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[annuity]

Hang on i've just realised i've got you mixed up with someone else called fwr media. USU5 is not your contribution is it. My apologies. Whats the deal with seo url's i'm confused now!? I see you support Ultimate SEO V 2.2d so what is the difference to USU5 pro? Does USU5 use none standard code or something? I thought USU5 was a continuation of chemos version and that was now obsolete but I notice in the contribution description you mention yours is compatible with all contributions, which suggests to me usu5 pro isn't? I have no preference to which version of seo url's i use so should i try your version(i notice there is an osc 2.3 version) and maybe the problems im having with the related categories on seo sitemap and -p-12.html not redirecting will be resolved?

While i'm here the next thing i'm looking at is canonical links. Please could you recommend a contribution that works best with your version of SEO url's?

Edited by annuity, 16 August 2011, 07:38.

[Jack_mcs]

annuity, on 16 August 2011, 07:30, said:

Hang on i've just realised i've got you mixed up with someone else called fwr media. USU5 is not your contribution is it. My apologies. Whats the deal with seo url's i'm confused now!? I see you support Ultimate SEO V 2.2d so what is the difference to USU5 pro? Does USU5 use none standard code or something? I thought USU5 was a continuation of chemos version and that was now obsolete but I notice in the contribution description you mention yours is compatible with all contributions, which suggests to me usu5 pro isn't? I have no preference to which version of seo url's i use so should i try your version(i notice there is an osc 2.3 version) and maybe the problems im having with the related categories on seo sitemap and -p-12.html not redirecting will be resolved?

While i'm here the next thing i'm looking at is canonical links. Please could you recommend a contribution that works best with your version of SEO url's?

No, SEO 5 isn't a continuation of Chemo's version. I updated Chemo's version and is the one I recommend. As for SEO 5 working with this, or any contribution, since I don't support it, I can't help with the compatibility problems. There are several fixes around to get it to work with various contributions, though I don't recall if there was a fix for this one. If so, it has probably been mentioned in this thread.

As for canonical, I suggest you insall Header Tags SEO since it has that built-in. You'll have to change a setting in SEO 5 to have it work properly with Header Tags. See the link in my signature for the SEO-type contributions I recommend.

[annuity]

Jack_mcs, on 16 August 2011, 13:34, said:

No, SEO 5 isn't a continuation of Chemo's version. I updated Chemo's version and is the one I recommend. As for SEO 5 working with this, or any contribution, since I don't support it, I can't help with the compatibility problems. There are several fixes around to get it to work with various contributions, though I don't recall if there was a fix for this one. If so, it has probably been mentioned in this thread.

As for canonical, I suggest you insall Header Tags SEO since it has that built-in. You'll have to change a setting in SEO 5 to have it work properly with Header Tags. See the link in my signature for the SEO-type contributions I recommend.

Hi Jack,

Many thanks for getting back to me. I will install your version of seo url's and see how i go. With regards using Header Tags SEO for the canonical links, could you advise the specific sections of code that deal with the canonical links because the thing is to cut a long story short i'm using header tags seo already but not all of it. I have previously installed it on other sites and decided this time to not include the page control admin section or most of the catalog side except for the relevant sql queries that need adjusting to retrieve the extra info.

Instead i have hard coded the meta tags on the catalog side with if else statements echoing things like $category['categories_htc_desc_tag']; and create the meta tags text for each product & category as normal with header tags seo in admin/categories.php.

So in other words i don't have the canonical tags part of header tags seo installed. Please could you advise the parts of the header tags seo code that deal with the canonical tag?

As i'm going off topic now i will post any further questions regarding seo urls or header tags seo in the appropriate support forum.

[Jack_mcs]

annuity, on 18 August 2011, 16:59, said:

Hi Jack,

Many thanks for getting back to me. I will install your version of seo url's and see how i go. With regards using Header Tags SEO for the canonical links, could you advise the specific sections of code that deal with the canonical links because the thing is to cut a long story short i'm using header tags seo already but not all of it. I have previously installed it on other sites and decided this time to not include the page control admin section or most of the catalog side except for the relevant sql queries that need adjusting to retrieve the extra info.

Instead i have hard coded the meta tags on the catalog side with if else statements echoing things like $category['categories_htc_desc_tag']; and create the meta tags text for each product & category as normal with header tags seo in admin/categories.php.

So in other words i don't have the canonical tags part of header tags seo installed. Please could you advise the parts of the header tags seo code that deal with the canonical tag?

As i'm going off topic now i will post any further questions regarding seo urls or header tags seo in the appropriate support forum.

The code for it is built into the includes/header_tags.php file so it probably won't be of much use to you. I can't imagine why you would only use part of the contribution but if you are going to do that, you probably should use one of the other meta tags contributions that just concentrate on meta tags. Header Tags is meant to help SEO a site but by not using it as designed, you are bypassing that and making it pretty useless. There is also an addon just for canonical tags which works without having to have the Header Tags SEO addon installed. That is probably what you should use, in your case. Please ask any other Header Tags related questions in its support thread.

[annuity]

Jack_mcs, on 18 August 2011, 17:36, said:

The code for it is built into the includes/header_tags.php file so it probably won't be of much use to you. I can't imagine why you would only use part of the contribution but if you are going to do that, you probably should use one of the other meta tags contributions that just concentrate on meta tags. Header Tags is meant to help SEO a site but by not using it as designed, you are bypassing that and making it pretty useless. There is also an addon just for canonical tags which works without having to have the Header Tags SEO addon installed. That is probably what you should use, in your case. Please ask any other Header Tags related questions in its support thread.

