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

CDSEO has definitive advantages with several more in the works. If we didn't charge for upgrade development we wouldn't be able to afford to continue to support the module!

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

Hey Jon,
I'd appreciate a response to my support tickets as well as they are dealing with items/files needed asap for xcart to install with my upgrade to 4.6
TZV-417-98413
TZV-417-98413
IVY-735-32153

Thanks
Ryan

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

I am working my way through tickets. As we were not given any notice about 4.6 by Qualiteam, we are having to finish existing workload and try and fit 4.6 compatibility into an already packed development schedule, a such, modules are not yet 4.6 compatible and may be another couple weeks before they are all compatible. CDSEO and xCMS will be first priority.

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

I need to find a way of changing the canonical link that CDSEO sets for the category and manufacturer pages > 1.

I'm following the guidance provided by Google with regard to a series of content http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/view-all-in-search-results.html For category and manufacturer pages I have a "view all" page (first_page_url/?show_all), which contains the super-set of content for the entire category, and the guidance states that each page > 1 should have a canonical pointing to the URL of the first page - currently cdseo sets the canonical to the pages own URL.

I don't wish to open a can of worms regarding the "correct" use of canonicals and whether I should be using rel="next/prev" although I know people have strong views on this, I am simply following the instructions of our SEO company who wish our pages > 1 to have a canonical pointing to the first page.

Any ideas on how to set the canonical for pages > 1 to be the URL of the first page? I had a go at making the changes in home.php but CDSEO Pro over-rides my code!!

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

Disabling the "Enable canonical tags" setting within CDSEO Pro stopped my new code from being over-ridden so I've now got the resultant behaviour I require :D/

Re: .xml sitemap question with CDSEO
 

I'm using CDSEO and see that I can create a gzip version of the .xml sitemap. My server has gzip enabled.

1. Is there a benefit to using the sitemap.xml.gz version instead of just the regular sitemap.xml?
2. If I enable the .gz version, should I then delete the regular sitemap.xml (and vice versa)? I noticed when I generated the .gz version, the regular sitemap contents were cleared. I then generated the regular version again and now have both files with sitemaps loaded.

I want to be clear on this. I'm concerned having an empty sitemap file, or having both the zipped and unzipped sitemaps may cause SEO problems?

3. If I end up using both, should I point to both in my robots file??

Re: .xml sitemap question with CDSEO
 

The benefit to the xml.gz is that the file size is smaller. This is helpful for sites with many urls or sites that have low bandwidth for their hosting. In general however it is not necessary.

You don't want to have both the xml and the sitemap.xml.gz populated. You should use one or the other, only add one to your robots.txt, and make sure that file is specified properly in your Google webmasters account.

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

I will be adding different options for this to an upcoming CDSEO release.

Re: .xml sitemap question with CDSEO
 

Thanks Jon, very helpful.

Is it better to delete the file or open it and delete the content? (Generating the normal sitemap.xml again didn't take the content out of the .gz file.) It seems funny that it's okay to have an empty sitemap file, yet I dont want to mess things up for CDSEO.

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

Either way is fine as long as it isn't linked to. Personally I would delete the contents of it.