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Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

I just installed this mod and it is working as far as meta tags go. However it is not changing the links from php to html. Anyone have this problem as well or know a solution? Thanks.

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

If you have problems with special characters in URLS you can change function normalize_name in Outputfilter.seo.php with next lines:

Outputfilter.seo.php

Code:

        function _normalize_name($name, $search=false) {

                $this->_cur_name = '';

                $name = trim($name);

                $name=strtr($name,"┼▄▌ °·÷╔╣юабцдефгхийклмнопярстужьызшэщъЮАБЦДЕФГХИЙКЛМНОПЯРСТУЖЬЫЗШЭЩЪ",

                        "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");

                if (!$search){

                        $this->_cur_name = preg_replace($this->_norm_match, $this->_norm_repl, substr($name, 0, $this->_max_name_length));

                        return strtolower($this->_cur_name);

                }else{

                        $string = explode(' ',$name);

                        $name = array();

                        foreach($string AS $k=>$v){

                                $name[] = $this->_normalize_name($v);

                        }

                        $name = substr(implode('+',$name), 0, $this->_max_name_length);

                        $this->_cur_name = strtolower(str_replace('+',' ',$name));

                        return strtolower($name);

                        

                }

        }

Code:

        function _normalize_name($name, $search=false) {

                $this->_cur_name = '';

                $name = trim($name);



                $find = array("č"," ","·","Č","┼","▌","đ","Đ","ć","Ć");

                $replace = array("c","s","z","c","s","z","d","d","c","c");



                $name = str_replace($find, $replace, $name); 





                $name=strtr($name,"┼▄▌ °·÷╔╣юабцдефгхийклмнопярстужьызшэщъЮАБЦДЕФГХИЙКЛМНОПЯРСТУЖЬЫЗШЭЩЪ",

                        "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");

                if (!$search){

                        $this->_cur_name = preg_replace($this->_norm_match, $this->_norm_repl, substr($name, 0, $this->_max_name_length));

                        return strtolower($this->_cur_name);

                }else{

                        $string = explode(' ',$name);

                        $name = array();

                        foreach($string AS $k=>$v){

                                $name[] = $this->_normalize_name($v);

                        }

                        $name = substr(implode('+',$name), 0, $this->_max_name_length);

                        $this->_cur_name = strtolower(str_replace('+',' ',$name));

                        return strtolower($name);

                        

                }

        }

There is some cloaking going on in this script...

Why exactly? Does that not present the danger of being pennalized?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cefko

There is some cloaking going on in this script...

Why exactly? Does that not present the danger of being pennalized?

what do you mean? you also talk very mysterious... :o

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

The script generates different URLs for normal browsers and different URLs for robots (GoogleBot.. Yahoo, etc).

The "customer URL" to the product on category page has page number and category number in it, and "robots URL" does not have that.

How can you see that?
If you came to product from category it looks like this
http://www.soundchoicestore.com/brick-karaoke-c-18-p-1-pr-651.html
and it is UNRANKED in google (NO PR)

But if you search for the same product/url in google, you'll find URL
http://www.soundchoicestore.com/brick-karaoke-pr-651.html with PR2

These means that script is serving different URLs to customers and different to robots.
It is called cloaking and it is what big SE frown upon. Although is very minor cloaking, but are you prepared to take chances with it?

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Dear Cefko,

I applied your solution but still my urls are showing like i dont make any changes.
i modified the code under modules/xcseo
e.g

havuz-boyalary-c-8.html

i want this show like

havuz-boyalari-c-8.html

Code:

function _normalize_name($name, $search=false) {

                $this->_cur_name = '';

                $name = trim($name);



                $find = array("İ","ı");

                $replace = array("i","i");

                

                $name = str_replace($find, $replace, $name); 





                $name=strtr($name,"ŠŒŽšœžŸ¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ",

                        "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");

                if (!$search){

                        $this->_cur_name = preg_replace($this->_norm_match, $this->_norm_repl, substr($name, 0, $this->_max_name_length));

                        return strtolower($this->_cur_name);

                }else{

                        $string = explode(' ',$name);

                        $name = array();

                        foreach($string AS $k=>$v){

                                $name[] = $this->_normalize_name($v);

                        }

                        $name = substr(implode('+',$name), 0, $this->_max_name_length);

                        $this->_cur_name = strtolower(str_replace('+',' ',$name));

                        return strtolower($name);

                        

                }

        }

Thank you

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

I just wanted to say thank you very much for the terrific mod! Very appreciative.

