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I have been getting requests to remove the Extreme SEO XMOD from v7 sites in preparation for a v7 to v8 upgrade and while I am happy to support my software/customers, there is something to consider.

If you remove the Extreme SEO XMOD and upgrade to v8, and ASSUMING v8 cannot handle Extreme SEO XMOD URLs, then all of your search engine indexed URLs will cease to work properly and will likely take search engine directed visitors  to a v8 generic error page which will be bad for your search engine placement.

This problem can be avoided by making sure that the following Extreme SEO XMOD rules remain in your .htaccess file and are placed before any v8 rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^([^/].+)/([^--].+)--(.+)\.html$ /index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=$3 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^([^--].+)--(.+)\.htm$ /index.php?app=cms&ns=display&ref=$2 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^([^--].+)--(.+)\.html$ /index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=$2 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-(.*)/(.*)\.html /index.php?app=$1&ns=$2&ref=$3 [L,PT]

After doing this for backwards compatibility, simply remove the following file from your v7 installation to remove the Extreme SEO XMOD:

core-private/core/CORE/tasks_startup/0400_extremeseo.php

and then upgrade v7 to v8 as per the Kryptronic documentation.

Thank you,

-Stephen Madison