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    Screen=USL????

    Just upgraded from Merchant v4 to v5 this past weekend and using Sebenza Ultimate SEO Links. I checked Google Analytics to see how are site was doing after the move and I noticed that a bunch of our landing pages look like this: /SONY+EVI-HD1.html?Screen=USL&Code=store/sony_evi-hd1

    Does anyone know what the Screen code USL is???? and why our pages would be showing up like this? The landing pages "should" look like this: /SONY+EVI-HD1.html

    I have a feeling it has something to do with the Ultimate SEO Links coding.

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    Re: Screen=USL????

    USL is an internal screen code used by the module so it can perform the short link work. It sounds like there's an issue in your site's .htaccess file where it's taking the incoming link and redirecting to the USL URL instead of just rewriting to it internally. For example, the line that does the Screen=USL stuff may have a [R=301] on the end which generally should not be there, but don't just strip that off as there may be other issues and removing it could break the whole site. Have someone knowledgeable in how that module is supposed to be set up check the file out for you.
    David Hubbard
    CIO
    Miva
    [email protected]
    http://www.miva.com

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      #3
      Re: Screen=USL????

      We see that problem quite a bit. It has to do with how you are 301 redirecting your old urls to your new urls. If you send me your .htaccess file I can point you in the right direction.
      Brennan Heyde
      VP Product
      Miva, Inc.
      [email protected]
      https://www.miva.com

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        #4
        Re: Screen=USL????

        I'm getting those USL screens also.

        Another thing i wanted to ask.... When we first began this site, we did not name the url's with the product name in them. Today, we have begun to do that. as seen http://www.girlfriendslingerie.com/u...ni-em2003.html

        Yet having to name the code this way to get the name in there seems to be an odd way of doing it. primarily, cause on the page it may look Spammy to the engines and just kinda odd looking in general.

        Question is. Is there some way to write in the .htaccess to allow The "Product name" automatically made to be the url. The way it is now, im having to do this in the CODE 'usa-flag-bikini-em2003" and this in the name "USA Flag Bikini EM2003" Kinda looks and seems silly on-site when you look at it.

        And if this can be done, what would happen to the older products that were done with just a Number in the code? Anyway, to rewrite them so they would still work. Anyways, with that USL issue and this both being an .htaccess issues perhaps someone could figure them out.

        Thanks
        Last edited by Datagg; 06-22-10, 05:17 PM.
        Dan

        Girlfriends Lingerie - "Keeping It Sexy!"
        Sexy Lingerie - Twitter - Facebook- Pinterest - YouTube

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          #5
          Re: Screen=USL????

          Brennan, your solution worked:

          We changed:

          redirect 301 /store/video_conferencing.html http://www.goelectronic.com/2+VIDEO+CONFERENCING.html


          to this:

          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/store/video_conferencing.html$ [NC]
          RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.goelectronic.com/2+VIDEO+CONFERENCING.html? [R=301,L]


          Instead of doing a simple 301 redirect this is implementing a rewrite rule but as a 301 redirect. It 301 redirects the URL but also removes all trailing parameters after the .html.

          Thanks for your help with this. These rewrites can be tricky.

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