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[Jon]

ASF Design, an x-cart search engine optimization firm, has done a review of the search engine optimization mods CDSEO Pro, DSEFU, and XCSEO Pro.

They were impressed with our CDSEO Pro product and convinced us to provide a limited time offer of CDSEO Pro at the price of XCSEO.

The review also includes performance testing:

On default x-cart pages DSEFU and CDSEO Pro ranked comparable for loading time, while XCSEO was consistently slower. CDSEO Pro was the best on memory usage and by far the best under stress testing, ranking 250% better than DSEFU and more than 550% better than XCSEO. XCSEO Pro▓s memory usage under stress testing was over 1000% more than the other two modules.

The review is posted up in their blog at http://www.asfdesign.com/blog/x-cart-seo-comparing-seosearch-engine-friendly-url-mods-for-xcart-29/

[pcparts]

I would like to say a little bit here as well as a user of both Mods now.

The first mod i went for was CDSEO Pro but because i couldn't get into Admin locking up (we have been told to lock down our admin folder right) i had to upload the .htacces file all the time but i have been told it is fixed now?


It doesn't work with Fire tanks Feature product manager you will have to pay for a update to get the latest file fixed?

And i don't see they have mentioned that XCEO Pro does 301 redirects?
Might have for got to write it down?


And the most important thing is i see they missed is as well support?
Might have for got to write it down as well?

Greg

[Jon]

The purpose of this thread was to bring the review to people's attention, and I have no desire to resume arguments that have already plagued too many threads on this forum.

To answer your specific comments, the admin folder issue is the result of a conflict between mod rewrite and cpanel's storing of .htpasswd files in a directory below root. I found it also a problem for online products such as wordpress and popular content management systems. While the issue was challenging an easy one line solution has been developed.

CDSEO and XCSEO work similarily in regard to feed manager and upgrading; you could either upgrade or use the default x-cart urls for feeds which would be 301 redirected.

I do see in the review that it mentions both modules do 301 redirects but can't comment on a lack of alternate criteria.

[intel352]

Regarding Greg's (pcparts) post, he's referring to Featured Product manager, not Feed Manager.

[balinor]

Jon P, I'm moving your new post into your CDSEO thread.

[photo]

Hello Jon
Would you mind commenting on the issues raised in this thread? Duplicate Titles
The reason I ask is we are getting ready to upgrade to CDSEO PRO and (correct me if I am wrong) I believe this will eliminate the need for BCSE's meta titles and meta descriptions mods, in which case would there be any issue related to the above thread?


Thanks

[Jon]

CDSEO adds pagination automatically.

[photo]

Thanks Jon

[Will44]

This is probably a dumb question but how do you change meta description and meta keywords for the homepage? I see it's possible to change the title tag under settings...just not sure about the meta tags.

[Jon]

Home page uses the default meta tags which are configured outside of CDSEO in:
X-Cart Admin -> General Settings -> SEO Options