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.
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/
23 comments
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P-Pharma commented
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
Vote here for better implementation:
http://cscart.uservoice.com/forums/134344-cs-cart/suggestions/6613112-fix-seo-addon
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Paul John commented
"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
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-categoryI 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.
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Adminimac (Admin, CS-Cart) commented
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.
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Paul commented
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
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?
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Party commented
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/motivationHere 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
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/item35Benefits:
- 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
We definitely need rich snippets!
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Anonymous commented
Extension-less URLs will be great addition to this project.
Get rid off forward slash “/” and “.html” at the end of URL.
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Anonymous commented
Rich snippets should also be added in the SEO add-on.
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Party commented
I agrees as well!
I will consider this to be a big issue from SEO perspective.
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Jason O'Conner commented
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
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Paul commented
Agree.
This should be perfectly acceptable:
domain.com/en/category1
domain.com/nl/category1in 3.0.1, this cannot be done
same category name, unique url
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Mike-BWD commented
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
Unique url using features names would be a good idea.
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Flow commented
I'm not sure, but maybe the new version of cs-cart rocks canonical URL add-on can solve this?
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Bernard Colgan commented
I agree totaly with this , it make me more likely to buy this product if it was going to be in a upgrade
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Zahirr commented
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.