SEO addon change to have the better rating in search engines

In CS CART 2.012 there has to be unique SEO name for category and product pages. This is wrong. Because if you have subcategories with the same name or the category the same name as the product, you have to create different name. The right should be like this:

Product, category and pages names can be duplicate if the full URL is unique:

e.g. this structure should be possible after the change:

http://domain.com/books/motivation/
http://domain.com/recordings/motivation/
http://domain.com/motivation/recordings

now it is not possible. BUt tu have the structure of the document the search engines likes, wee need it.

If you would like to have it custom coded it is approximatelly 700 USD. So give vote for this idea please.

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kocalka shared this idea · March 03, 2010 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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Adminimac (Admin, CS-Cart) responded · October 09, 2014

Released in CS-Cart v4.2.1
See details on this and other major SEO improvements in this post: http://blog.cs-cart.com/2014/02/19/four-community-suggested-features-to-land-in-cs-cart-4-2/

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23 comments

P-Pharma commented · May 23, 2015 08:17 · Flag as inappropriate

The suggestion is for the following. I quote:
"Product, category and pages names can be duplicate if the full URL is unique"
The person suggesting this used categories as an example. According to your support department you have only implemented this for products in different categories. But not for pages or for any other product/category with unique URLS.
Therefore this suggestion is not implemented yet. Even though you have publicly announced that it was implemented in 4.2
Your announcement states:
"Starting with version 4.2, the SEO name policy will be improved to allow duplicate SEO names; only the whole URL will have to be unique."
But according to your support department this is not true, as it only applies to unique urls in different categories. Not for any other unique url.
Paul John commented · October 27, 2014 14:42 · Flag as inappropriate

Vote here for better implementation:

http://cscart.uservoice.com/forums/134344-cs-cart/suggestions/6613112-fix-seo-addon
Paul John commented · October 17, 2014 10:26 · Flag as inappropriate

"Starting with version 4.2, the SEO name policy will be improved to allow duplicate SEO names; only the whole URL will have to be unique." http://blog.cs-cart.com/2014/02/19/four-community-suggested-features-to-land-in-cs-cart-4-2/

Above isn't the case. Definition of "the whole URL" does not include the language code prefix right now. Result: urls get messy with language suffixes.
Big deal breaker for me.
Paul John commented · October 13, 2014 10:30 · Flag as inappropriate

Imac, I don't see why it is not possible. the url formats just need to have the language options:
[lang]/productname
[lang]/parentcategory/sub-category

I can't have a german site with english urls or vice versa. The only option would be to use additional store fronts for each language or drop cs-cart as a serious platform.
Adminimac (Admin, CS-Cart) commented · October 13, 2014 04:37 · Flag as inappropriate

Paul,
Within this task we have implemented the ability to create same SEO names the way it was described in the description of idea.

Unfortunately this is not possible in case you use different Languages and "Use single URL for all languages" option is not enabled, that is caused by the significant complexity of the changes that should be made once someone change any SEO settings.

So at the moment we recommend you to enable "Use single URL for all languages" thus all your URLs will be the same except the language prefix.
Paul commented · October 11, 2014 13:43 · Flag as inappropriate

Please explain how this is completed.
I am on 4.2.2. and still cannot have the same seo name with multiple languages active.
It keeps appending the language code eventhough the whole url would be unique without it.
Bug or feature?
JGift commented · September 30, 2014 12:43 · Flag as inappropriate

are the SEO changes not already deployed or are there more changes and features being deployed?

If so, I assume in version 5 of CS-cart?

What are the features defined for Version 5?
Party commented · February 03, 2014 01:36 · Flag as inappropriate

Removing file extension (“.html” and “forward slashes /”) from URLs will benefit as well in terms of SEO and visibility.

Examples:
http://domain.com/books
http://domain.com/recordings
http://domain.com/recordings/motivation

Here is a great article explaining why we should avoid file extensions and instead use extension-less URLs:
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/extension-less-url-the-best-practice-that-time-forgot/
Party commented · February 01, 2014 23:37 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add an option to keep all products under single directory link, such as “/products/”.

Examples:
http://www.cs-cart.com/products/item33
http://www.cs-cart.com/products/item34
http://www.cs-cart.com/products/item35

Benefits:
- Better visibility; users will always know that they on product page
- Easy manage product pages via Robots.txt file by adding single directory (allow/disallow)
Michiel commented · January 23, 2014 14:25 · Flag as inappropriate

We definitely need rich snippets!
Anonymous commented · January 23, 2014 06:37 · Flag as inappropriate

Extension-less URLs will be great addition to this project.

Get rid off forward slash “/” and “.html” at the end of URL.
Anonymous commented · October 18, 2013 07:40 · Flag as inappropriate

Rich snippets should also be added in the SEO add-on.
Party commented · May 06, 2013 21:12 · Flag as inappropriate

I agrees as well!

I will consider this to be a big issue from SEO perspective.
Jason O'Conner commented · July 13, 2012 23:07 · Flag as inappropriate

Definitely every shopping cart software mainly depends on its SEO link structure. The links for products, categories (all level) and pages should be SEO friendly links. Can someone make a addon that re-structures the links to SEO friendly links
Paul commented · June 12, 2012 13:14 · Flag as inappropriate

Agree.
This should be perfectly acceptable:
domain.com/en/category1
domain.com/nl/category1

in 3.0.1, this cannot be done

same category name, unique url
Mike-BWD commented · December 26, 2011 01:55 · Flag as inappropriate

Categories are key names in most sites so having this is a really important part of SEO.
It is better to have this as standard rather than having to custom code as it is a pain when updates are released.
mofojo commented · August 29, 2011 05:57 · Flag as inappropriate

Unique url using features names would be a good idea.
Flow commented · July 31, 2011 12:45 · Flag as inappropriate

I'm not sure, but maybe the new version of cs-cart rocks canonical URL add-on can solve this?
Bernard Colgan commented · June 13, 2011 18:00 · Flag as inappropriate

I agree totaly with this , it make me more likely to buy this product if it was going to be in a upgrade
Zahirr commented · May 26, 2011 10:10 · Flag as inappropriate

I woud suggest a method which lets us over write URLs with our own Keywords for Cats and Sub Cats, Including Product Pages. This gives you better advantage for using keywords of your own choice.

Let me also remind you, H Tags are very important having further improvment for products pages to be optimised can results in products being found on google easier. This would results in better rate of sales.