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July 30th, 2009

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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

DemoDownload - Professional Installation ServiceCurrent support forum

  1. February 10th, 2009 at 01:26 | #1

    This is really a great module. It generates great user readable URLs. Just amazing.

  2. February 16th, 2009 at 14:23 | #2

    Will Simple Seo Url (SSU) work on Windows IIS 6?

  3. admin
    February 16th, 2009 at 15:29 | #3

    There have been 2-3 reports that it does not, this is most likely due to the way htaccess is interpreted in IIS, or some php $_SERVER values not available in IIS. If you have a test site with IIS on it, I will be glad to assist you to make it work.

    Raine

  4. February 26th, 2009 at 23:58 | #4

    yes~is very good zen cart module.

  5. Emma
    March 14th, 2009 at 07:44 | #5

    I downloaded this and uploaded all the files to my site. When I go to admin->extras->SSU it comes up with an error saying it cant find ‘includes/classes/module_installer.php’ and I’ve looked in the files I’ve downloaded and there doesn’t seem to be this file?

    Can someone help?

  6. admin
    March 14th, 2009 at 12:52 | #6

    You missed the very first part of the installation note:
    http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zencart/modules/ssu/installation

  7. mit
    March 19th, 2009 at 01:12 | #7

    which version of Module Manager do we need to install on our site for ssu?

  8. admin
    March 19th, 2009 at 02:32 | #8

    Rev 16 is the one you need

  9. May 8th, 2009 at 15:09 | #9

    tired to setup on IIS 6, get the following error:

    When I try to use the SSU tool in admin under extras I get:
    1366 Incorrect integer value: ” for column ‘configuration_group_id’ at row 1
    in:
    [INSERT INTO sky_configuration_group VALUES ('', 'Simple SEO URL', 'Set SSU Options', '1', '1');]
    If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

  10. May 25th, 2009 at 03:10 | #10

    very nice add-on, i’ll try to use it in my new zen-cart site, thanks a lot

  11. May 31st, 2009 at 01:03 | #11

    If this add-on compatible with UTF-8 version zen-cart?

    Thanks,

  12. Heather
    July 14th, 2009 at 09:25 | #12

    Please help asap. I installed according to instructions, but the cart now says illegal access everywhere but the admin. I removed the htaccess and the mod is turned off.

    How do I get the store to come back? http://www.securitymailbox.com/buy/

  13. July 19th, 2009 at 01:23 | #13

    Can some please verify that this does work; without professional assistance?

    I haven’t read one success story yet.

  14. matt
    July 24th, 2009 at 02:33 | #14

    I cant find a link to download the current php5 version of Simple SEO.

    http://public.rubikintegration.com/ links to:
    http://eazy-templates.com/web-templates/zen-cart/modules/simple-seo-url

    I don’t see a download button anywhere – the 1 comment left isn’t even clickable.

  15. admin
    July 30th, 2009 at 04:01 | #15

    @Heather

    Request for help should be submitted to our contact us form for fast response time, otherwise it may get buried in the mountain of spam messages we have.

    Regards

  16. admin
    July 30th, 2009 at 04:02 | #16

    @matt

    You have to add to cart and checkout, the module is totally FREE though, so you wouldnt have to pay anything at all. BTW, Eazy-templates.com is using Zencart with SSU and Ajax Checkout.

  17. admin
    July 30th, 2009 at 04:03 | #17

    @JordanFusions

    Certainly, it is compatible with utf-8

  18. admin
    July 30th, 2009 at 04:05 | #18

    @Vern

    Are you using mysql? Also, SSU relies on htaccess and mod_rewrite which might not be available on some II6 servers.

  19. admin
    July 30th, 2009 at 04:06 | #19

    @carlnunes

    Well, because most people got it working wouldnt need any assistance. But you can check Zencart forum, I provide free assistant there and there are tons of others using this module which you can check their sites.

  20. September 5th, 2009 at 04:40 | #20

    i got the module working fine cheers carl, the zencart forum helped alot but info on here is a great help

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