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[Jon]

Originally Posted by tam10

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

It is fine but isn't needed as if you leave the secondary url blank it will use category/index2.html by default. If you're going to customize it then you are better to use keywords in the url instead.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by 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?

CDSEO currently only handles the category/product/manufacturers/static pages.

Depending on the module, typically you can use mod rewrite for this. If it's just a page, you can do so by adding this code after "RewriteEngine on" in the CDSEO .htaccess code:

RewriteRule ^your-page.html(.*)$ your-file.php [L]

If you have dynamic urls, then you can set your script up to use urls such as: /your-page/variable/

Then use the code:

RewriteRule ^your-page/(.*)/$ your-page.php?variable=$1 [L]

Hope that helps.

[tqualizerman]

Hi Jon,

I'm using CDSEO Pro to generate a sitemap. It's working for all the normal pages on the site, but I've also got a blog set up in the directory http://www.nerdseven.com/blog/ and have added it to the list of additional URLs, but it's not getting built into the sitemap. Do you have an idea of why this might be happening?

[Jon]

Looking at your sitemap.xml the blog is the first link in it:
http://www.nerdseven.com/sitemap.xml

You may need to do a hard refresh (ctrl+f5 in most browsers)

[tqualizerman]

Thanks again.

Follow up question: from that link /blog/ will the spiders suss out all the other pages within it, or should those all be specified as much as possible too? IE, /blog/category/ /blog/date/ etc.

[Jon]

The search engines will carry on through the /blog/ folder but I would add the most important links anyway.

[ecollier2012]

We recently purchased and implemented CDSEO hoping that the cannocical URL feature would overcome duplicate content errors from google but it seems that either its not configured correctly on our end or its not possible the way our short and long descriptions are setup.

Basically is there a way to force CDSEO or google to index only the last page - IE - the detailed description pages for each product?

Why - Because on our site the "short description and detailed description text are the same" for each product.

The problem is google see this as duplicate content or partially duplicate we suspect.

Example:
URL http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/kdp-51ws655/
Goes to Category "TV Repair Kits / Sony / Projection / KDP-51WS655"

At this category level there are two products listed for this Sony TV model. Each product is unique with unique descriptions....But if you drill down into each product the detailed description on those pages will match at least one of the products on the page before.

The detailed page for one of the products....

http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sony-kdp-51ws655-convergence-repair-kit.html

So at the very least google would see at least 50% of the content on the prior page as duplicate. If we had a dozen products in the root category it may not matter...but in most cases we have just one product or two.

I hope my description of the problem makes sense. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

[David-Allan]

Hi Mate,

Quick questions whioch is probably a bit random but thought i'd ask.

I use the ability template and at the top of the template I have a news ticker which displays news feeds from the news letter section of the site. Is there any way of integrating this or even replacing the data feed to display the new articles posted in xCMS?

The reason why I ask is that I used to use the newsletter function of xcart to display content like a blog on the site but now I use xCMS and would like to show updates of the new articles in the news feed rather than having to create a newsletter with a link to the article so it shows on the site.

Thanks

D-A

[Jon]

Originally Posted by David-Allan

Hi Mate,

Quick questions whioch is probably a bit random but thought i'd ask.

I use the ability template and at the top of the template I have a news ticker which displays news feeds from the news letter section of the site. Is there any way of integrating this or even replacing the data feed to display the new articles posted in xCMS?

The reason why I ask is that I used to use the newsletter function of xcart to display content like a blog on the site but now I use xCMS and would like to show updates of the new articles in the news feed rather than having to create a newsletter with a link to the article so it shows on the site.

Thanks

D-A

It should only be a matter of locating the section that loads the default news, and replacing it with the proper queries for xCMS. I don't know the Ability template off-hand to know where those edits would need to take place, but if you provide FTP to the support department (https://www.websitecm.com/support/) I can have a look and provide you a quote for the customization.

[David-Allan]

Originally Posted by Jon

It should only be a matter of locating the section that loads the default news, and replacing it with the proper queries for xCMS. I don't know the Ability template off-hand to know where those edits would need to take place, but if you provide FTP to the support department (https://www.websitecm.com/support/) I can have a look and provide you a quote for the customization.

Thanks Jon, I'll have a wee gander at it myself today and see if I can figure it out. If not i'll be in touch.