Simple Seo Url

zencart seo url – another reason why you should use it

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:23:16 +0000

Have a look at this screenshot we took on Google searching for the term “shopping cart design”

Google is smart enough to highlight the search term that appears in the title and the url. This “bold” part in the link easily catches users’ attention and also leads them to believe that the link will more than likely points to the content they are looking for.

Comparison with Ultimate SEO URLs for ZenCart

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:39:30 +0000

	Simple SEO URL for ZenCart	Ultimate SEO URLs for ZenCart
Static URLs	Yes	Yes
Key-word URLs	Yes	Yes
Well-structured URLs	Yes	No
Supported types of URLs	Any Zencart generated url	categories, products, manufacturers, reviews
No same content available on the different URLs (prevents possible duplicate content penalties)	Yes	No (e.g. over 10 different URLs per product – high penalization by crawlers)
Verifies and validates each URL (prevents possible duplicate content penalties and HTTP 404/Not Found error when visitor makes any typo in URL)	Yes	No
Safe changes of URLs If any page receives new URL due to change in the content, than all older URLs will still workg and the web browser or crawler is redirected through HTTP 301/Moved Permanently to the new URL.	Yes	No
Redirections from ALL original ZenCart URLs (prevents possible duplicate content penalties)	Yes	No
Notify (add/remove) links Workaround (prevents possible duplicate content penalties)	Yes	No
Prevents home page duplicate content penalties	Yes	No
Multi language mode and single language mode (allows splitting shopping cart to language independent parts)	Yes	No
Makes all relative URLs absolute (Search Engines will spider your shopping cart easier)	Yes	No
Does not add any SQL queries	Yes	No
Uses cache for keyword URLs (save database server resources)	Yes	No (WARNING: SQL server is heavily overloaded)
Possibility to set Maximum number of words in one URI’s level	Yes	No
Possibility to set Minimum word’s length (shorter words are excluded from URIs)	Yes	No
Does not break any installed Add-ons, Modules or Templates/Themes	Yes	No
Link Alias	Yes	No

It’s not just about Search Engine Optimization

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:28:08 +0000

Readability

Compare the 2 links below:
http://www.site.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=40_44&products_id=506

http://www.site.com/toyota/prius/2009-toyota-prius-hybrid

Which link is more “readable”, which one tells you exactly what to expect when you visit it? Obviously the second link is more meaningful to user. You know the content you should see when you visit that link.

Shop owners also reported that using this user friendly url can help them to save a huge amount of time when they track their site traffic via Google Analytics or other statistic tools. By just looking at the links they can know exactly which products/categories those links point to without having to actually visit the links.

Usability

Lets say you start with:
http://www.site.com/toyota/prius/2009-toyota-prius-hybrid

What if you want to go and see all cars listed uner “prius” category? Simple, remove the product name from there:
http://www.site.com/toyota/prius/

What if you want to view the “toyota” category instead?
http://www.site.com/toyota/

Most users won’t do that, they will follow the navigation bar on your site, but some will try. And it’s good to give them the option. It’s also nice to let them know exactly where they are by just looking at the links.