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 === Updates requiring .htaccess Changes === === Updates requiring .htaccess Changes ===
  
-So far, there are 2 updates that require changes to the .htaccess file in order to take advantage of new features.+So far, there are 3 updates that require changes to the .htaccess file in order to take advantage of new features.
  
-== SEO 1.0.* > 2.0.* ==+<tip c n>**Note:**  We now recommend that you re-generate the .htaccess file any time the SEO addon needs to be updated.  The versions listed below are the "main" versions that changes to the .htaccess file were required, but it does not list every single version that requires the .htaccess to be updated.  Also if any other addons "use" SEO URL's, such as the Storefront addon, the .htaccess may need to be updated for changes from those addons.  The best practice is any time the SEO addon is updated, go ahead and re-generate the .htaccess contents.</tip> 
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 +== SEO 2.0.0 ==
  
 When you update from SEO 1.0.0 (used for Geo 3.1.9 and earlier versions) to SEO 2.0.0 or higher:  The first time you attempt to access the SEO settings, it will inform you that proceeding will require changes to your .htaccess and will make it start using the newer format for URL's.  Before that, it will still re-write URL's in the same way that was done in SEO 1.0 so that your existing URL's will not suddenly "break" when you update. When you update from SEO 1.0.0 (used for Geo 3.1.9 and earlier versions) to SEO 2.0.0 or higher:  The first time you attempt to access the SEO settings, it will inform you that proceeding will require changes to your .htaccess and will make it start using the newer format for URL's.  Before that, it will still re-write URL's in the same way that was done in SEO 1.0 so that your existing URL's will not suddenly "break" when you update.
  
-== SEO 2.0.* > 2.1.* ==+== SEO 2.1.0 ==
  
 In SEO version 2.0.*, the titles that are used in the URL (such as the Category title or listing title) used underscores "_" for the word separator.  Starting in SEO 2.1.0 and up, it now uses dashes "-" to separate words, since this is [[http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76329|Google's recommended word separator]]((And who are we to argue with Google?)). In SEO version 2.0.*, the titles that are used in the URL (such as the Category title or listing title) used underscores "_" for the word separator.  Starting in SEO 2.1.0 and up, it now uses dashes "-" to separate words, since this is [[http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76329|Google's recommended word separator]]((And who are we to argue with Google?)).
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   "-" instead.    "-" instead. 
  
 +== SEO 2.3.0 ==
 +
 +The title in the URL can now have more than just alpha-numeric characters, such as punctuation and similar.  The change was actually done to allow it to work with languages that use non-Latin characters, such as Arabic.  These changes however, require that the .htaccess file is re-generated.
 ==== Re-Write URLs ==== ==== Re-Write URLs ====
  
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 Note: Changing any settings in this section **does not** require re-generating the .htaccess file. Note: Changing any settings in this section **does not** require re-generating the .htaccess file.
  
-<tip c w>**Warning:** The SEO addon currently only recognizes the normal A-Z alphabet characters (including accented characters if the convert accents setting is turned on), and will not work with a language that uses a totally different "alphabet" such as Arabic or Bulgarian.  For such sites, you will need to un-check the "title" part of the URL so that titles are not used in the URL, or it may not work correctly.</tip> 
  
 ==== Convert Accents ==== ==== Convert Accents ====
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 **Setting Enabled:**\\ **Setting Enabled:**\\
-<nowiki>www.example.com</nowiki>/categorias/83/cuestiones-importantes/anuncios/423/D**o**nde-est**a**-el-ba**n**o.html+<nowiki>www.example.com</nowiki>/categorias/83/cuestiones-importantes/anuncios/423/¿D**o**nde-est**a**-el-ba**n**o.html
  
 **Setting Disabled:**\\ **Setting Disabled:**\\
-<nowiki>www.example.com/categorias/83/cuestiones-importantes/anuncios/423/Dnde-est-el-bao.html</nowiki>+<nowiki>www.example.com</nowiki>/categorias/83/cuestiones-importantes/anuncios/423/¿D**ó**nde-est**á**-el-ba**ñ**o.html
  
 <tip c w>Only turn this setting on if you need it!  It will cause the software to have to do a lot of extra work if you turn this on when it is not needed.</tip> <tip c w>Only turn this setting on if you need it!  It will cause the software to have to do a lot of extra work if you turn this on when it is not needed.</tip>
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 ===== Extra Page Urls ===== ===== Extra Page Urls =====
  
-The extra pages url's within our system are not automatically rewritten by the SEO addon.  We created the extra page feature to allow clients to use the same system of page creation within a few extra "supporting" pages for their classifieds and auction sites.  We have no idea how these pages will be used for in the final site so can't "propose" or "lock" a url to any of them.  While we make use of a few extra pages for our default design we have no idea of their final purpose.  We can only suggest tutorials on the Internet to create rewrite rules in the htaccess file.  But for example if you wanted to rewrite the page of the default design we use as an expample of a pricing structure to point to "pricing.html" you would use a rewrite rule like this within your .htaccess file: +This support wiki article has been [[startup_tutorial_and_checklist:usability_configuration:seo:seo_rewrite_extra_pages|moved here]]
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-  RewriteRule ^pricing\.html$ index.php?a=28&b=143 [L] +
- +
-Whenever someone used the link like: +
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-  http://www.yoursite.com/pricing.html +
- +
-They would be redirected to the following url within the system (though they wouldn't see that in the address bar of their browser): +
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-  http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?a=28&b=143 +
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-Creating the rewrite does not rewrite the link within the default design.  You would then need to search through all of the page templates, html modules or site text where the "http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?a=28&b=143" link url would be and replace it with "http://www.yoursite.com/pricing.html".+
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