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

no need to add any additional code to fit your language special chars

just on Outputfilter.seo.php

Code:





$name=strtr($name,"ŠŒŽšœžŸ¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏĞÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜİßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïğñòóôõöøùúûüıÿİIı",

                        "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyyiii");

just change this line to suit your needs.

For example i add İIi to change to iii at the end of the line bolded

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Yes I tried that... but it didn't work for my characters, it seemed like strtr does not recognize my characters.

I will try again though

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Has anyone tried this mod with settings in Smart.class.php

var $force_compile = false; ?

If i set this to "FALSE" which should greatly increase speed, every page that loads is the same, they don't change anymore.

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2019

no need to add any additional code to fit your language special chars

just on Outputfilter.seo.php

Code:





$name=strtr($name,"┼▄▌ °·÷╔╣юабцдефгхийклмноĞярстужьызшэİъЮАБЦДЕФГХИЙКЛМНОğЯРСТУЖЬЫЗШЭıЪİIı",

                        "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyyiii");

just change this line to suit your needs.

For example i add İIi to change to iii at the end of the line bolded

a new problem with the encoding fix
google caches incorrect urls not this ones
still on google my urls are incorrect chars
where to edit the code to fix for robots to see my corrected chars.
sorry for bad english tonight sleepless night insomnia please release me :(

thank you

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Cefko, the "cloaking" is to avoid duplicate urls in search engines. There are multiple possible paths to a product page, especially when there exist multiple categories for a single product. The best way to avoid this issue with SEs, is to force them to see only 1 primary path.

If you can find an employee of Google that says this method is truly bad, let me know :-)

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

XC SEO v1.2.0 has been released

If you have a version of X-Cart other than 4.1.7 installed, please proceed with caution, as other releases are not currently supported (no "major" changes have occurred, but I've only tested this release with 4.1.7, and I have only provided install documentation for 4.1.7)

You can get it at the following url:
http://code.google.com/p/x-cart-seo/

Please use the Issues section to post any problems that you may have:
http://code.google.com/p/x-cart-seo/issues/list/

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Hi every one
just installed xc-seo 1.2.0 on x-cart 4.1.7
the installation was smooth and flaw less.
minimum modifications
I used the newly introduced installation method I
all the urls for catagories are changed.

but I am not seeing changes in static pages urls.

Can any one confirm about status of static pages or I am the only one seeing this problem.

Thanks to developer for this excelent mod.

Edit----------------

I mixed up help pages with static pages.

Mod is working for static pages too.
Thanks for clarifiction intel352.

raj

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

thanks for the good review, and i'll check into the static pages issue. cheers ;-)

EDIT: I just now added a static page, it was rewritten properly on the page that I was viewing as a link, I clicked on it, it showed up in the URL properly as well

PM me with your site url, I'll take a look

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Just for clarification, raj was expecting help pages to be rewritten as well. Currently, this is not the case, only static pages, product pages, categories, manufacturers, and search pages are rewritten.

Help pages may be a feature for future use, we'll see

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Do you think is a good idea to also include short product desc to the adress?

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

that would likely be good keywords, but it seems that would get too lengthy, fast

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

can someone help out with the code for displaying also short descriptions?

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

where are you wanting short descriptions to display? please give examples, describe what you're wanting in detail please

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Let me get this right, by installing this module, I won't have to ever create an html catalog again? Does this or the other dynamic applications actually create the pages in a folder, or does it name it on the fly for every single page thats loaded? The reason I ask is that I have 150,000 items in my store and if it were to create all of these pages in the same folder, it would slow the site down very much and cause problems. This was my whole issue with the html catalog module that comes with xcart. I can't have 150,000 different html files in the same folder. I need to make my site search engine friendly and make it crawlable. Will the xc seo do this, or do I need to purchase one of the other software solutions?

