Magic SEO URLs for Zen Cart v1.3.x 3.1

Magic SEO URLs for Zen Cart is superior to similar Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Enhancement solutions for a number of reasons.

Magic SEO URLs for Zen Cart module changes dynamic URLs to static, well-structured SEO friendly formats which help improve Search Engine ranking (PageRank) and readability. This module includes the verification and validation of each SEO URL; it supports safe changes of SEO URLs as well as redirects from all native and rewritten Zen Cart URLs. This module properly handle Sessions IDs*, operates at a high speed without negative effects on server load or response time, prevent duplicate content penalties and much more!

* Sessions IDs (zenid parameter in URLs) are removed when one of 120 world-wide web robots is detected. If the web robot finds a backward link containing a Session ID, it is redirected to the non-Session ID version of the SEO URL.

Overview - Zen Cart SEO

• Maximizes your site's PageRank!
• Brings your site up on SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages)!
• Helps you succeed in your SEO strategy!
• Allows website indexing by web robots in multiple languages
• Supports heavily modified Zen Cart shopping carts
• Does not break any installed Zen Cart add-ons, modules or templates/skins
• Features easy installation - requires only one line of code
• Comes with an optional installation service
• Includes a free Sitemaps XML Add-On
• Supported by the official Zen Cart SitemapXML module

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Features - Zen Cart SEO

• Changes dynamic URLs into static SEO friendly URLs
• Generates well-structured SEO URLs in relation to catalogued content
• Verifies and validates each SEO URL

  If a user/visitor makes any mistake in the SEO URL, he/she is redirected to the correct SEO URL - no HTTP 404/Not Found error or content penalty occurs. E.g.:
  www.example.com/your-wrong-product-name-1.html to www.example.com/your-product-name-1.html

• Supports safe changes of SEO URLs

  If a page receives a new SEO URL because of the content changes, all older SEO URLs will still be valid. The web browser or crawler will be redirected via HTTP 301 Moved Permanently to the new SEO URL. E.g.:
  www.example.com/your-category-name-1/ to www.example.com/your-new-category-name-1/

• Supports redirects from ALL original Zen Cart URLs

  E.g.: www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&cPath=2_5 to www.example.com/category-name-2/subcategory-name-5/

• Possible to set URI mode for products

  Products can be placed in root directory or in structured categories.

• Possible to set delimiter in URIs between keywords

  Delimiter can be changed in all URIs.

• Possible to set URIs file extension

  Extension can be e.g. .html, .xhtml or it can be completely removed.

• Possible to limit the maximum number of words in the URI's level

  Others are omitted in URIs.

• Possible to limit the minimum word length

  Shorter words are excluded from URIs.

• Prevents possible duplicate content penalties - no duplicate content available for different SEO URLs

  E.g.: www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=product_info&pro ducts_id=1 and www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=product_info&cPath=1_4&pro ducts_id=1 will be www.example.com/product-name-1.html
  ...and more - Inveo Magic SEO URLs for Zen Cart fix many duplicate content penalties such as:
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=product_info&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=product_info&manu facturers_id=1&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=product_reviews&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=products_new&act ion=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&cPath=1_4&sort=2a&act ion=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&cPath=1_4&sort=2d&act ion=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&cPath=1_4&sort=3a&act ion=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&cPath=1_4&sort=3d&act ion=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&manu facturers_id=1&sort=2a&action=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&manu facturers_id=1&sort=2d&action=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&manu facturers_id=1&sort=3a&action=buy_now&products_id=1
  www.example.com/index.php?mainpage=index&manu facturers_id=1&sort=3d&action=buy_now&products_id=1
  and much more!

• Prevents possible duplicate content penalties of Notify (add/remove) links
• 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!
  (also incorrect backward links are redirected to www.example.com)

• Includes multi-language and single-language modes

  If your Zen Cart-based shopping cart uses several languages, the Inveo Magic SEO URLs for Zen Cart will split your shopping cart into virtual directories that contain language code. Otherwise, your cart is not split into language code directories.

• Supports unlimited Products Types

  Properly handles settings of Product Types in Zen Cart administration (Catalog - Product Types).

• Makes all relative URLs absolute

  Search Engines will spider your shopping cart more easily.

• Properly Sessions IDs handling

  Sessions IDs (zenid parameter in URLs) are removed when one of 120 world-wide web robots is detected. If the web robot finds a backward link containing a Session ID, it is redirected to the non-Session ID version of the SEO URL.

• Supports a number of character encodings

  cp-1250, cp-1251, cp-1252, cp-1254, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-7, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-15 and utf-8

• Two level cache and RegEx optimizations allow for high speed operations without hurting server load or web server response times

  Does not add any SQL queries – in order to save database server resources, data for SEO friendly URLs are cached in the system memory during the script execution and are also stored to the special files for future reference.
  All Rewrite Rules are optimized for maximum speed.

• Supports PHP 5.3
• Separate optimized versions

  PHP 4.3 and higher, PHP 5.0/5.1/5.2 and PHP 5.3. All in one package!

• Does not break any installed add-ons, modules or templates/themes
• No modifications to Zen Cart core files are required

  Only one line of code is needed for installation.

Requirements - Zen Cart SEO

• Zen Cart 1.3.x is recommended (1.3.8a as well as 1.3.9h was also tested successfully), but earlier versions work as well, including the heavily modified Zen Cart based shopping carts
• Apache with mod_rewrite installed and .htaccess file handling enabled (or with an ability to add Rewrite Rules to Apache configuration files);
  Or Microsoft IIS with IIS Mod-Rewrite (recommended) or ISAPI Rewrite 3.x and higher installed.
• PHP 4.3 or 5 and later (Safe Mode is supported)
• Zend Optimizer 3.0 and later or Zend Guard Loader installed as PHP extension (free download)*

What do you get after purchasing this Zen Cart SEO?

• Inveo Magic SEO URLs for Zen Cart 1.3.x 3.x
• Licences to use on one (1) live and two (2) development sites (the number of licenses can be increased in special cases - such as a separate HTTPS site - upon request at no charge)
• Full documentation (including the installation and update instructions)
• Free and very fast Technical support (2 years)
• Installation service (optional for a fee)
• Free product updates within purchased series
• Free Sitemaps XML Add-On

* Even if your web host doesn't have the Zend Optimizer/Zend Guard Loader installed, we are able to install it on most web servers (administrator/root permissions are not necessary).