I'm trying to make my site more SEO friendly and I' noticing that whenever I go to an product through either a tag or a different page (2,3,4 ect) that it adds it to the URL.
For example:
www.wisdomsurvival.com/Guardian-Survival-kit/culinary-can-of-preparedness-seeds.html?page=2
I would like to remove ?page=2 from the path
Opencart 1.5.4
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: My main goal is to have one URL for each page instead of multiple paths. For example:
http://www.wisdomsurvival.com/person-guardian-preparedness-package-camping-bug-out
http://www.wisdomsurvival.com/camping-and-bug-out/person-guardian-preparedness-package-camping-bug-out
The first URL is a direct link, the second comes from clicking from a category, the third (not shown because I can only post 2 links) comes from clicking from a subcategory and the fourth (also not shown) from a manufacturer list.
I need to have them all either redirect to the first URL or just go directly to the first URL without redirecting, along with any other URLS such as the ones that have the page ID path or tag path.
I recognise that theme :-)
Where is the ?page=2 coming from as the link works perfectly without it. You need to trace the source of the link. First try the template views and see if it is a simple link edit in the layout that will accomplish what you need.
If not you may find the information is coded in the controller if it is being dynamically generated. Again you should be able to edit the code that generates the link there.
If not you may find that it is in a model that is being called. Again, just find the model and edit the link structure you find there.
The url on your page will only be a reflection of the url you generated somewhere else in order for the link to be followed in the first place.
Usually when I am building with opencart I find the theme modules are often not coded very well in terms of SEO. Fortunately with opencart these things are usually very easy to remedy.
Top trick -> I often stick additional bits into my urls that have no impact on the page generated but Google picks up on as keywords anyway.
If you post your code if you are having problems reformatting the link formats I will have a look for you,
Hope that helps,
Paul.
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I have a strange problem in one Joomla website.
If i access from homepage and then navigate into the site it works correct, but if i go in some internal page from google results it shows uncorrect page layout, because the url is not correct.
This is the correct url
Correct page from homepage
and this the uncorrect url that Google finds Uncorrect page from Google
in this second page is showed rating module (that i never used) instead of an article, as you can see in links.
Someone can help me?
EDIT: I'm using Joomla 2.5 version. Every menu item is category blog type, and must show all articles of one category. Each category have 2 articles. In the uncorrect link seems that it access to single article, adding the rating that i have hidden in each article
Which version are you using?
if you can turn on SEF option in the global settings in joomla admin. Then you need to make sure all your articles are in menus. then if you link them on different pages it should keep the url the same.
The way you have it at the moment with all the x=123&... get params pages will show for what ever ids you change the menu to.
The reason you are seeing an uncorrect layout is the two different Itemid parameters (the right url has 127 while the wrong one has 104). The rest of the difference in the urls will be ignored by Joomla.
Solution: Find your menu item with id 104 (look at the menu ids on the right of the menu items view), then check which modules appear on the page from there. There may be modules in non-visible positions.
One of these modules is publishing the links with the wrong ids. If it's a Joomla core (like a search module) you can usually force the Itemid either in the module or in the component's configuration. Else you need to fixsome third party code.
Only once you have solved the multiple-itemid should you turn on SEF, otherwise you'd get the same problem only more difficult to trace.
sh404 could help you with this, I'd give it a try on a test site to see if it gets you out of trouble faster.
I am having similar problem in my other pages and it’s driving me crazy. I have modified a “manufacturer” module to “series”
as well as the link too.
For example, I was able to change this link:
bishounenboutique.com/manufacturer
to this:
bishounenboutique.com/series
Click on the breadcrumbs, and
the they are fine in that page. However,
if you click on top image “Psycho pass” for example in that link, it will redirect to:
bishounenboutique.com/index.php?route=product/manufacturer/product&manufacturer_id=13
(which is not what i want. Ideally I want the link to be bishounenboutique.com/psycho-pass)
But set that aside, on that page if you click on the breadcrumb link “series”, it gives:
bishounenboutique.com/index.php?route=series
but it is supposed to be:
bishounenboutique.com/series
!!!
Can anyone please give me an idea of why this is happening?
I have already enabled SEO url and renamed the htaccess file. But I don't know why it works on some links but not others.
Thank you.
