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I have just uploaded the latest version of Ultimate Seo Urls 5 version 1.0, it has been performing extremely well and is now at a stage where it can be called a fully stable production release with no known issues. Feedback has been great and so now seems a good time to ask for some thoughts here about the upcoming 1.1 version which will be called Ultimate Seo Urls 5 Pro.
This is in the very final stages of development and as well as your thoughts I am looking for testers who would be willing to give the initial beta release a good bashing both on *nix and Windows servers. To make it simple there will be a "drop on top" install method so devs would be able to "chuck up" a fresh RC2a ( 3 mins ) then drop USU5 pro on top ( 2 mins ).
What's new in USU5 Pro?
Multi Language Seo Support:
Up until this only commercially available uri scripts allow for multi language seo support .. what do I mean by this? It is splitting the shopping cart up into language independent parts so e.g. all English pages have a totally different uri to e.g. German pages. Like this for the first time multi language shops will be able to get individual indexing for language specific pages.
Examples:
English index.php
www.mysite.com/index.php
German index.php
www.mysite.com/index.php/de
English product seo url
www.mysite.com/my-great-product-c-22.html
German product seo url
www.mysite.com/de/my-great-product-c-22.html
4 Different Uri Types:
Traditional Seo Urls:
www.mysite.com/my-great-product-p-32.html
Path Rewrite: ( see 49 different ways to write the product uri text )
www.mysite.com/rebok/trainers/my-great-product-p-32.html
Standard: ( Works on *nix and Windows servers without rewrite ability )
www.mysite.com/index.php/my-great-product-p-32
Path Standard: ( Works on *nix and Windows servers without rewrite ability, see 49 different ways to write the product uri text )
www.mysite.com/index.php/rebok/trainers/my-great-product-p-32
49 different ways to write the product uri text:
Any combination of the following can be used to make up your product uri text in any order.
- p ( products name )
- b ( brand/manufacturers name )
- c ( category name )
- m ( products model )
So a setting in admin of bcmp would create uri link text like ..
manufacturer-category-model-product
Or with the path methods ..
manufacturer/category/model/product
Obviously most will only use one or two but you can see the flexibility.
Seo Force index.php
www.mysite.com/ will automatically 301 redirect to www.mysite.com/index.php removing the chance of duplicate penalties.
Complete 301 redirection
All uri types are covered for 301 redirection so if you install this for the first time or change your uri type you can rest assured the bots will be 301 redirected to the new uri preserving your page rank. Uri types covered are ..
Standard osC urls
osC experimental search engine friendly urls
Traditional seo Urls
Path Rewrite urls
Standard seo urls
Path standard seo urls
Uri validation:
Change a product name with the old series 2 urls and you are stuffed because ..
aardwark-32.html accesses successfully the same page as dodo-32.html, needless to say this is very bad for seo.
With USU5 if you ever change a product name or change the link text USU5 will 301 redirect to the currently correct seo url for that product/category.
Proper 404 pages for "product not found":
USU5 displays a custom 404 page complete with the correct 404 header when a link comes in where the product/category cannot be found .. the standard osC/seo urls 2 way of dealing with this is to show the page with product not found .. loads of duplicate content.
Modular Uri Types:
The uri types in USU5 pro are modules, new uri types can be created by just dropping in a new module.
Modular Contribution Additions:
Often users want seo urls to create seo url links for contributed modules like links, information pages, articles etc etc. In USU5 these again can be created extremely simply and just dropped in as a module with no code changes.
I have left out the features that USU5 already has assuming that you may know the benefits already, re: USU5 pro I think I have covered most of the new stuff, if I remember more I'll post it later.
Rob
Edited by FWR Media, 29 November 2009, 23:55.
fancy giving it a thumping?
Hook me up.
