sh404sef and Virtuemart 2rc

[lindapowers]

Great

Now clean your browser cache.

[jjk]

Good point 
However, that hardly makes any difference (just tested this with german VM2 sites again). When cleaning the browser cache, I see two or three paid advertisings by Google above the VM2 websites. The good position of the VM2 shop SERPS seems to be mainly a result of the Product Name automatically being used as the title tag and the brower page title. The VM2 shops I looked at, didn't even use the available 'Product Meta Description' and 'Product Meta Key'.

Maybe VM2 behaves a little bit different with Joomla 1.5.x, because SEO handling in J1.5.x is different. ( ...I won't re-install J1.5.x in order to find out that :-)

[jan suhr]

The other option is to explain why SEO doesn't work with VM2 and make suggestions for improvement.

You could add a field for page title in the Meta tab, that would be a great start.

But better would be if we could customize the title to not just include meta data from that field, I would like to be able to add page titles from variables so I could build a title depending on products, categories and some other words as well.

Something like: Product 1 | Another great product | Category | Great shipping service | Shop name

This can be done in other shops.

With your experiment on Google, did you use the whole product title? What happened if you just used the first one or two words from the title?

Jan

[jjk]

With your experiment on Google, did you use the whole product title? What happened if you just used the first one or two words from the title?

I used the whole product title, which in most cases was the product name used by the manufacturer. Still have to test partial product names.

At my place it's just past midnight, so ...Happy New Year! 

[alatak]

Hi,

Anyway, i have contacted the author of sh404sef, and ask him about his plan. We had talked together some months ago, and he planned to develop the plugin. I will keep you informed.
It is more logical that he does it.
But if he does not, then we might do it.

[jan suhr]

Alatak,

That is good news! And a great start of the new year!

Jan

[aitor88]

Some news?

[alatak]

Hi,

I have talked to sh404sef author. Either they do it, either we do it .

The question is: do you really need it?

[aitor88]

thanks for the answer. In my case the problem is that with the sh404 component even if I select 'use joomla router.php' the link/url are created but it doesn't insert right page title/description. If I select 'use sh404' it puts right title/description but missed the link/url

[aitor88]

ps: i would buy this "plugin" if it was available because i have a online shop and for me is very important

[Netburn]

Hey Guys,


Of course we need the plugin for sh404sef, as I already use that component with Virtuemart 1.1.x and upgrading to 2.0 would mess things up.

Is there any release date for the plugin?


Thanks!

[jjk]

...upgrading to 2.0 would mess things up

Not necessarily. VM2 will produce urls like for example "YourDomain/YourVM2CategoryName/YourProductName-detail".
And Joomla 2.5.x comes with its own Redirect Manager, which you could use to redirect your old VM1 urls to the new ones, if necessary.

[Maverix]

Hi,

we strongly need the possibility to define the URLs because otherwise we never can migrate to VM 2.0

Our shop is well positioned in Google and has URLs like this:
domain/onlineshop/category/product

When we switch to VM 2.0 the URLs must remain constant otherwise Google kicks our site.

So please implement a configurable SEF option into VM.

Thanks.

Regards Kai

[jjk]

@Maverix
Compare my url (Joomla 2.5.1/VirtueMart 2) with your url. You should see that it is exactly the same url design that you currently have. The difference is, that I don't use sh404sef or anything similar. (A note in german: Wenn Sie immer noch sh404sef einsetzen wollen, ist das in Ihrem Fall ungefaehr so wie der der sprichwoertliche Heizer auf der E-Lok. Translates into something like: If you still want to use sh404sef, in your case that is like insisting on the boilerman to work on an electric locomotive 

My url:

Code Select Expand

http://MeineDomain/zur-galerie/automobilkunst/maserati-450s-coupe

Your url:

Code Select Expand

http://YourDomain/onlineshop/wohnaccessoires/blumentopf-_-blomus

And last but not least, if that doesn't work for some special urls, that is what the "Redirect" feature in Joomla since version 1.6+ is for:
See Google's tutorial here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

[Maverix]

Hi jjk,

thanks for your reply.

On my test site I get URLs with -detail appended to the product name.
When I delete the -detail in configuration my VM doesn't work anymore.

Thanks.

Regards Kai