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

DavyMac · #**791** 08-04-2013, 05:56 AM

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:

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

Jon · #**792** 08-04-2013, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by costanza

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.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by costanza

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".

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

Jon · #**793** 08-04-2013, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavyMac

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:

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

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.

Jon · #**794** 08-04-2013, 01:52 PM

Also wanted to mention, CDSEO is now 4.6 compatible.

Jon · #**795** 08-04-2013, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by costanza

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

I've put the knowledge base redirects in place.

Jon · #**796** 08-07-2013, 03:51 PM

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.

Freakmode · #**797** 08-19-2013, 01:33 AM

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.

Jon · #**798** 08-19-2013, 01:36 AM

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

Freakmode · #**799** 08-19-2013, 01:59 AM

Splendid - thanks for the quick fix.

Should you not be in bed right now?

costanza · #**800** 09-01-2013, 02:07 PM

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.