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sushisushi · 02-02-2009 10:35:31

Hi Guys, trawled around the forum but couldn't find and answer to my question.

Our site is installed in a subdirectory called /store/

When you first go onto our site wwwsushisushi.co.uk you get redirected via a htaccess redirect to our index page. (not the splash page).
From this page if you click on any of the catagories for example the first one "sushi Machines and Kits" you get this in the url bar:

http://www.sushisushi.co.uk/store/index … b1j8hn0r7a

but when you go back to the splash verion of the home page and click on the same catagory link you get:

http://www.sushisushi.co.uk/store/gbu0- … s+and.html

This is the SEO verion I want. Basicly what I want is to redirect wwwsushisushi.co.uk to http://www.sushisushi.co.uk/store/gbu0- … plash.html

but it just wont do it meaning google is crawling all the wrong links from our homepage.

Any thoughts?

Dave · 02-02-2009 10:45:03

What's in your .htaccess file?

sushisushi · 02-02-2009 10:47:12

sushisushi · 02-02-2009 10:49:03

ugly I know, but we had a lot of pages off the old site that deeded the redirects. Maybe conflicting?

Dave · 02-02-2009 10:56:42

Move the following rule to the end of the file and see what happens.

Code:

RewriteRule ^store/(.*)-(.*)/(.*)\.html store/index.php?app=$1&ns=$2&ref=$3 [L,PT]

You probably don't want/need the [L,PT] on it after moving it in the file.

sushisushi · 02-03-2009 04:27:15

did that, no joy im afraid

Dave · 02-03-2009 05:40:07

I must be misunderstanding what the problem is. I just clicked through most of your categories and went back and forth to the home page and didn't observe any problems with the URLs. The very first time someone hits your site the links will NOT be in SEO format because CCP can't know at that point whether or not the cookie it tried to set was accepted so it carries the SID in the URL. As soon as someone goes to a second page in your site the fact that the cookie was saved allows the rewriting of the URLs to happen.

sushisushi · 02-03-2009 07:17:24

i see, so redirecting to the splash page will make no difference. Will this have a detremental effect on how google views our site?

Dave · 02-03-2009 07:58:39

sushisushi wrote:
i see, so redirecting to the splash page will make no difference.

I don't understand what you mean. The "landing" page is the splash page in CCP terms.

sushisushi wrote:
Will this have a detremental effect on how google views our site?

I can't imagine why it would but nobody can be positive on what SEs like from one day to the next.

Is there a reason you don't have CCP in the root of your site? It doesn't have to be in a directory and you don't appear to have anything in the root directory of your site that would conflict with having CCP there.

RArch · 02-03-2009 13:40:32

Is there advantages having CCP on the root as I have done the same?

Dave · 02-03-2009 13:48:56

Some would say it's better for search engines though I believe that that is debatable. Having it in the root can result in a "cleaner" looking URL but that's really a matter of personal choice and taste. The only time it can't really go in the root, from my perspective, is when you already have an active site with a lot of other content and are simply adding shopping to the site. In that situation it really makes more sense to put it in a directory (again, that's just my opinion). In either situation the search engines will find it.

RArch · 02-03-2009 18:19:09

Thanks for your opinion Dave

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index.php just won't redirect!

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