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[Jon]

What's your CDSEO version? (It's in the top right of the admin section).

Can you give me an example of old and new urls and how you changed those urls?

[Jon]

CDSEO is now compatible with x-cart 4.5.

When upgrading to the x-cart 4.5 branch while using CDSEO, you will be able to maintain all of your SEO urls, titles, meta tags and other SEO information to retain your search engine optimization through the upgrade and ensuring urls remain the same. Just be sure CDSEO is installed on your 4.5 store and bring over the wcm_cdseo* tables when your database is upgraded.

You can upgrade at http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/cdseo-pro-x-cart-seo-pro-upgrade.html

[Duramax 6.6L]

Originally Posted by Jon

You'll get 3 months free upgrades from the time of purchase.

CDSEO and xCMS should be compatible this week.

I will put a ticket in for the updated files for CDSEO.

Does the xCMS have to be updated, or is it fine to install as is.

Thanks for your help

Frank

[Acquamarina]

Jon,

Is there a setting in CDSEO to help with this issue (Bing duplicates, errors and session id's)

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?p=339017#post339017

Thank you so much for all the help!

[Jon]

Originally Posted by Acquamarina

Jon,

Is there a setting in CDSEO to help with this issue (Bing duplicates, errors and session id's)

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?p=339017#post339017

Thank you so much for all the help!

See in that thread.

[vasilis]

There has been a customization in a site, whereby, the products in a manufacturer page are organized under their categories, ie, once the visitor clicks on a manufacturer, the page displays the categories that contain products from this manufacturer, and by clicking on a category, the visitor can view it's subcategories or it's products, depending on if it contains subcategories or just products, respectively. (According to the default functionality of x-cart, all products from the specific manufacturer are displayed on the same level, without being organized in their respective categories).

This site has the CDSEO Pro mod installed.

The problem is that the SEO friendly url's do not display in the links of these categories (go here, where under the 'Copper Creek' manufacturer, categories that contain products from this manufacturer are displayed), but instead, the default x-cart url's with category id numbers in the url parameters are displayed, (eg, instead of displaying SEO friendly url's like http://www.<domain name>/<manufacturer name>/<category name>, it displays something like, http://www.<domain name>/<manufacturer name>/?catid=234).

Is there a way to tweak the code somewhere in the module in order to display SEO friendly url's in the manufacturer product categories as well?

[Jon]

Originally Posted by vasilis

There has been a customization in a site, whereby, the products in a manufacturer page are organized under their categories, ie, once the visitor clicks on a manufacturer, the page displays the categories that contain products from this manufacturer, and by clicking on a category, the visitor can view it's subcategories or it's products, depending on if it contains subcategories or just products, respectively. (According to the default functionality of x-cart, all products from the specific manufacturer are displayed on the same level, without being organized in their respective categories).

This site has the CDSEO Pro mod installed.

The problem is that the SEO friendly url's do not display in the links of these categories (go here, where under the 'Copper Creek' manufacturer, categories that contain products from this manufacturer are displayed), but instead, the default x-cart url's with category id numbers in the url parameters are displayed, (eg, instead of displaying SEO friendly url's like http://www.<domain name>/<manufacturer name>/<category name>, it displays something like, http://www.<domain name>/<manufacturer name>/?catid=234).

Is there a way to tweak the code somewhere in the module in order to display SEO friendly url's in the manufacturer product categories as well?

Sorry there's no way to implement a manufacturer and category in a single url via CDSEO.

[ecollier2012]

CDSEO Version 1.8.3
Xcart 4.2.1

Is this normal or not? After installing CDSEO we are seeing a huge increase in errors on google webmaster tools. Given all their recent changes and penalizing sites with errors we are extra sensitive to these errors. So we need to know if something is broken in CDSEO or if this is normal.

Issue #1 ) Google now reports over 5K of blocked URL's from the new CDSEO robots.txt below

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/
Disallow: /xcart/*printable=Y
Disallow: /xcart/*js=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort_direction=*
Disallow: /xcart/product.php*
Disallow: /xcart/home.php?cat=*
Disallow: /xcart/catalog/
Disallow: /xcart/search.php
Disallow: /xcart/cart.php
Disallow: /xcart/help.php
Disallow: /xcart/giftcert.php
Disallow: /xcart/product.php
Disallow: /xcart/orders.php
Disallow: /xcart/register.php
Disallow: /xcart/icon.php
Disallow: /xcart/image.php
Disallow: /xcart/error_message.php
Disallow: /xcart/offers.php
Disallow: /xcart/product_image.php
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml.gz


Issue #2) Category files not indexed...

http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/home.php?cat=2959 reports that its "Denied by robots.txt" - We suspect this is to prevent duplicate content...but wanted to check.

Issue #3 ) Duplicate Content - Google tools is still reporting over 4K of Duplicate meta descriptions, Duplicate Title Tags

Issue #4) Sitemap has over 7K of entries but Google has not indexed above 3900 pages in over a week....

[Jon]

Originally Posted by ecollier2012

CDSEO Version 1.8.3
Xcart 4.2.1

Is this normal or not? After installing CDSEO we are seeing a huge increase in errors on google webmaster tools. Given all their recent changes and penalizing sites with errors we are extra sensitive to these errors. So we need to know if something is broken in CDSEO or if this is normal.

Issue #1 ) Google now reports over 5K of blocked URL's from the new CDSEO robots.txt below

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/
Disallow: /xcart/*printable=Y
Disallow: /xcart/*js=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort_direction=*
Disallow: /xcart/product.php*
Disallow: /xcart/home.php?cat=*
Disallow: /xcart/catalog/
Disallow: /xcart/search.php
Disallow: /xcart/cart.php
Disallow: /xcart/help.php
Disallow: /xcart/giftcert.php
Disallow: /xcart/product.php
Disallow: /xcart/orders.php
Disallow: /xcart/register.php
Disallow: /xcart/icon.php
Disallow: /xcart/image.php
Disallow: /xcart/error_message.php
Disallow: /xcart/offers.php
Disallow: /xcart/product_image.php
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml.gz


Issue #2) Category files not indexed...

http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/home.php?cat=2959 reports that its "Denied by robots.txt" - We suspect this is to prevent duplicate content...but wanted to check.

Issue #3 ) Duplicate Content - Google tools is still reporting over 4K of Duplicate meta descriptions, Duplicate Title Tags

Issue #4) Sitemap has over 7K of entries but Google has not indexed above 3900 pages in over a week....

After CDSEO is installed it is normal to have a LOT of blocked pages, since x-cart by default has at least 5-6 - usually a lot more - urls per item.

Since you just installed you want home.php and product.php to 301 redirect, so remove these two lines from robots.txt until after your site is fully reindexed:

Disallow: /xcart/product.php*
Disallow: /xcart/home.php?cat=*

CDSEO will 301 redirect those and let Google know to update those links in their database, which also addresses item #2.

Do the above change to robots.txt, submit a sitemap frequently, and in 2-3 weeks you should see your reindexing complete.

With regard to duplicate meta tags, you'll want to look at those and customize them in your CDSEO admin section.

[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.