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

This mod is on-the-fly, allows you to have cleanly rewritten urls for all of your products, categories, etc. You can even insert a keyword or keyphrase (which is added to every url). Title tags are generated across all links, it rewrites Froogle links, and it also redirects people trying to access the old location, to the new rewritten location.

BTW, once you install this mod, you can easily enable/disable it, so it does no harm to have it :-)

/* This is intel352, fyi, posting under my alternate acct (developer acct for an employer), as 'intel352' is currently unavailable (transferred current license) - I'll have another license soon, and will post under that other acct when it's active */

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

BTW, the current release is only intended for X-Cart 4.1.7, so it's not compatible with your version of X-Cart.

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

which version do I need in order to be compatible with my version of x-cart? Also, which do you think is better? I have looked at CDSEO, XC SEO, and the other one that I don't remember the name. I don't care what it costs, but I need to know which versions work with my 4.0.16 and are stable and if they are worth the money. If you don't want to give me a straight answer on which one....maybe if you could give me a few pros and cons and let me decide by myself. Thanks for your help and input.

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

It's been awhile since I looked at the competing SEO products, but last I recall, DSEFU did not prevent duplicate URLs (people visiting the old url vs visiting the new url, it wouldn't redirect visitors that went to the old url)

CDSEO is good if you like to have a structure like:
/categoryname1
/categoryname1/productname1

vs XC SEO
/productname1.html
/categoryname1.html

XC SEO is open source (so you can modify the code or hire anyone you want to modify it) and free, CDSEO/DSEFU cost money and are closed source

As for your version of X-Cart, as-is right now, CDSEO is probably your best bet. If you would like XC SEO installed on your website though, I can take care of that for you, and ensure that it works properly with your version of X-Cart

or if you would rather install XC SEO yourself, and just have me make XC SEO compatible with your install version, just let me know

it's up to you. CDSEO provides install services for their product as well, I believe. for install services, most every1 has a flat rate, for customizations, rates usually go hourly

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

i put the contents of the secure.htaccess file in my htaccess file, ran the installer, and did the modifications to the right files, but the product pages keep coming up as not found

is there any other changes to the htaccess file that needs to be done? did i miss something?

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

there are 2 htaccess file contents: 1 is the .htaccess that actually handles the rewritten urls, the other is the secure.htaccess that can be used to help secure your X-Cart install (just a "recommended" addition)

make sure you have the content from the .htaccess provided in the package, added to your actual .htaccess file

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

there was one in the catalog directory, that got put in the same spot, but other than that there was just the secure.htaccess

can you post the right htaccess file for the newest version?

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

You'll need to re-download the zip file. As I posted last night, I downloaded the zip file and verified a .htaccess file existed, so it's there.

If you have associated the .htaccess file with an editor on your computer, and you're using winxp, you might not see a .htaccess file (winxp will display a file with no filename, because once .htaccess gets associated, winxp will hide the "known extension" unless you have disabled that feature)

let me know if that doesn't work.

Heck, nevermind, just click here :-) .htaccess file from the repository

http://x-cart-seo.googlecode.com/svn/branches/xc_seo_module/.htaccess

or copy from below

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On



# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be

# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)

# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path

# to your root xcart folder (i.e. RewriteBase /shop)

#RewriteBase /



# Enable the following 3 lines if you want to make sure

# all users use the www. version of your domain.

# Helps prevent cookie issues for some X-Cart installations

#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^YOURDOMAIN.com [NC] 

#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L]



