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[Jon]

Originally Posted by DavyMac

Force trailing slashes is raising a 301 according to the HTTP response header, which is great, but the destination page is cdseopro.php - the 404 error page.

Therefore, all URLs without the trailing slash will be redirected to the same page leading to Duplicate Title, Description and Content errors!

# WCM - Force trailing slashes
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^\.]+[^/]$
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]
# / WCM - Force trailing slashes

Any suggestions please?

I've never had an issue with the provided code so this is strange. Perhaps try other code formats by google searching for: htaccess force trailing slashes

You could also talk to your host and ask them to turn on the trailing slashes as a server default.

[DavyMac]

Originally Posted by Jon

I've never had an issue with the provided code so this is strange. Perhaps try other code formats by google searching for: htaccess force trailing slashes

You could also talk to your host and ask them to turn on the trailing slashes as a server default.

Thanks Jon. I played around with my .htaccess file and discovered that the order of commands within this file is important: I changed the order of commands so that:

# ------------------------------------
# / WCM - Force trailing slashes
# ------------------------------------
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^\.]+[^/]$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [L,R=301]

appears in the .htaccess before:

# ------------------------------------
# CDSEO Pro
# ------------------------------------
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(payment|admin|provider|partner)/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(gif|jpe?g|png|js|css|swf|php|ico)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ cdseopro.php
# ------------------------------------
# / CDSEO Pro
# ------------------------------------

and now I get the result I require, which is URLs without the trailing slash are 301 redirected to the URL with the slash.

[albertchui]

hi, jon, in your "The definitive X-Cart SEO tutorial", you recommended the KeywordDiscovery and Wordtracker, these are paid in monthly subscription which is cost more, but there are some software no need subscription like SEO pwersuite by http://www.link-assistant.com/, do you recommend this kind of software or KeywordDiscovery and Wordtracker, thanks

albert

[Asiaplay]

@albertchui,

This is not really a CDSEO question, so I will let you know what I think...

In short, if your country / language focus dataset is not offered by those keyword tools or you have a lot of spare time, then you don't need them... but read on before deciding not to use them...

Firstly, there is a difference in the focus of these tools - namely:-
1) Link-assistant is a great all-around seo-tool which honestly, I would be lost without - their Ranktracker tool, can more quickly help "suggest keywords" - but note that it can be slow to use to pull "# of searches data (used for calculating KEI)
2) Keyworddiscovery and Wordtracker (and SEMRush) are keyword discovery and keyword data tools - they pull lists of keywords and KEI data very, very fast.

Since you are asking about link-assistant - I will comment on that first for keyword research.
This is a great tool for finding a list of suggested keywords relating to your niche - especially for non-English websites (i.e. using "suggest" in Ranktracker or scrapping from top sites using SEOSpyglass).
There is however one downside of link-assistant when it comes to pulling keyword data... namely that these days, it is hard to easily pull the "# of searches" data using it (basically Google locks up very fast these days when pulling "# of searches" data - really you can only pull 1300 results when logged into a Google Webmaster account).
So why is this an issue? Well, as you know, once you have collected your great list of keyword suggestions, you need some way to compare / rank them for value - the most common method is KEI (and to calculate KEI you need to know the "# searches" per month data!).
So link-assistant is slow and at times pull-your-hair out annoyingly slow for pulling "# of searches" (per month) KEI data - this is the point you should know.

To answer do you need Wordtracker, Keyworddiscovery or SEMRush, depends on a few things:-

A) WHICH COUNTRY/LANGUAGE MARKETS IS YOUR WEBSITE TARGETING / ARE YOU WANTING TO FIND KEYWORDS AND KEYWORD DATA FOR?
A1) Wordtracker pulls data from USA and UK and is based on dogpile, metacrawler and Google data (I understand that only for Google results database only, can you narrow it down to English by a specific region i.e. USA, UK, Australia, NZ, India and South Africa - for data from other sources you get USA data only - but you will need to check that with wordtracker staff to be 100% sure).
A2) Keyworddiscovery - data is available for several countries (and therefore languages) - see this link for more info http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/kd-manual-database-regional.html
A3) SEMRush - data is available for several countries - see this page and click on the country drop down next to the search box to see the list of regional databases http://www.semrush.com/info/zappos.com
NOTE: you will notice that for some country/language markets these three tools do not have any data and therefore can't be used for anything more than keyword suggestions i.e. can't be used for KEI (e.g. Asian markets) - link-assistant however can pull data for any country/language combination (or be it slow sometimes)!

B) HOW MUCH SPARE TIME DO YOU HAVE?
As discussed above you can pull "# searches" data manually very slowly or using link-assistant a little bit faster (a lot faster for "competition" data however, if you use rotating proxies) - the advantage of Wordtracker, Keyworddiscovery and SEMRush therefore, is that you can get "# of searches" and KEI data very very fast and also large keyword lists (the downside is that they are paid solutions and don't have keyword data for some countries / language matches)!

I hope comments help - cheers, Asiaplay

EDIT: Changed Ranktracker "# Searches" to 1300 per time (about 3 minutes to pull that data)... you can of course add more g-mail & google adwords accounts if you have multiple IP addresses you can use (to have multiple Adwords accounts) so you can pull more data than 1300 per day (but it still means there are limits in the amount of data that can be pulled and the time it takes to pull the data).

[albertchui]

many thanks, it's pretty helpful.

[Anty]

To Jon or anyone that can give me advice,
have purchased your CDSEOPRO some time ago and have a question. I've renamed url of a same page many times so now I guess there are many 301 between urls leading to one page. Where can I modify or delete this list of 301s.

Thanks

[albertchui]

hi, jon, my domain is iphonecasestudio.com, but I changed the Custom Home Page Title to iPhone Cases, iPad Cases, Samsung Galaxy Cases, Custom Phone Case, Google Nexus Cases, BlackBerry which is long, do you think this is good idea and should I change it back to my store name, thanks for your help.

albert

[anandat]

Hi Jon,
As you can see clean url function is a part of xcart now.
CDSEO PRO has almost similar functions like clean url.
Why people will like to spent $149 for CDSEO Pro when they will get similar mod by default for FREE !

My friendly suggestion is that you should not be charge now for updates. Updated version should be available for free to all license holder.
This way people will happy invest in CDEOPRO as they will have assurity to get new features for CDSEOPRO.

What do you think ?

[cherie]

Originally Posted by anandat

As you can see clean url function is a part of xcart now.
CDSEO PRO has almost similar functions like clean url.
Why people will like to spent $149 for CDSEO Pro when they will get similar mod by default for FREE !

http://www.websitecm.com/wcm_product_info.php?display=comparison

[tqualizerman]

Does anyone know if this page (http://postimg.org/image/mvlwrc2bx/) is something to do with CDSEO? I don't remember this happening before, and I don't really like it so I'm tracking to track down where it's coming from. It happens for any cart functions, or searches, etc.