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Polar Bear
Polar Bear

Reputation: 131

Open Cart SEO different aspect

I have a doubt regarding open cart SEO. First I would mentioned that, I already know about SEO and I can successfully made my SEO link works. 

www.mysite.com/index.php?route=product_id=18

will trigger 

www.mysite.com/old_woody_bag

after the click on the menu by the function of $this->url->link in the href.

But then is there anyway to change the link automatically when I PASTE straight away into the URL.

paste 

www.mysite.com/index.php?route=product_id=18

in the url and hit ENTER.

it cannot automatically changed to 

www.mysite.com/old_woody_bag

I found some site talking about changing index.php to check the link and redirect to SEO or by changing .htaccess to force the link into SEO. But I do not understand how it really works. By the way, my condition is to avoid touching .htaccess file. Is there anyone already did it out there? Kindly tell me if there is already some hidden post about this and I will remove this post. Thank you! Your help is also much appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (1)

sophie
sophie

Reputation: 242

I do agree with you Polar, sometime it happen that the crawler stat indexing non SEO url and you are end up with having two different copy (URL) of same page in search engine index.

I studied your requirement and strongly recommend doing permanent redirection from non seo to seo url. I am not sure how to do it in open cart but i am sure you will find some plugin for that (if you don't want to touch .htaccess file).

Upvotes: 1

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