##### XC SEO

# Rewrite SEO category URL's

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                $1home.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=0&cat=$3&page=$4                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$        $1home.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=1&cat=$3&page=$4                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                        $1home.php?printable=Y&cat=$2&page=$3                                                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                        $1home.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=0&cat=$3&page=$4                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                        $1home.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=1&cat=$3&page=$4                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                $1home.php?cat=$2&page=$3                                                                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-c-([0-9]+)\.html$                                $1home.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=0&cat=$3                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-c-([0-9]+)\.html$                                $1home.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=1&cat=$3                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-c-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                                $1home.php?printable=Y&cat=$2                                                                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-c-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                $1home.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=0&cat=$3                                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-c-([0-9]+)\.html$                                        $1home.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=1&cat=$3                                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-c-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                                        $1home.php?cat=$2                                                                                                        [QSA,L]



# Rewrite SEO manufacturers URL's

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-m-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                $1manufacturers.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=0&manufacturerid=$3&page=$4        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-m-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$        $1manufacturers.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=1&manufacturerid=$3&page=$4        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-m-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                        $1manufacturers.php?printable=Y&manufacturerid=$2&page=$3                                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-m-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                        $1manufacturers.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=0&manufacturerid=$3&page=$4                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-m-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                        $1manufacturers.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=1&manufacturerid=$3&page=$4                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-m-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                $1manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=$2&page=$3                                                                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-m-([0-9]+)\.html$                                $1manufacturers.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=0&manufacturerid=$3                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-m-([0-9]+)\.html$                                $1manufacturers.php?printable=Y&sort=$2&sort_direction=1&manufacturerid=$3                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-m-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                                $1manufacturers.php?printable=Y&manufacturerid=$2                                                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-up-m-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                $1manufacturers.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=0&manufacturerid=$3                                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-(productcode|title|price|orderby)-down-m-([0-9]+)\.html$                                        $1manufacturers.php?sort=$2&sort_direction=1&manufacturerid=$3                                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-m-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                                        $1manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=$2                                                                                                [QSA,L]



# Rewrite SEO product URL's

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)-pr-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                $1product.php?printable=Y&productid=$4&cat=$2&page=$3        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-c-([0-9]+)-p-([0-9]+)-pr-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                        $1product.php?productid=$4&cat=$2&page=$3                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-pr-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                        $1product.php?printable=Y&productid=$2                                        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-pr-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                                        $1product.php?productid=$2                                                                [QSA,L]



# Rewrite SEO static page URL's

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-print-pg-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                        $1pages.php?printable=Y&pageid=$2                                [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?[^/]+-pg-([0-9]+)\.html$                                                                                                                        $1pages.php?pageid=$2                                                        [QSA,L]



# Rewrite SEO search URL's

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?([^/]+)-search-c-([0-9]+)(-[^-]+)*\.html$                                                                                        $1search.php?mode=search&substring=$2&cat=$3        [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/)?([^/]+)-search(-[^-]+)*\.html$                                                                                                        $1search.php?mode=search&substring=$2                        [QSA,L]

##### / XC SEO

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlangevin

jlangevin,
Great mod, I have installed it and worked great, but for now I have turned it off....

My concern is the redirects in both the DSEFU and XC SEO. Now anyone which does SEO work knows that spammers have abused the redirects in the past (and still do today), so much that GoogleBot and the others are now not following redirects and/or penalizing sites for running redirects.

All good webpage or META Tag Analyzers will trigger an error or tell you the page is not accessible because you're running a redirected pages.

An example:
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html

Test one of your product redirected pages with that META Tag Analyzer and you will see, redirects are not what they are cut up to be now days.

What are your thoughts on this jlangevin or anyone else???

Any SEO masters in here that would like to give some in put???

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Regarding meta tag analyzers and whatnot, they often don't follow a redirect properly, which is why they often show your site as non-existent.

It's true that spammers use redirection for ill purposes, but Google is brighter than that. If you're not constantly redirecting, you should be fine. Once google hits an existing url that 301 redirects to the new page, it will realize the old url is defunct, and that the new url is the proper location to record.

Really, a 301 redirect is the only way that I've heard of to let google know of a url change, and also keep your page rank (it's supposed to transfer to the new url).

