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Simple Seo Url (SSU) is a FREE Superior Url Optimization module for Zencart. It changes dynamic URLs to static and well-structured SEO friendly formats, allows store owners to FULLY customize the stores’ urls to increase readability, avoid duplicated content issue.
Below is the brief list of features that SSU offers:
Converts ZenCart links to SEO links
Converts all ZenCart created links into User Friendly links (this includes all links created by zencart add-ons as well)
Contact us:
www.example.com/contact_us (or site.com/contact_us.ext where ext is the extension you choose)
Add keywords into links for SEO and Readability
Product info page:
www.example.com/bracelets-c-1_2/fashion-silver-p-9
A manufacturer link:
www.example.com/toyota-manufacturer-12
It works for any module that uses ZenCart’s function to create links.
As of version 3+, SSU allows you to add keywords into any links you want, be it a manufacturer link, an ez-page link, a product review link, or any type of link you want. You can write your own plugin to add keywords into your links.
As of version 3.6.0+ SSU can remove all the identifiers and ids from links automatically. It is also capable of creating a well-structured category urls:
www.example.com/cars/toyota/corrola (cars and toyota are category and sub-category while corrola is the product)
Supports safe changes of URLs
If any page receives new URL due to change in the content, all older URLs still work and the web browser or crawler is redirected through HTTP 301 Moved Permanently to the new URL.
Example:
www.example.com/your-category-name/ to www.example.com/your-new-category-name/
Supports redirections from ALL original ZenCart URLs
Example:
www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&cPath=2 to www.example.com/category-name/
Verifies and validates each URL
1. If the user/visitor makes any mistake in the URL, SSU will redirect them to the correct page.
Example:
www.example.com/your-wrong-category-name-c-1/ to www.example.com/your-category-name-c-1/
Please note that this feature is only available if you don’t use auto-alias (in other words, it is only available if you leave the product, category ids in the links)
2. Given the product_id in the link, SSU will find out the exact category tree this product should belong to.
3. Given the category_id in the link, SSU will find out the exact category tree this category should belong to.
4. Several modules are known to use the wrong product type to generate product links, SSU will get the correct product type for all product links. This is VERY IMPORTANT to get the correct layout for the product info page.
Prevents possible duplicate content penalties – no duplicate content available on the different URLs
Usually in ZenCart, a product_info link can contain both cPath and products_id. However, if the cPath is incorrect or is not there, ZenCart doesn’t care at all, it still displays the page just fine.
SSU will redirect the users to the correct link (by finding out the correct cPath of the product). In case of linked products, SSU also takes this into account as well.
Prevents home page content penalties
www.example.com/?, www.example.com/index.php and www.example.com/index.php? will be www.example.com only!
Multi-Language support
Starting from 3.2+, SSU provides a full blown multi-language support solution for site that uses more than 1 language, your links will now look like this:(with multi-language enabled in admin)
http://site.com/en/link_with_english_names
http://site.com/fr/link_with_french_names
You can also write your own name parser for your language and simply plug it in. This allow you to use SSU for ANY language you want!!!!
Supports unlimited Products Types
SSU properly handles all the default and any additional product types you may have.
Link Alias
An exciting feature, it allows store owners to create “aliases” of their current links, a very good example is:
http://www.test.site/en/skirts-c-4/beige-snap-back-mini-skirt-with-suspenders-p-814
can be changed to:
http://www.test.site/en/october-promotion
This features allow you to tweak your links ANY WAY you want!!!!
Optimized Caching
SSU was designed with performance in mind, and it uses various caching techniques to reduce the server load as much as possible.
SSU is FREE and OPEN-SOURCE and PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORTED
You can write plugins for it, you can tweak it however you want. You don’t have to rely on anyone to make the changes you want, you have full ownership of it. If you ever need Free or Commercial support, feel free to contact us.
Want even more REASONS to use this module? We have listed many for in our Why Seo Url? category.
SSU is brought to you by RubikIntegration.com
Demo – Download - Professional Installation Service – Current support forum
I fixed the problem myself. I changed the two line in .htaccess file:
#RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L,PT]
to
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]
#RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L,PT]
As you see,I just simply switch the “#” between those two lines.But I don’t know why? My SSU version is the newest from https://github.com/yellow1912/simple-seo-url.
i tried installing Simple SEO URL ..as soon as i click on SEO URL manager it displays nothing i checked all files its perfect permissions as well /..can some one help us
You probably have a different server settings (perhaps you are using GoDaddy?). Anyhow, the second line is there for that purpose, it can be used for certain hosts
Are you using php 5 or php 4? The module requires php 5. In anycase, a blank is usually displayed when zencart runs into certain fatal issue and the error is suppressed. Please check Zencart documentation to turn on the debug logging to find out the exact error (and you can then post the error here if you dont know how to solve it)
I have SSU up and running but I cannot create any Alias. I have “Manage Aliases: Click here” but when I click nothing is happening. I have no add button.
Any idea what I can do so I can create the Alias?
you can add utm_term to the query exclude list
for some reason I did not see your comment till now, we have too many spams on the board so many comments got buried.
Regarding the issue, if someone got the same problem, you may want to check if the redirection rules set in .htaccess is correct.
More than likely something is wrong with your installation, you can take a screenshot and submit a ticket to helpdesk[dot]rubikintegration.com
I think you may have forgotten to make the changes to the zencart core file that is responsible for generating links (please check installation note), or perhaps you are using hardcoded links?
I want to install Simple Seo Url.
Where can I find the installation steps?
The installation link is included in the package
Your plugin somehow managed to bring down two of my sites on the same day. Any clues to why? doing some local error reporting, it only mentioned SSU up to the point of deleting the /auto_loaders/ files – that brought the sites back up.
Difficult to say, first of all SSU requires php 5 so you may want to look into that.
Other than that, without detailed error log we dont know for sure
The module does come with a cron file that can be run periodically to clear cache