This is a post regarding 301 Redirects with OpenCart and OpenCart 1.5 / 1.5.1

Are you having a problem with your OpenCart SEO? Are you trying to add 301 Redirects?

Are you getting ?_route_= added to the end of your redirects and Error Not Found Message?

There is one fix, that will work, it does however still change the target URL, you have to add an ?, yes a question mark!

Here’s an example of what you’d use for a 301 Redirect in OpenCarts .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url?
or
Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url/?

I hope this helped you guys out!

I get a lot of OpenCart Related traffic to my site, interested in advertising or maybe you need some SEO Services for your OpenCart Store?  If you want to know more feel free to email me at:  seo@itsadam.co.uk

I keep getting a problem when using Dreamweaver Find and Replace – whilst modifying certain PHP files, but mainly with wordpress.

It has become apparent, that the crappy software decides to some how add spaces all over the shop like some random crack head, So if  you go to your PHP / WordPress Plugin / WordPress Theme and get this error:

The plugin generated 2 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.

The not to worry! Chances are you’ve got some white space / spaces after the closing php tag!

For those who have been tinkering and are not certain what a closing PHP tag is then this is it:

?php>

Anyway, I hope that fixed your problem

SEO Mansfield

This is just an example test just to show my highly ranking, busy traffic blog site will do for the term search engine optimisation Mansfield, or SEO Mansfield, whatever really.

My personal blog is in a lot of the top 3 results on page one of Google for a vast range of terms, including ones like OpenCart 1.5 Templates / Themes etc.

From OpenCart to Web Design Randomness, the SEO power of this blog seems to be rather immense, and I’m pretty sure I can show this off to potential clients on why writing blog posts is so important for search engine optimisation.

WordPress is awesome for SEO, it was built for blogs, helping to get peoples ramblings, ideas and points of view across to the world, with the post Categories and Post tags, along with some awesome SEO plugins available for free, it’s made WordPress the perfect framework to build a search engine friendly CMS site with.

If you’re interested in SEO / Search Engine Optimisation and you’re from the Mansfield / Nottinghamshire area then feel free to contact dijitul via: www.dijitul.co.uk or 01623 650 333.

We’re fantastic at what we do!

- Web Design Mansfield

Have you upgraded to Opencart 1.5

Versions: v1.5.0.3 v1.5.0.2 v1.5.0.1 v1.5.0

I had problems getting the SEO Friendly URLS to work on my Opencart 1.5.0.3 install, after looking in the HTACCESS file I found this:

RewriteBase /opencart/upload/

The fix to make the SEO Friendly URLS – MOD REWRITE work change that line to:

RewriteBase /

Basically just remove the opencart/upload/  part!

There we go! Problem Solved!”

Alternatively if you’re unsure about editing files, simply upload the .htaccess file saved here, tested on the OpenCart versions 1.5.0.3 and below:

> Download the fixed .htaccess file

Are you looking to get your OpenCart Store ranked in google? contact:   seo@itsadam.co.uk and we will discuss your OpenCart SEO Needs!

As a fun little experiment I’ve decided to make a HTML 5 “landing” site for local search terms.

So along comes the Web Design Chesterfield web site.

This website will focus on SEO Chesterfield, Ecommerce Chesterfield and Graphic Design Chesterfield.

The idea is to really see the difference between using HTML 5 and HTML 4 for SEO Purposes.

From new structure of HTML 5, search engines should be able to take more note on what area of a website is what.

For example, a companies address is wrapped in the <address> tag, the Navigation is wrapped in <nav> and so on.

Anyway, stay tuned for the results of the little test experiment with HTML 5

Today I logged in to my blog and accidentally clicked the “Update” button, it did it’s jazz and I just left the page.

I was then prompted by this error:

Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute

After waiting 5 minutes and realising that it wasn’t going back up I remote FTP’d to the folder and found a .maintenance file.

The best way to fix wordpress after this error is to just delete the file: .maintenance

After that, visit your blog again – It’ll tell you that you’re required to update your WordPress Database, click “Do it now!” and off you go – back online and ready to roll!

“An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.” is a common issue, when searching for a plugin or even installing a plugin, this is how you fix it!

1. Login to your FTP server
2. Go to wp-includes and edit class-http.php
3. Find: ‘timeout’ => apply_filters( ‘http_request_timeout’, 5),
4. Change the value “5” to “30”, the value is actually is the number of seconds before the server times out.
5. It should be this: ‘timeout’ => apply_filters( ‘http_request_timeout’, 30),

And that’s it! Your An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request. error should no go away!

This error is usually caused by high load on the WordPress servers or when they’re having technical difficulties.

It’s rather terrible that the web seemingly has no SECURE input field, by this I mean where the fields contents are not remembered by any browser.

An idea:
<input type="secure">

And please, no retard browser specific calls.

PayPal for example, I only have to put my card details in again whenever I clear my internet history, what happens then if I was on a public PC and didn’t clear my history? Joe Bloggs could come along and buy something via my PayPal account.

Less than ideal isn’t it?

Framework 2.0 – 2.0.0.2 (Beta 2) is complete.

Changelog:

• Improved Look of Tables.
• Rounded Corners + Ability to Enable or Disable (Work on all browsers and IE6+).
• Removed IE6 Support (Flogging a dead horse and time sink).
• Tweaked General CSS.
• Validated HTML for WordPress’s Sidebar Search Widget (functions.php re-writes the code).
• Replaced the standard WordPress “W” Logo on the top-right of the wordpress admin area with a changeable logo, found in functions/images/logo.png.

Roadmap:

• Homepage Sidebar Toggle.
• Fix Footer “Company Name” so that you can have a Blog Title of “A really long cool story” and in the Copyright have “Your Company”.
• Logo Position Toggle (Left or Right).
• Custom Logo URL (Removed but will add again).
• Improve the “Customised” WordPress Admin backend changes.
• Improve functions and reduce code bloat.
• Add an option to choose jQuery version from Google Code (ie if you need to downgrade or upgrade the version of jQuery then you can do).
• Package Framework 2.0 for Sale.
• Have atleast 2 different types of post layout on the Blog Page (index page).
• Have category exclusions on the Blog Page (index page).
• Include 2 – 3 different colour versions as default.
• Tweak the Twitter Footer widget.

Got any Feedback or Recommendations for Framework?  – Simple Post a comment

As standard the wordpress sidebar widget does NOT validate as HTML – this is because WordPress gives it a role for Accessibilty!

However if you have a client that demands HTML Validity – or you just prefer it then you can very simply edit the Core WordPress Files – However this will be changed on a wordpress update.

So we make our functions.php to re-write the role="search" out of the.

So what we do is we include a function to your themes functions.php

// Makes the WordPress Sidebar Search HTML Valid
function valid_search_form ($form) {
return str_replace('role="search" ', '', $form);
}
add_filter('get_search_form', 'valid_search_form');

That’s it!