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

John,

Building my new website and have already installed WordPress as it needs a blog. I then realized that the integration between X-Cart and WP is not great and I want to make sure that my site structure and tools can work on blog pages, same as product pages, same as static pages. Soooo, I have multiple questions:

1) If I use CDSEO and XCMS together, will the blog pages be treated like static pages.
2) Does the XCMS use the same MySQL database as X-Cart or is it an entirely different one?
3) Will the search utility work for blog pages as well as product pages as well as static pages?
4) I bought CDSEO in the past for my website www.trezora.com and was able to configure my URL to look like www.trezora.com/category/subcat1/subcat2/product. Do I now need Category SEO Map to do this?
5) I would like for my static and blog pages to also follow the same structure as described in 4 for products. Is that possible with the latest versions of these modules?
6) Is the advanced breadcrumb mod necessary or has X-cart improved that in 4.6?

Many questions, but appreciate the help.

Finally, I realize that CDSEO for 4.6 will not be ready until the end of the month, but will you still be running your combo deals then or should I buy now (4.5) and upgrade to 4.6 (for free?) at the end of the month?

Best,

Mendy
New website is www.skyfallmeteorites.com

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

xCMS integrates with CDSEO to provide all the custom features provided by CDSEO including page titles, urls, and meta tags.


It uses the same database.


xCMS does not integrate with the product search or static pages of default X-Cart. I will be adding a search feature to xCMS within about 6 months time.


This can be created by simply typing the url you want for the product in including category/subcategory format, or you can request a CDSEO module I can send you that will create products in this format.


X-Cart has static pages by default. The blog pages are not the same as static pages. xCMS provides /blog-category/blog-subcategory/blog-title.html URL format as a default option.


X-Cart has not modified the way they do breadcrumbs.


You can do either, the discount will be available always for people who purchase CDSEO and then want to purchase xCMS.

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

Link titles are a form of hyper optimization. They are used to describe the link and have SEO benefit, but it is very minor in the grand scheme of SEO. Typically using the product name or category name here is sufficient. The idea with these is that the text should describe the page being accessed by clicking on the link.

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

wcm is the best x-cart third party company for seo, for hot and must have modules

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

I suggest wcm to for modification and for seo modules to everybody .
they will help you to rank faster and they will help you with any question you may have for x-cart .

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

Thanks Jon, I've just sent you a message through Support ticket.

Sandip

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

hi, jon, my register.php has no ssl lockpad, if look up the page source, there are two http:, are they the reason caused lost of the lockpad:



<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="http://www.iphonecasestudio.com/favicon.ico" />

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.iphonecasestudio.com/" />

thanks
albert

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

It is the favicon call. The other one doesn't matter. Most likely you have absolute url coded for the favicon call, change it to relative and it will work

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

hi, steve, do you know how to change it, i just upload my favicon to replace the xcart one, it seems there is no specific page to identify it's path, very appreciate for your help.

albert

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

Try home.tpl or meta.tpl. You can use the webmaster mode to find the exact template if not one of these

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

look in
/skin/common_files/customer/service_head.tpl

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

yes, i found them in meta.tpl, could you advise how to secure it:

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{$current_location}/favicon.ico" />


many thanks
albert

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

hi, steve, i changed it to:

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{$AltImagesDir}/custom/favicon.ico" />


but the page source still show even i cleared the cache, do you have any idea why

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="http://www.iphonecasestudio.com/favicon.ico" />

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

hi, steve, i solved it but the lockpad still not show, there are couple links in http:, are the the factor block the ssl lockpad:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.iphonecasestudio.com/" />

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<a href="http://www.geotrust.com/ssl/" target="_blank" style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none; font:bold 7px verdana,sans-serif; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:center; margin:0px; padding:0px;"></a></td>
</tr>


<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
//]]>
</script>

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

i solved most of the insecured item, now only left one "canonical " which locate in /skin/common_files/customer/service_head.tpl


{if $config.SEO.canonical eq 'Y'}
<link rel="canonical" href="{$current_location}/{$canonical_url}" />
{/if}


this show: <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.iphonecasestudio.com/"



does anyone advise how to fix it, very appreciated, thanks

albert

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

The canonical tag won't be triggering the lock-pad issue. It should be left as is.

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

hi, jon, but it's so weir that my register.php do not show ssl lockpad, only show when click the login.php, i compared two page source, only the register.php show one more http: than login.php,if not, could you advise what else would cause it, thanks

albert

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

It could be something included from another file. An image called from a CSS for example. Try http://www.whynopadlock.com/

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

hi, jon, my all images are now hard coded, but still no green lockpad, i pass in whynopadlock.com but when clicking the register.php, still no lock, i check the login.php which has lockpad vs register.php that there is one more http: than login.php is the canonical:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.iphonecasestudio.com/"

i believe it's this caused it, any idea how to hard coded it in service head, thanks

albert

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

https://www.iphonecasestudio.com/register.php is showing a green lockpad for me.

