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Originally Posted by tam10

I have CDSEO v.1.8.0

Question regarding the secondary pages URL Structure for category

I put in the CDSEO Url:
/category/index2.html

After saving it becomes
/category/index2/

This results in duplicate page with.html and without

My question is
1. Shouldn't url be with .html ending
2. do i need to Disabled Url and if yes which one?

If someone can help me understand it would be greatly appreciated.

"Do not include .html, a trailing slash, or any other extension. Extensions are automatically adjusted by the program settings."

[Jon]

If you don't add a secondary page, it will become /category/index2.html by default, so there's no need to customize that. Customize it if you want it to be: /a-secondary-set-of-keywords/ instead of /primary-set-of-keywords/

[DogByteMan]

Love the improvements in newest release. However links coming in like --- product.php?productid=30399&cat=596&page=11 --- are now returning --- ...red.html?&cat=596. Have I forgot to setup something?

[Jon]

Originally Posted by DogByteMan

Love the improvements in newest release. However links coming in like --- product.php?productid=30399&cat=596&page=11 --- are now returning --- ...red.html?&cat=596. Have I forgot to setup something?

CDSEO strips off the page variable as it isn't needed, but I was finding some people were having issues with the cat variable because developers were coding using the category variable from the query string variable of the url (bad x-cart practice IMO). For this reason I intentionally continued to pass the cat variable via the url when redirecting dynamic product urls.

I can do this in CDSEO because the SEO structure of CDSEO prevents this from being a problem. It doesn't hurt SEO in anyway because CDSEO:

Uses canonical links so search engines index the proper url (without the cat variable)

Replaces all of the on page dynamic variables

Replaces all of the dynamic variables in the xml sitemap, the froogle feed, etc.

For these reasons, the redirects aren't a problem and generally those urls will quickly become non-existent once CDSEO is installed.

[tam10]

Originally Posted by Jon

If you don't add a secondary page, it will become /category/index2.html by default, so there's no need to customize that. Customize it if you want it to be: /a-secondary-set-of-keywords/ instead of /primary-set-of-keywords/

I am trying to get rid of the duplicate Meta Description and title tags of the categories.
So when adding secondary page what do i need to do in order to have a friendly url?

[Jon]

Originally Posted by tam10

I am trying to get rid of the duplicate Meta Description and title tags of the categories.
So when adding secondary page what do i need to do in order to have a friendly url?

Correct.

[tam10]

Originally Posted by Jon

Correct.

correct ? can you explain?

[Jon]

Sorry. It will have a friendly url already, but if you want it to be distinguished as a totally different page, you would give it a totally different url.

Lets say you had a category called "Collar Charms" with a url of /collar-charms/" you might have a second page with a url "/charms-for-pet-collars/" etc.

[tam10]

Originally Posted by Jon

Sorry. It will have a friendly url already, but if you want it to be distinguished as a totally different page, you would give it a totally different url.

Lets say you had a category called "Collar Charms" with a url of /collar-charms/" you might have a second page with a url "/charms-for-pet-collars/" etc.

Just to be sure i am undertanding
so url ending with category/index2/ it's ok ?

[tqualizerman]

Hi Jon,

If I've created a custom .PHP modules can you advise if/how I can get CDSEO Pro to control the URLs generated by it?