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[JacksmithxD]

Originally Posted by Jon

Go to your CDSEO Admin -> Modules -> XML Sitemap Generator.

Scroll down to the bottom and click Submit to update the settings. Then try regenerating.

Thanks for the very fast reply! Seems to be fine now, greatly appriciated thank you very much!

[Jon]

I've had several questions about upgrading CDSEO when moving to x-cart 4.4.x and why they shouldn't use clean urls.

If you switch to clean urls in the upgrade you will likely have many broken links, you won't maintain your SEO data, and will lose much of your SEO rank. It's possible your site will fall off the SEO map for several months and possibly never reach the same SEO levels again in the future.

By upgrading with CDSEO you will ensure that you will have all the same urls so none of them become broken. You will also maintain your page titles, meta descriptions, and all information from CDSEO.

Further, the upgrade process is simple, and the upgrade cost for CDSEO is just $35.

The process is as follows:

1) Purchase the CDSEO upgrade for $35 from:

2) Install CDSEO on your new x-cart 4.4.x site.
http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods...o-upgrade.html

3) When upgrading to x-cart 4.4.x and upgrade your previous database to 4.4.x it will maintain the wcm_cdseo* tables when transferred to your 4.4.x site keeping all of your SEO information intact.

4) On your new x-cart 4.4.x site go to CDSEO Admin -> Modules -> Autopopulate and submit. This just clears the cache files.

Simple right? If you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them.

[Acquamarina]

Hi,
Guess this post is more for Jon and other SEO wizards on the forum. I was doing some research here and found this link:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/five-common-seo-mistakes-and-six-good.html

At about 3:37 (minutes) into the presentation there is a mention as to why one should not use rel="canonical" on pagination links, but rather the new rel="next" and rel="prev" markup for paginated content. Is there a way to implement that now with CDSEO Pro?

I have so many duplicate titles and descriptions it is not even funny. tried several options but none seemed to really take care of the issue.

Great video, by the way. Many thanks to the original poster - I can't seem to find that post again using the search.

Thanks for any info/suggestions!

[cflsystems]

CDSEO now uses different file name (index2, index3,etc) for paginated results so canonical name is different and not poiting to the same url on different pages. rel next/prev can also be added though - I have recently done this for a client

[Acquamarina]

Yes, my cart has the same but Google still sees it as duplicate meta tags. I think it makes it even more so, because now you have different file names with the same meta tags.
Thanks, Steve!

[Jon]

The latest version of CDSEO allows you to specify custom title tags, urls, and meta tags for the secondary pages so they are seen as completely unique content. However we will be adding the pagination as an option into a future release.

[Acquamarina]

Thanks for the reply, Jon. I'll see if I can figure out how to do the unique meta tags for the additional pages.

[tam10]

I use the cdseo pro and adding now the index1,2....to get rid of the duplicates. Which of the two option for category link below works better for SEO

myaddress.com/category/index2/
or
myaddress.com/category/index2.html

Thanks,

[tqualizerman]

Hi Jon,

I'm not seeing the category name in the URL (for products) and not sure where to look to check if its set correctly. This is on a 4.4.5 install. Any ideas?

[cherie]

Originally Posted by tqualizerman

I'm not seeing the category name in the URL (for products)

I believe that can be accomplished with an extra CDSEO module.