WDSY Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I have downloaded PS 1.4 rc2 and had high hopes after looking at all the improvements and mods.Shock horror PS still has ugly urls with category numbers? - Why did this not get rebuilt to not function on category & cms page id's? how can you say it has friendly urls when a store with 100+ categories has plain ugly urls with category numbers? I first came to PS 2 years ago and left it alone because of this. Will this problem ever be addressed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsown Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Going to have too have something with numbers. Way to many people with large shops have products with the same name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I've asked the question in a similar thread recently, and I'll ask it again:What are you expecting as the benefit of removing those numbers from the urls? You must have huge expectations, since it seems to be a make or break feature for you.Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chup Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 friendly URL can be activate via the backend, no?backend office > Preference > Friendly URL [YES]backend office > Tools > Generator > Generate .htaccess files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDSY Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 I've asked the question in a similar thread recently, and I'll ask it again:What are you expecting as the benefit of removing those numbers from the urls? You must have huge expectations, since it seems to be a make or break feature for you.Paul Huge expectatoins; No - A level playing field; Yes. How can i compete with other store owners using open source carts when i want my url to be a direct match to what google keyword tool is telling me? not with numbers before cat/product name. Actualy it is make-or-break if you are serious about e-commerce and dont want to spend every hour tinkering under the hood of an open source cart. Or when you hire an SEO person to look at your site, they say can you turn on friendly ursl? - Yeah sure they are already on-only to be scoffed at and asked "is that what prestashop calls friendly? Oh god help me" OK Rant over - Back to Wordpress/Shopify/CS-Cart/Interspire and Opencart ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Angel Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 google no longer pay any attention to the url bar in the ranking of pages.they have issued white papers on this... might i suggest you read them before you pay any seo firm to help you thin your wallet.spend more time on your meta tags and your page text and your image descriptions.this will help you far more than a crumby url line in plain text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Keywords in the url has always been a minor ranking factor (on a par with image filenames containing keywords). Even saying that, the current implementation DOES allow your keywords in the urls.I have to agree with Dave Angel, and in my honest opinion the only benefit of NOT having those numbers in there is aesthetics and simply not worth the effort. Many Wordpress blogs (including my own) have numbers in the url along with keywords (I use dates in mine) and rank just fine.Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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