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[tqualizerman]

Do you know which one that might be? I was sure this was part of the module.

[cherie]

I don't believe it is. You'd have to contact them to see how to get it.

[Jon]

Attached is the cat-subcat-product url format module. It will change your product urls while writing the old url to history so that 301 redirects take place from the old to the new automatically.

Instructions on how to install are in the .zip.

Note that this is not a supported component of CDSEO and is provided as-is with no warranty. Back-up your existing database before changing your urls just in case.

[JacksmithxD]

Best URL structure for products?

e.g http://www.inkcartridgesfast.co.uk/epson/ink-cartridges.html (for a list of ink cartridges for the Epson printers.

For the products should I do http://www.inkcartridgesfast.co.uk/epson/ink-cartridges/epson-example-compatible-multipack-ink.html

It seems to long...

Any ideas on what is best practice would be greatly appriciated!

[tqualizerman]

Originally Posted by Jon

Attached is the cat-subcat-product url format module. It will change your product urls while writing the old url to history so that 301 redirects take place from the old to the new automatically.

Instructions on how to install are in the .zip.

Note that this is not a supported component of CDSEO and is provided as-is with no warranty. Back-up your existing database before changing your urls just in case.

we lurve you.

[tqualizerman]

Hey Jon, is there any customization that needs to be made so that CDSEO will work with X-Cart Socialize plugin? Specifically talking Facebook here, not sure about the others. X-Cart does this to prepare the URL for the like button:

{assign var="href" value=$href|@func_make_clean_url}

But when I test output {$href} into the page I just get the non-clean:

www.site.com/product.php?productid=17516

[Jon]

Originally Posted by JacksmithxD

Best URL structure for products?

e.g http://www.inkcartridgesfast.co.uk/epson/ink-cartridges.html (for a list of ink cartridges for the Epson printers.

For the products should I do http://www.inkcartridgesfast.co.uk/epson/ink-cartridges/epson-example-compatible-multipack-ink.html

It seems to long...

Any ideas on what is best practice would be greatly appriciated!

Typically I recommend http://www.example.com/product.html url format to target exact keywords with a url in the root as I've seen the most success this way.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by tqualizerman

Hey Jon, is there any customization that needs to be made so that CDSEO will work with X-Cart Socialize plugin? Specifically talking Facebook here, not sure about the others. X-Cart does this to prepare the URL for the like button:

{assign var="href" value=$href|@func_make_clean_url}

But when I test output {$href} into the page I just get the non-clean:

www.site.com/product.php?productid=17516

Something like this should do the trick:

{if $php_url.query_string eq ""}
{assign var="href" value=$php_url.url}
{else}
{assign var="href" value="`$php_url.url`?`$php_url.query_string`"}
{/if}

[tqualizerman]

That almost solved it, but it's not including the domain for some reason (and so facebook is adding www.facebook.com followed by the correct sub-directory structure.)

[Jon]

Originally Posted by tqualizerman

That almost solved it, but it's not including the domain for some reason (and so facebook is adding www.facebook.com followed by the correct sub-directory structure.)

{if $php_url.query_string eq ""}
{assign var="href" value="`$http_location``$php_url.url`"}
{else}
{assign var="href" value="`$http_location``$php_url.url`?`$php_url.query_string`"}
{/if}