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

but when i directly click on register button, it's not for me, that is so weir:

http://www.iphonecasestudio.com/register.php

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

unless i click the log in first and go back to register.php, otherwise it's not there

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

I just ordered the bundle of CDSEO and xCMS. As a quick note the page on your site that shows the combo + install adds up to $290 while the checkout is for $295.

Also, can you please also install the module that will create URLs for products in the following format: www.mywebsite.com/category/subcat1/subcat2/product

I had asked about this and you said that was available as part of the response in this thread.

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

It's simply not a secure link. When you are not on a secure page and click Sign In you are taken to a secure login page. Now if you click Register it leaves you on a secure connection.

If you always want the Register link to be secure then you'll want to change the code for that link. Or maybe you are expecting to always be redirected to the secure version of that page and a customization is not allowing that. Double-check your Security settings in the store admin.

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

Good observation Cherie!

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

Thank you very much for pointing that out. I apologize for any confusion. I've updated the product page accordingly and sent you a personal email with thanks as well as order information.

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

Hi Jon, I seem to have the above problem and the solution link you provided, brings a 404 error from your site.

The forum shortens the above link - this is the problem where, in x-cart you select re-direct from https: to http, and it brings up a 404 error with CDSEO in the address bar.

I assume its a good idea to redirect from secure pages when they are not needed??? Do you have the solution available somewhere else now?

Thanks!

EDIT: Sorry, just found the link from your page here: https://www.websitecm.com/support/index.php?Base/Search/Index

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

I'm in the process of upgrading our support desk and it changed the links. I'll make sure some redirects are in place.

I'm also going through all the knowledge base entries to make sure they are accurate :)

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

i suggest this module to everybody
the best module for x-cart

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

Thanks Jon,

There is that one nagging problem with X-cart code; with "Clean URLs" disabled (CDSEO enabled), X-cart auto changes the Clean URL to match the title. I tried the code fix in your help files and I couldn't get it to work.

I will be adding CDSEO to a second site soon and I'm hoping that code can be looked at. I will most likely always stay with CDSEO, but just in case you get rich Jon and retire on us (heaven forbid!), I'm not sure how I would ever switch back to "Clean URLs".

By the way, the code mentioned a few posts above, to fix the re-directing problem of https to http, worked for me.

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

It has been highlighted to me that my site's redirect from the secure version of a page to the non-secure version isn't as clean as I once thought.

When going from https:// to http:// like everyone else I thought that the move was like: https://www.mydomain/page/ to http://www.mydomain/page/ via redirect 301 but what actually happens takes place over three steps:

1. https://www.mydomain/page/ 302: Temporary redirect to http://www.mydomain/page?xid_98734=<hex number>
2. http://www.mydomain/page?xid_98734=<hex number> 301: Permanent redirect to http://www.mydomain/page/?xid_98734=<hex number>
3. http://www.mydomain/page/?xid_98734=<hex number> 302: Temporary redirect to http://www.mydomain/page/

Since the intermediate pages are blocked to search engines I'm not sure this will actually cause any problems? :?

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

The code in the knowledge base should work, you may want to check to ensure the edits were made and saved properly and ensure that clean urls is disabled.

If you don't have any clean urls indexed, this is a non-issue. It's only an issue if you have clean urls indexed and need those urls to redirect to the CDSEO url.


Don't worry, even if I won the lottery tomorrow I would never abandon everyone :)

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

X-Cart handles these redirects and takes the sessionid and passes it from the https domain to the http domain. Presumably this is for sites that have a shared SSL. It's not ideal for SEO.

I'm working on a huge list of CDSEO improvements and new features and have added the possibility of properly redirecting http to https when the SSL is on the same domain.

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

Also wanted to mention, CDSEO is now 4.6 compatible.

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

I've put the knowledge base redirects in place.

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

CDSEO Admin addon is now also 4.6 compatible.
http://www.websitecm.com/downloads/cdseo-pro-admin-addon.zip

This is a free mod that allows you to modify CDSEO values from the X-Cart Admin Add/Modify screens.

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

Can anyone give me a link on how to install CDSEO for 4.6 manually (what files to change)

Followed the install on the distrib but although it loads it patched no files so I need do them manually.

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

Instructions can be found at http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/cdseo-pro-x-cart-seo.html#tab9 in the FAQ under Can I view the CDSEO installation instructions?

The direct links are:

CDSEO for X-Cart 4.1.x - 4.3.x
http://www.websitecm.com/downloads/cdseo-installation-4.1.x-4.3.x.html

CDSEO for X-Cart 4.4.x+
http://www.websitecm.com/downloads/cdseo-installation-4.4.x-4.6.x.html

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

Splendid - thanks for the quick fix.

Should you not be in bed right now?

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

1. I just installed CDSEO on a new 4.6 site. This site has never had CDSEO.

Is it not possible to use all the "clean url" values from X-cart?

2. I just did your code change to stop x-cart from 'auto changing' the "clean url" & it did not work. Unfortunately this is 2 sites I have that it did not work on - the clean urls auto change to match the title whenever you edit a page.