How to get SEO and SEF Urls for your oscommerce shop?

Search Engine Friendly Urls is one of the corner stones of seo optimization, here we will show you different ways and styles of  search engine friendly urls for your oscommerce 2.2 millstone web shop.

Available URL mods for oscommerce ms2.2:

1. Standard

Url format: www.myshop.com/product_info?products_id=1

Indexes well by all the big search engines today.

2. Osc Sef

Url format: www.myshop.com/product_info/products_id/1

Indexes well in all the search engines, but be aware this is in development and may not work on all servers.

3. Seach Engine Friendly URL

Url format: www.myshop.com/my-product-name/

Indexes well in all the search engines, uses catching for less server intensive impact.

Att. This contrib depends upon the original osc sef’s , so test first if those do work on your server.

4. Ultimate SEO URLs V2+

Url format: www.myshop.com/my-product-name-p1.html

Indexes well in all the search engines, uses catching for less server intensive impact.

5. SEF Link Transformer

Url format: www.myshop.com/product1/product_info.html

Indexes well in all the search engines, but is slightly server intensive so works best for shops with under 1000 visitors a day.

Att. Not compatible with gzip enabled.

6. Nimmit Sef’s

Url format: www.myshop.com/my-product-name.html

Indexes well in all the search engines, but is slightly server intensive so works best for shops with under 1000 visitors a day.

Att. Not compatible with gzip enabled.

7. Yasu

Url format: www.myshop.com/my+product+name

Indexes well in all the search engines, but is slightly server intensive so works best for shops with under 1000 visitors a day.

8. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Advanced URLs for osCommerce

This one requires alot of manual modifications of files, but is also very flexibel in reagards to adding extra keywords to your urls.

Url format: www.myshop.com/it-pi-n-my-product-name-pId-1.html

9. Ap URL Rewrite

Url format: www.myshop.com/category-name/product-name/cPath/1/product_info/products_id/1

This modification adds category name and product name to url by using the original osc sef aswell as giving the possibilety of adding a slogan into the url.

Att. This contrib depends upon the original osc sef’s , so test first if those do work on your server.

8. SEO-G

Url format: www.myshop.com/my-product-name.html

Indexes well in all the search engines, is very flexible and easy on system ressources.

9. Ultimate SEO URLs V5+

Url format: www.myshop.com/my-product-name-p1.html

Indexes well in all the search engines, uses catching for less server intensive impact.