out of the indexes but you'll want to keep an eye on them.


Whatever url these are being generated from (presumably popup_image.php) should be blocked in robots.txt. If you just recently added that robots.txt file it will take some time (especially with Bing) before they are deindexed.



If you've changed the urls and not used the CDSEO interface to do so, you'll have to specify 301 redirects in .htaccess:

Redirect 301 /old-url.html http://www.example.com/new-url/

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

Hi, Jon,

I did use CDSEO to redirect the url's. They seem to be dropping off now, though.

Not sure how to add the manufacturer pages to CDSEO. Is there a tutorial or instructions you can point me to, please?

Thanks again!

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

Here's a tutorial using the contact page as an example which can be modified for manufacturers: https://www.websitecm.com/support/default_import/Knowledgebase/Article/View/55/0/how-do-i-rewrite-contact-...-friendly-urls

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

HELP!

Implemented CDSEO on May 14th and since then sales and traffic to the site have plummeted starting on the 15th. Google webbaster tools show that our search impressions dropped by 75% in just a few days

Were at a loss as to why..What can cause this - URL rewrites, the sitemap, new robots.txt, etc

Is is possible to back CDSEO out gracefully? If so how?


Here is the .htaccess...

.htaccess
DirectoryIndex home.php index.php index.html index.htm

# If you would like X-Cart to show informative message for errors caused
# by opening of missing/deleted files (HTTP Error 404), please uncomment
# the line below.
# ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

# NOTE: If you installed X-Cart into a subfolder (for example, to /store folder, so
# it is available at http://www.example.com/store/home.php), you need to specify
# full relative path to the 404.php script, for example, as follows:
# ErrorDocument 404 /store/404.php

# Show default error document for 404 errors caused by opening of image/media files.
<Files ~ "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|js|css|swf|ico)$">
ErrorDocument 404 default
</Files>

ErrorDocument 401 default

# ------------------------------------
# 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 /xcart/

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
# ------------------------------------




Here is the robots.txt in place now...below is the one that was installed by CDSEO...


User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/



robots.txt from CDSEO install....backed it out recently just in case it was the issue...

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/
Disallow: /xcart/*printable=Y
Disallow: /xcart/*js=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort_direction=*
Disallow: /xcart/product.php*
Disallow: /xcart/home.php?cat=*
Disallow: /xcart/catalog/
Disallow: /xcart/search.php
Disallow: /xcart/cart.php
Disallow: /xcart/help.php
Disallow: /xcart/giftcert.php
Disallow: /xcart/product.php
Disallow: /xcart/orders.php
Disallow: /xcart/register.php
Disallow: /xcart/icon.php
Disallow: /xcart/image.php
Disallow: /xcart/error_message.php
Disallow: /xcart/offers.php
Disallow: /xcart/product_image.php
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml.gz

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

Second question....


We recently purchased and implemented CDSEO hoping that the cannocical URL feature would overcome duplicate content errors from google but it seems that either its not configured correctly on our end or its not possible the way our short and long descriptions are setup.

Basically is there a way to force CDSEO or google to index only the last page - IE - the detailed description pages for each product and not the short description page?

Why - Because on our site the "short description and detailed description text are the same" for each product.

The problem is google see this as duplicate content or partially duplicate we suspect.

Example:
URL http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/kdp-51ws655/
Goes to Category "TV Repair Kits / Sony / Projection / KDP-51WS655"

At this category level there is a products listed for this Sony TV model. If you drill down intothe product the detailed description on that pages will match the one on the page page before.

The detailed page for one of the products....


So at the very least google would see at least some of the content on the prior page as duplicate. If we had a dozen products in the root category it may not matter...but in most cases we have just one product or two.

I hope my description of the problem makes sense. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
__________________
Xcart 4.2.1
Xcart 4.1.9

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

The only time we've seen a substantial drop related to rankings upon CDSEO installation is when someone changed from a custom url structure and didn't implement 301 redirects manually. CDSEO by default 301 redirects the default php, clean urls, and html catalog links.


In 8 years we've never had a report of a substantial drop related to anything else. The time frame does coincide somewhat with the Google Penguin update that happened at the end of April/May so the issue may be unrelated.

I am seeing 38,000+ of your pages index so indexing certainly isn't the problem.

If you send me FTP and X-Cart admin access via our support desk I will review your CDSEO setup to make sure it was done correctly.

Duplicate content is an issue with your short/long description setup, but alone shouldn't cause such a drop. If you wanted to deindex these you could turn of url replacement for categories in the CDSEO Admin section and then block home.php?cat=* via robots.txt

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

Thanks Jon for the quick reply. We agree - its very unusual which is why were concerned. Were not sure if its a config mistake on our end or some odd new Google penalty for having a ton of URL changes all at once since it went from dynamic php type urls to cleaner html versions. The dates also do not line up exactly with the April 24 penguin update..which makes it even more of a mystery.

Duplicate content - thanks for the suggestion - that makes sense - we will look into rewriting the short/long descriptions or just block the category level all together.

As always - thanks for the great support on the product.

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

Jon, I am desperately in need of help. We have been using your fantastic CDSEO Pro on two of our site, it is one software we can not do without, however, 1&1 updated their server environment this morning, and since our CDSEO Pro created links do not work. I have sent a ticket through your website, however, I'm also turning to this forum in desperation in case anyone else is on 1&1 who may have had similar problem.

Is anyone else who uses 1&1 had similar problem since they updated server environment? Currently all CDSEO created pages shows error 500.

Here's an example page,

http://www.holdersandmounts.co.uk/camera-mounts-and-holders/

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

First think - you should immediatelly turn off CDSEO so your site can work with dynamic urls.
Second - contact 1&1 about this issue as it is most likely to be a server issue and not CDSEO
Third thing to do - move away from 1&1. They are not good for XC or ecommerce at all

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

Steve, thank you. CDSEO Pro is now disabled, and site is working on dynamic urls. I will give 1&1 a call to see what may have gone wrong. Very annoying as my google feed uses CDSEO pro html links, amongst everything else and to be honest, I would like CDSEO Pro to be working once again sooner than soon. Just waiting for WebsiteCM to reply through their support pages.

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

My first guess is that they don't have mod_rewrite enabled after the update. It would be easier to tell if they looked at the apache error logs.

I also agree that 1&1 aren't the best hosts for ecommerce.

Carrie

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

Hi Jon, I took your advice and left the secondary url blank. When i try to auto populate it, nothing happens and now i have 29 categories without a custom CDSEO url. (although my site does show the correct url)

Second issue that puzzles me is that Bing get the site map but it does not crawl the pages so i need to resubmit it manually.
no results from ask.com ping it remains blank.

Thanks.

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

Hi,


Anyone could help me get rid off this part of codes above CDSE Pro dashboard.
See pic attached.

Thanks
Lucas

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

Looks like you are using Pro V1.6.2, Im not sure if that version is compatible with php 5.3
You probably should upgrade to the latest release.

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

Hi,

I've been using this version since upgrading to php 5.3.
and everything working smoothly apart this code. I would like to remove this code only for cosmetic matter.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Meta Desc Symbols
 

Does CDSEO prop allow meta description symbols ? - is it just a case of typing in the code ? - does CDSEO recognise them ?

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

I'm trying to change the 'company name' in page titles auto-populated by cdseo.

I used following instructions as provided in knowledgebase.
---------------------------------------------
Open modules/cdseolinks/cdseo_config.php

FIND:
?>


BEFORE ADD:
// WCM - Customization to replace company name in page title
// Be sure to change "New Title" to the text you want to appear
if ($cdseopage == 'auto-population' OR $_GET['cdseopage'] == 'auto-population')
db_query("UPDATE wcm_cdseo set cdseoTitle = replace(cdseoTitle,'- " . trim($config[Company][company_name]) . "','- New Title')");
// / WCM - Customization to replace company name in page title
---------------------------------------------

I applied auto-population again after following above instructions. However the company name did not change in page titles.

Anybody tried this? Appreciate help.

EDIT: This works with newly added products only. However does not work for existing ones.

Anybody has any clue to get this work for existing product titles?

Thank you.

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

Can you look into doing rich snippets for xCMS? e.g Author etc.

Thanks :D

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

My store is configured for non-www url in xcart config.php

So, www.mysite.com and https://www.mysite.com redirect to mysite.com and https://mysite.com respectively.

My question is:

1. I have both mysite.com and www.mysite.com added to google webmaster tools.

2. After adding the same sitemap to both last week,

• only 1 page has been indexed for mysite.com, and
• 1600 plus pages have been indexed for www.mysite.com

How should I interpret this? My search results have not improved much yet.


I appreciate any explanation/suggestions . Thank you.

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

You should specify the domain without www in your google webmaster tools and put in redirect code from the www to the non-www if that's the version you want to use. Here's a link to a tutorial about setting up a preference: http://www.websitecm.com/articles/x-cart-seo/www-seo-pick-a-domain-preference/

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

We're definitely considering rich snippets.

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

If your company name has changed since you first autopopulated then you need to change the code with the text you want to remove.

Re: CDSEO Pro - Meta Desc Symbols
 

You can use html numbers and html names, &copy; for a copyright symbol for example.

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

Open the admin/cdseopro/index.php file and at the top before <?php add:

<?php
error_reporting(0);
?>

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

The autopopulation is fine, it won't show the secondary url but it will use the /index2.html, /index3.html etc. as you requested. The Bing issue is puzzling. Have you authenticated your site with Bing?

Ask.com changed recently, we are aware of this and will be making changes to accommodate in the next release.

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

Working like a charm.
Thanks a lot

Removing https from search engine
 

Hello,

When searching "site:http://mysite.com" on google, I saw https version of my webpages indexed.

Is it wise to remove https version of the webpages to avoid duplicate content as search engine may also have http version of the same pages indexed?

How should I go about removing https: from search engines?

Highly appreciate any suggestions/tips.