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Hi Morten,

Are you talking about using URL providers (Management Center -> Web and HTTP -> Customized URLs, "Add-ins" under the "Internal links" section).

Or you just use the META URL field of the product (Edit product -> Meta information -> URL)  ?

Could you please elaborate? It would be great if you could provide a set of steps that might help us to reproduce the problem.

-- Pavel

I'm talking about using URL providers (Management Center -> Web and HTTP -> Customized URLs, "Add-ins" under the "Internal links" section).

Have a look at the attached screendump...

If you choose to check "Case insensitive URLs" the new so called seo friendly product url dosent work any longer.
If you uncheck - it works.

What im really confused about is how DW allows uppercase urls? I dont get it!? You can also have url containing special chars - why dosent someon at DW ready this article :

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls

Everything i lowercase + get rid of special chars in urls :)

If my custom choose to have a product called:
"Super @£$€{[]}|~€ÆØÅæøåæø"
the url DW makes is called:
Super-@£$€{[]}-~€ÆØÅæøåæø.aspx
#wtf  - this is far away from a seo-friendly url...


/Morten

Hi Morten

Thanks for your feedback.

I will have a look at the uppercase issue.

Why no special characters in the URL? They are allowed (http://labs.apache.org/webarch/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html) and if the name of the product is a lot of weird characters it makes perfect sense to use it as name, titel and url...

@Nicolai: Yes it makes sense but Im sure that robots understand "å" written as "aa" as well!?

We are having a lot of issues with specials chars in news (from
DW) shared (and then encoded) on facebook, twitter and so on.

Thats why i would avoid em. Maybe I could be an option.

Have a look on the attached screenshot from my iphone. Good or no good?

We could make it an option - but it is not without issues. Will look into it.

You can just write the URL with the ø - the browser will convert it to utf-8 in the transport level. That will work - even on the iPhone.

Sweet...

Actually the URL are written with an "ø" but if you're sharing the URL with other browsers that IE the URL are replaced/encode by the mozilla webkit :

IE:
http://www.dynamicweb.dk/Hjælp-og-Support-28883.aspx

FF, Chrome, Safari:
http://www.dynamicweb.dk/Hj%C3%A6lp-og-Support-28883.aspx

Well - because you have old browsers... Or weird settings.
:)
See dump with Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

Try to copy the urls to notepad!?

Yes...

But - you can just replace the crap with characters. Or use the fields in Dynamicweb to overwrite the auto URL.

In terms of SEO - using the real characters is definitely a benefit. But - I'll look into the option of "replace evrything not in a-z and 0-9"

 

Hi Morten

I'll have your issues checked out by QA and file a bug.

Bugs registered:

5922: Product catalog group list navigation broken when using ecom URL addins in combination with case insensitive URLs.

5893: In customized URLS of the types "Page name and ID" and "Page name and ID parameter" spaces are not replaced with an "-".

Hi,

I've run into a couple of other problems with SEO URLs on eCommerce products and groups.

First of all, I have five languages, default language for my web site is LANG1, however, group names from LANG2 are used for links, so my Danish links have Swedish "folder" names.

Another thing, Dynamicweb doesn't seem to be able to parse ProductID's containing spaces. Thus, the link to my product ID = KSI 160 95-02 is simply parsed as Produkter/Kylskåp.aspx?ProductID=KSI 160 95-02 (note the Swedish caption) rather than Produkter/Køleskabe/KSI 160 95-02.aspx.

Using a PRODXX product id works fine, however, this solution is integrated with AX, and we BOM lists from CSV based on the AX ID, so converting to Dynamicweb eCommerce IDs is not an option.

Could you fix this as well?

BR.
Lars

Yes - that can be fixed.

Will look into it.

Excellent, let me know, if you need me to do some testing, or if you need files/database for the solution on which I'm experiencing problems. I'd be happy to chip in.

BR.
Lars

 Today, i recieved a notice from a paying customer, who wants to use the Facebook like button on products in their web-shops.

I encode the url of the each product before sending it to Facebook API.

But because DW does not follow international standards on replacing special characters, the Like link postes in to the users Facebook page doesn't work from ANY version of Internet Explorer browser.

Webkit posts this:
http://www.danbomoebler.dk/produkter/b%C3%B8rn-og-ungdom.aspx?ProductID=PROD1788&show=B%C3%B8rn%20og%20ungdom&p=Aeroplane%20rundt%20bord&by=Danbo

IE7+8+9 posts this to Facebook: