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[Jerrad]

Thanks for the update (and your patience with me...).
The new release works awesome!

[Jayk]

Mod's working great except for Froogle on 4.1.3. I am getting:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in modules/Froogle/froogle.php on line 249

When I try to access the Froogle Export Module.

I can provide my froogle.php file if you would like.

Cheers,
Jason

[chrischall]

Hi,

Great mod installed in minutes and seems to work perfectly Thanks for developing.

I have a quick query about this addition to 1.0.5
* Added support for product urls to include "cat" & "page", for products associated with multiple categories.

I would have thought that this may get your penalized for duplicate content as you could not have two or more differently named pages with duplicate content.

Would it be possible to have the mod with just the product-name-p-102.html as then if it appeared in multiple categories it would just be like multiple pages in a site linking to one single page?

[intel352]

@chris: I understand your concern, which is why 1.0.5 also has this change:

* Added redirect code for product + cat + page urls for bots.

Any situation that I have been able to identify as a possibility for duplicate content, I block bots from accessing that content. When a bot is identified, any link that would normally have a PRINT, SORT, or in the case of products, CAT + PAGE variables, is displayed to the bot without those additional variables.

This means the bot only sees links to a single page instead of multiple different ways to access that page.

Additionally, the file seo.php will redirect bots if they are trying to access a url that could lead to duplicate content. The redirection sends them a 301 redirect to just the plain product url without the extra flags. Same for categories/manufacturers.

Hope that answers your questions

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Jayk, thanks for the bug report, I'll check into it

[intel352]

Okay, XC SEO Lite has been installed on my employer's site since Monday (Sound Choice Store). Google has now picked up 5 urls using the new html aliases.

One thing I noticed though, is that Google is also picking up the session id in the url. The next version of XC SEO Lite, due out later today, will strip the session id out of urls that bots are trying to visit, and do a 301 redirect. Additionally, I should have a fix available for the Froogle module.

[intel352]

XC SEO Lite v1.0.6 has been released

CHANGELOG

XC SEO Lite 1.0.6 (rev 24 - September 22, 2006)
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* Fixed/updated all Install documentation as needed, fixed Froogle portion of 4.1.3 install
* Updated seo.php to 301-redirect bots to remove X-Cart session ids from the url

[Scott DeToffol]

I implemented the mod but I must have missed a step. I updated my .htaccess file in the store root with the data from the one in your zip. I made the changes noted to config.php, auth.php, smarty.php, and froogle.php. I uploaded the included files into /include... and /catalog.

But I'm still geting:
http://www.hellyhansenusa.com/store/product.php?productid=16783&cat=281&page=1

What did I miss?

[Jayk]

Originally Posted by Scott DeToffol

I implemented the mod but I must have missed a step. I updated my .htaccess file in the store root with the data from the one in your zip. I made the changes noted to config.php, auth.php, smarty.php, and froogle.php. I uploaded the included files into /include... and /catalog.

But I'm still geting:
http://www.hellyhansenusa.com/store/product.php?productid=16783&cat=281&page=1

What did I miss?

This got me the first time too. In config.php you have to set the seo active setting to true.

Cheers,
Jason

[Scott DeToffol]

Jason - I just figured that out myself. Thanks, its working!

I guess I should re-do my sitemap.xml now, huh?

This cool, thanks a bunch intel352!

[intel352]

glad you got it figured out.

Looks like I'll have to default the instructions to 'true'