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Search Engine Optimized Zen Cart URL's - A Definite Must!

Zen Cart SEO URL's - A full featured SEO solution for Zen Cart!

Overview

Magic SEO URL for Zen Cart changes the dynamic URLs to static, well-structured SEO friendly URLs. It includes verification and validation of each URL, support for safe change of URLs and redirections from all native and rewritten Zen Cart URLs, proper Sessions IDs handling*, high speed without negative effects to server load or web server response, it also prevents possible duplicate content penalties and much much more in comparison with other SEO solutions!

  • Supports heavily modified shopping carts!
  • Allows indexing your shopping cart by web crawlers in multiple languages!
  • Does not break any installed Add-ons, Modules or Templates/Themes
  • Free add-on: Sitemaps!
  • You add only one line of code for installation!
  • Ready to purchase? Follow this link, your download will be delivered after successful completion of the checkout process.

Ultimate SEO URLs for Zen Cart vs. Magic SEO URL for Zen Cart

  Magic SEO URL
for Zen Cart
Ultimate SEO URLs
for Zen Cart
Static URLs Yes Yes
Key-word URLs Yes Yes
Well-structured URLs Yes No
Supported types of URLs categories, products (unlimited products types), manufacturers, new products, specials, all products, featured products, reviews, EZ Pages, account, shopping cart, search and more 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 Zen Cart 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
Sesions IDs removing
(prevents possible duplicate content penalties)
Yes
(when spider detected)
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
No modifications to Zen Cart files required Yes No

As you can see from this table, Magic SEO URL for Zen Cart is not another attempt for real Zen Cart Seach Engine Optimization - it is full featured solution, which increases your monthly revenues earned from your shopping cart. Your pages will be indexed faster and more often and receive the highest pagerank possible due to the fact that you receive no duplicate content penalties. Also, you will get more of your products pages indexed in the major Search Engines and visitors who are more highly targeted to the products you provide - your keyword relevancy for all pages will be improved.

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Features

  • Changes the dynamic URLs to static pages with SEO friendly URLs
  • Generates well-structured URLs in relation to catalog content
  • Verifies and validates each URL
    If the user/visitor makes any mistake in the URL, it is redirected to the correct URL - no HTTP 404/Not Found error or content penalty occur. E.g.:
    www.example.com/your-wrong-category-name-1/ your-wrong-subcategory-name-1/your-wrong-product-name-1.html to www.example.com/your-category-name-1/your-subcategory-name-1/ your-product-name-1.html
  • Supports safe changes of URLs
    If any page receives new URL due to change in the content, all older URLs still work and the web browser or crawler is redirected through HTTP 301 Moved Permanently to the new URL. E.g.:
    www.example.com/your-category-name-1/ to www.example.com/your-new-category-name-1/
  • Supports redirections 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/
  • Prevents possible duplicate content penalties - no duplicate content available on the different 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/category-name-1/subcategory-name-1/ product-name-1.html
    ...and more - Magic SEO URL 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)
  • Multi language mode and single language mode
    If your Zen Cart based shopping cart is using several languages, Magic SEO URL for Zen Cart splits your shopping cart to virtual directories containing language code. Otherwise there is no any splitting to 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 easier.
  • Properly Sessions IDs handling
    Sessions IDs (zenid parameter in URLs) are removed when one of 120 worldwide webcrawlers is detected. Also, if the webcrawler finds backward link with Session ID, it is redirected to the URL without this parameter.
  • Possibility to set Maximum number of words in one URI's level
    Others are omitted in URIs.
  • Possibility to set Minimum word's length
    Shorter words are excluded from URIs.
  • Various versions for different encodings (ISO/CP), UTF-8 supported.
  • High speed without negative effects to server load or web server response due to two level cache and RegEx optimizations
    Does not add any SQL queries - fancy data for SEO friendly URLs are cached in the system memory during script execution and are also stored to the special files for future usage to save database server resources.
    All Rewrite Rules are optimized for maximum speed.
  • Does not break any installed Add-ons, Modules or Templates/Themes
  • No modifications to Zen Cart files required
    You add only one line of code for installation.

Requirements

  • ZenCart 1.3.x is recommended (latest 1.3.8 was also tested successfully), but lower versions work also, including heavily modified ZenCart based shopping carts
  • Apache 1.3.x, 2.0.x or 2.2.x with mod_rewrite installed and .htaccess file handling enabled (or with ability to add Rewrite Rules to Apache configuration files).
    Alternatively also Microsoft IIS with
    IIS Mod-Rewrite (recommended) or ISAPI Rewrite 3.x and higher installed.
  • PHP 4.3 or 5 and higher (Safe Mode is supported)
  • Zend Optimizer 3.0 or higher installed as PHP extension (free download)

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* Sessions IDs (zenid parameter in URLs) are removed when one of 120 worldwide webcrawlers is detected. Also, if the webcrawler finds backward link with Session ID, it is redirected to the URL without this parameter.