How can I create custom SEO-friendly URLs in OpenCart?

It turns out this can be done with a relatively simple change to a single file. No .htaccess rewrite rules, simply patch the catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php file and add your pretty URLs to an existing database table. The patch to seo_url.php: Index: catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php =================================================================== — catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (old) +++ catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (new) @@ -48,7 +42,12 @@ $this->request->get[‘route’] = ‘product/manufacturer/product’; … Read more

How can I create custom SEO-friendly URLs in OpenCart?

It turns out this can be done with a relatively simple change to a single file. No .htaccess rewrite rules, simply patch the catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php file and add your pretty URLs to an existing database table. The patch to seo_url.php: Index: catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php =================================================================== — catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (old) +++ catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (new) @@ -48,7 +42,12 @@ $this->request->get[‘route’] = ‘product/manufacturer/product’; … Read more

Robots.txt: Is this wildcard rule valid?

The answer is, “it depends”. The robots.txt “standard” as defined at robotstxt.org is the minimum that bots are expected to support. Googlebot, MSNbot, and Yahoo Slurp support some common extensions, and there’s really no telling what other bots support. Some say what they support and others don’t. In general, you can expect the major search … Read more

Do SEO-friendly URLs really affect a page’s ranking? [closed]

I will let google answer to your question: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html In the article: Which can Googlebot read better, static or dynamic URLs? […]While static URLs might have a slight advantage in terms of clickthrough rates because users can easily read the urls, the decision to use database-driven websites does not imply a significant disadvantage in terms … Read more