If you're concerned about the redirects, it shouldn't be difficult for you to modify the code to avoid the redirects, or maybe just use this mod on a brand new site (where there'd be no need to have any redirects whatsoever)

BTW, DSEFU does redirects? I was thinking it was DSEFU that didn't redirect at all, which meant users could visit your old url AND your new url, maybe they've updated their addon

rmoore, out of curiousity, did you install this mod on 4.1.3? If so, cool, as I only wrote documentation for 4.1.7 :-D

One thing you might want to doublecheck, is the Froogle enhancement, as the code for the froogle enhancement has changed on X-cart's end several times in the 4.1.x series

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlangevin

rmoore, out of curiousity, did you install this mod on 4.1.3? If so, cool, as I only wrote documentation for 4.1.7 :-D

One thing you might want to doublecheck, is the Froogle enhancement, as the code for the froogle enhancement has changed on X-cart's end several times in the 4.1.x series

Yes installed it in 4.1.3 with no issues....

After reading and reading and reading last night and this morning.. :lol:

Seems we are facing with a double edge sword here.

GoogleBot does not like redirects at all, not saying they will not index your redirected pages, but you will not get the ranking points that you would have using non redirected pages.

That's why Google still has spammer pages indexed, but those spammer pages you rarely see on top and they are WAY back in the returns...

Now flip the sword over, and GoogleBot also does not like dynamic urls and again not saying you won't get great ranking using dynamic urls, but I'm sure you would get a better rank if you used static html urls.

My problem is that the website I'm dealing with has been around for a while and have OK rank in Google, Yahoo, and MSN (Microsoft Live :roll:). So really I'm looking at this double edge sord and wondering what side of the blade is going to hurt me the most....

Also, I really do not know about DSEFU. I thought it was like the XC SEO where it just rewrites the url and redirects to that rewrote url.

Of course I do not want to hijack this thread with SEO talk, but sure would like to get your guys/gals thoughts on this issue.

:D/

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Thank you very much for the free mod. I love it, especially being able to simply to turn it off (of course I have to pick a setting now of course, lol). But can anyone share their thoughts on the following:

Speed (if you have moderate to heavy traffic with 3000+ products), does it slow down your server? I'm talking about 700 to 1000 unique visitors/day? I realize its going to be more load on the server, but I'm curious if someone with a large site/traffic can tell me your experience.

We're re-doing one of our stores from ground up, and have always done well with just the generated catalog. Of course the catalog is just a pain since we make changes all the time to product options, certain items, etc. and is just not practicle.

Thanks

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

I haven't seen this mod in use on a large store yet (biggest I know of are the 2 in the first thread post, for SoundChoiceStore and Leukstewinkel (sp?) )

what you could do, is record page load time, server load, # visitors, etc, in your peak load time, and then switch on the mod, and check the stats again :-)

i think most of the big shops already had a commercial SEO mod installed when XC SEO came out, but it would be nice to have a list of websites that are using the mod.

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Thanks for the info. Yeah, probably going to just have to wait and see. I hate to get all our products google'd and then have to switch later. :(

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

I'm working on a "support" site for XC SEO, so hopefully we'll be able to get store owner experiences recorded there.

do you have an ETA for your store rebuild completion?

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluecat

Thanks for the info. Yeah, probably going to just have to wait and see. I hate to get all our products google'd and then have to switch later. :(

Well you could always switch to a better server or host. One with a 1000Mbps server uplink. Most every host out there only have 100Mbps uplinks.

Dual 3.4GHz processors
4GB DDR @ 667MHz
and 1000Mbps uplink

Nothing going to slow your site down enough to matter.... :wink:

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Ha, so do you own these companies or do you just like advertising :-) ;-)

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlangevin

Ha, so do you own these companies or do you just like advertising :-) ;-)

No..... Just trying to help..... I'll edit the post...

Re: XC SEO v1.1.0 Released

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlangevin

I'm working on a "support" site for XC SEO, so hopefully we'll be able to get store owner experiences recorded there.

do you have an ETA for your store rebuild completion?

Maybe 3 to 5 moths to get most of it up. I actually do have a second question/concern, if anyone can offer their opinion. I worry a bit about google's thoughts on rewrites. Does anyone have a concern with that at all?

Thanks again