Tanatus Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 My question is directed to Presta developers. Are there some plans to remove id (which is obligatory in address linking) from SEF links? If no, then WHY? From search engine and technical side, I undertand, that it is not a problem. But from user / customer side it looks a bit uncomfortable, when buying "12345-brand-computer" or "345-artist-musicfile". Of coarse this issue is solved with manual code changes or third party addons, but in any way - why just not to remove or, at least, be able to deactivate them in SEO settings? Frankly speaking, at the moment I'm Virtuemart user. And it does not have id's in product addresses. But now I plan and working on switching my eshops to Presta, and this caused some uncomfortable feelings. As a matter of test,I've tried beta of Presta 1.6, a great job !!!, a lot of "sweet" upgrades and changes, but there is still "id" issue. In any way, I'd like to hear some comments from developers, if any, or Presta users. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 in my opinion it's not good idea to remove id numbers from link why? if you change name from beds for example to super-beds, your old link http://www.domain.co.uk/beds will loose whole seo because new url will look like http://www.domain.co.uk/super-beds when someone will open old page /beds - it will not work as it work with id number in url, user will not be redirected - instead of this your customer will see 404 or internal prestashop "page not found". definitely bad, for customers, and for seo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanatus Posted February 6, 2014 Author Share Posted February 6, 2014 in my opinion it's not good idea to remove id numbers from link why? if you change name from beds for example to super-beds, your old link http://www.domain.co.uk/beds will loose whole seo because new url will look like http://www.domain.co.uk/super-beds when someone will open old page /beds - it will not work as it work with id number in url, user will not be redirected - instead of this your customer will see 404 or internal prestashop "page not found". definitely bad, for customers, and for seo. But in admin, or in database, id will remain. Can you explain the difference? And also, how Presta SEF redirect works in general? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruna BSPCU Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Use this module: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/204935-override-friendly-urls-without-id-number-for-v15/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanatus Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 Use this module: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/204935-override-friendly-urls-without-id-number-for-v15/ I tried it. A very good addon. But... Problems could appear after Presta update. And, some modules deny to work normally. That is the problem for me. For the moment, I returned to use addresses with ids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystian Podemski Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Vekia - there is no problem to redirect old urls to new urls, really. Im sure that if developers really want to add this feature this will be available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 yeah, it's not problem, but it must be developed first all available modules/overrides for urls without ID - haven't got this feature, all of them arent usueful, this is why i wrote about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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