Header tags seo is a great contribution I think i did it my way to keep database queries to a minimum, that's my ultimate goal with this new site and I tend to write all my tags manually anyway so i just needed the code to input everything into the database really. The if else statements are to have at least something if the header tags are not set. I think i am using the canonical tag contribution you mentioned on another site of mine and i was reluctant to use it as i have an issue with google indexing my urls with < at the end and the canonical is the same. I can't exclude < from the canonical no matter what i do so google is always complaining about all my urls being duplicates cos .html and .html< are displaying exactly the same content. I will give it another go anyway as it seems adding < to the end of my urls on this new site causes a 404. I have installed your version of seo url's now and have a question so i will go post it there. Many thanks for all your help once again.

Edited by annuity, 18 August 2011, 18:12.

[ChristineMcAteer]

Hello (again), i am wondering if this add-on (and the Google XML Sitemap SEO one) is suitable for a v2.3.1 store ?
Thank you,
Christine

[Jack_mcs]

ChristineMcAteer, on 01 September 2011, 17:18, said:

Hello (again), i am wondering if this add-on (and the Google XML Sitemap SEO one) is suitable for a v2.3.1 store ?
Thank you,
Christine

Sitemap SEO - no. Google XML Sitemap SEO - yes.

Edited by Jack_mcs, 01 September 2011, 22:35.

[ChristineMcAteer]

Thank you very much!

[jacven]

Hello all,

At the sitemap_seo_page_control.php I have some custom pages, they are not checked to be excluded, and they are not shown in the front-end

What could be wrong?

Thank you.

[Jack_mcs]

jacven, on 04 September 2011, 21:36, said:

Hello all,

At the sitemap_seo_page_control.php I have some custom pages, they are not checked to be excluded, and they are not shown in the front-end

What could be wrong?

Thank you.

If they were not setup as standard oscommerce pages are (two files and an entry in the filenames file), that might cause it. If they were, I don't know what the problem might be. You could try adding the page using the option to add pages in box control though.

[Krama]

Hi there,
I am wondering if anyone can help me with this error when I click on the Sitemap link in my store -

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\wamp\www\catalog\includes\functions\sitemap.php on line 97

Thanks in advance.
Tim

[Jack_mcs]

Krama, on 07 September 2011, 02:39, said:

Hi there,
I am wondering if anyone can help me with this error when I click on the Sitemap link in my store -

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\wamp\www\catalog\includes\functions\sitemap.php on line 97

Thanks in advance.
Tim

It's due to a mistake in the code. In that file, find this line

  if (! function_exists('curl_init'))

and change it to

  if ( function_exists('curl_init'))

[Krama]

Jack_mcs, on 07 September 2011, 03:01, said:

It's due to a mistake in the code. In that file, find this line

  if (! function_exists('curl_init'))

and change it to

  if ( function_exists('curl_init'))

Thanks for your quick response Jack. That has fixed it.[img]http://forums.oscommerce.com//public/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif[/img]
Tim

[vashichino7]

Hello jack ,

I am running 2.3.1 and I am having trouble installing Google Sitemap XML on my store, I have written the errors in the Google Sitemap thread. So I tried installing this Sitemap on, everything went well; however, the backend got shifted downard, (thinking it is the sql which did that) and I read that it is not supported for 2. 3.1 ? What do you think my best option is? Please let me know, thank you!

[Jack_mcs]

vashichino7, on 07 September 2011, 20:44, said:

Hello jack ,

I am running 2.3.1 and I am having trouble installing Google Sitemap XML on my store, I have written the errors in the Google Sitemap thread. So I tried installing this Sitemap on, everything went well; however, the backend got shifted downard, (thinking it is the sql which did that) and I read that it is not supported for 2. 3.1 ? What do you think my best option is? Please let me know, thank you!

This contribution hasn't been converted for 2.3.

[shintaku]

Hello jack,
I am using OSCommerce 2.3.1 and finding it difficult to set up Sitemap_SEO_V_1.7 on my store. I can't find this part: includes/boxes/information.php

This is what I needed http://www.finalyearproject.net/screenshot.gif am not sure if Sitemap_SEO_V_1.7 will enable me achieve that? Please I need fast solution for this, I need to fix the Site map as soon as possible.

Thanks for your usual support.

[14steve14]

Read the post above yours.

[shintaku]

14steve14, on 13 November 2011, 11:35, said:

Read the post above yours.

Ok, I can see. Do you have any contribution on getting this done? All I needed is a Site Map like this: http://www.finalyearproject.net/screenshot.gif

Thanks in advance

[14steve14]

shintaku, on 13 November 2011, 18:48, said:

Ok, I can see. Do you have any contribution on getting this done? All I needed is a Site Map like this: http://www.finalyear.../screenshot.gif

Thanks in advance

Search through the addons for sitemap. There is one there for 2.3.1

[shintaku]

@ Steve,
Thank you for the support. However, am finding it difficult to located the Site Map for OSC 2.3.1 I will appreciate of you can give me the direct link.
Thanks

Edited by shintaku, 13 November 2011, 19:45.