Products, Manufacturers, Information Pages and Categories all have SEO keyword fields, which you can find in their DATA tabs (except for Manufacturers which is in the GENERAL tab). These need to be set for all of the above to make them work. The reason the second link you've shown doesn't work is because it's product/manufacturer/product not just product/manufacturer
EDIT
product/manufacturer/product is actually a manufacturer link - it's just poorly named by OpenCart. OpenCart still knows it is a manufacturer link and you can see that by the id that's passed along with it (manufacturer_id not product_id)
Also, OC isn't meant to rewrite it's standard URL's, only product, category, manufacturer (individual manufacturer pages not the list of manufacturers) and info pages. This works on all versions that I'm aware of so if it's not with yours, the vQmod is likely at fault and you'll need to get the developer of that to fix it
I've written a route editor mod myself that doesn't require going in and hacking up a vQmod to get it to work so I understand the complications with it
Would be great if you guys could shed some light on this, has baffled me:
I was asked by a client if I could try and make the search term for his comedy night "sketchercise" put his website top of the Google ranking. I simply changed the title tag of the header for the whole site from "Allnutt and Simpson" to "Allnutt and Simpson - Sketchercise # Ginglik - Sketch Duo". It did the trick and now the site comes up top of the Google listing when typing in "sketchercise". However, it gives off this very strange link:
http://www.allnuttandsimpson.com/index.php/videos/
This is the link to the google search result too:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=sketchercise
This link is invalid, it doesn't make any sense. I guess it has something to do with the use of hash tags and the AJAX driven site, but before I changed the title tag, it linked to the site fine using the # tags. What is the deal with this slash?
The strangest part is that the valid URL for the videos page on that site is /index.php#vidspics, I have never used the word "videos" in a url!
If anyone can explain the cause of this or just help me stop it from happening, I'd be very grateful. I realise that this is an SEO question and I hate that stuff generally, but I hope you can see this is a bit of a strange case!
Just to compare, if you google "allnutt and simpson" it works just fine links to the site and all of it's pages absolutely fine as .php pages (and then my JS converts them to hash tags to keep things clean)
It's because there must be a folder called 'videos' under your hosted files, use an FTP client and check this.
Google crawls every folder and file unless you tell him not to do this, look for robot.txt files to learn how to avoid indexation.
Also ask google to remove that result when you solve this.
Finally that behaviour is not related with hash tags, these are just references to javascript in order to display the appropiate content in you webpage.
Not sure why its posted like this but the only way to stop that page from appearing is using a google webmaster account for this website and make sure the crawlers can't find this link anymore. The alternative is have the site admin put this tag, <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> , in the header when isset($_REQUEST(videos)) is true.
The slash in the address is the parsed form of www.allnuttandsimpson.com/index.php?=videos. You can have the web server change all the php parameters into slashes to make the links look pretty.
Best option for correct results is to create a sitemap and submit it to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ for that site. You will need access.
Oh forgot, the sitemap will make google see all the pages you want it to post, use this for the major pages like those in the main menu. To remove links you don't want requires a robots.txt in the main directory of the site.
I am not particularly familiar with DotNetNuke, so please correct me if I am using any wrong terminology.
I have a client who has a bunch of links that are hardcoded in an HTML module. The URL's looks like the following:
http://www.siteurl.org/level1/level2/level3/level4/pageName.aspx
So the URL for the page is basically made from how the menu is constructed. When I change any order in the menu, this breaks the hardcoded links. Is there a way to use something like an ID instead for the URL so no matter what my menu looks like, the page will be resolved properly?
You could use an ID for the pages, linking to
http://www.siteurl.org/default.aspx?tabid=## where ## is the ID for each page.
Now the key will be to find the proper IDs which you could do by looking at the HTML source of the Admin/Pages page.
That being said, the proper thing to do, would be to not MOVE or RENAME pages, this breaks all the old URLS (as you're experiencing) as well as those pages/urls in any search indexes.
A better way, though more work, would be to create a new page at the new PATH (where you move things to) and then redirect the old page to the new page (in the page settings). This requires quite a bit of work, but is the best way currently to handle old URLs, I have a video example of this at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Video-Library/Viewer/VideoId/213/Renaming-A-Page-In-DotNetNuke-.aspx
I'm on the way of creating a blog through ASP.NET MVC framework. All the articles I'm going to submit have the same layout only the main content differs. So I created a common view that dynamically loads the content from a physical file(contains only the particular article markup) in a section. So all the url requests send by users points to a same physical file that dynamically loads a particular section based upon the article. Is this the right approach? Is this create some problems in SEO? I'm eager to hear from you. [UPDATED] The urls of the articles look like http://myblog.com/blog/archives/2011/1/using_asp_mvc. All these kind of requests are received by a single page that loads the content of the article from another physical file in it.
I think you need to rewrite the url like in
http://www.cricandcric.com/Cricket-News/4182/Cricket-West-Indies-:-I-am-sure-that-West-Indies-will-bounce-back-,-said-Hooper.html
If you obesrve this I have done the URL Rewriting, which will be user friendly for the search engines.
You can find good references at following url
http://www.webconfs.com/url-rewriting-tool.php
http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php
To make it more understandable about the power of url rewriting
if you search for "I am sure that West Indies will bounce back , said Hooper"
in google, you can see our cricandcric.com in the first page