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Since CC 3.x is now an obsolete product, I have decided to release the seo mod as is without ANY support whatsoever for free. No one is allowed to distribute the mod to the public from any other server. If you need any support with the SEO mod I suggest you head over to cubecartforums.org and ask in the forums. Note this mod is only for CC 3.x and not CC 4.x! This mod will no longer be supported, however any CC3.x should not have a problem with this as CC3.x is no longer being developed either.

Download the CC3.x seo mod

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Visit Funky Mobile Games for links to where you can buy this game and also further details.

Search Engine Friendly URL with PHP session killer and Meta tags Mod

otherwise known as the SEO Mod!

Get ranked better with search engines!

License:

You may use this mod on your cube cart without purchasing a license if you leave the advertisement link on the footer intact. Removing the link will violate the license. If you wish for the link to be removed you must purchase a license. The license purchased is for cube cart(s) running on a SINGLE domain name.

NOTE!! This license for the mod is in NO WAY affiliated with cube cart or Devellion Ltd at all!!!

NOTE!! Please install the mod first to make sure it is working and you are happy with it BEFORE you decide to buy a license OR request installation with your SEO license. Licenses are NON refundable!!!

NOTE!! If you have previously bought a license and upgraded to a later version of the mod, you must get it reissued DO NOT reuse your old licensed file it will be buggy!!

Purchase a license

The SEO Mod License is US$10. To purchase a license for the mod, please go to the SEO purchase page.

Already bought a license? Reissue it.

Please visit the SEO license panel to get your SEO mod license reissued if you have lost it or are upgrading your store. If you get a “domain name not licensed” message and you have bought a license then contact me with the domain name. You must reissue your license for the correct version of the SEO mod you have installed in your store otherwise it may be buggy.

Require installation of the mod?

I am now available again for seo mod installations.

If you are having trouble installing the mod or require me to install the SEO mod, I can help. Please follow the steps to request installation of the mod.

• Please first purchase a mod license from above. (required!)
• Transfer US$25 to my paypal account rukshanf@optushome.com.au (please DO NOT use this to purchase a license, use the system above)
• Contact me via email at rukshanf@optushome.com.au with the following details: FTP server details, Cubecart URL, Cubecart admin details. The information you provide will be handled professionally and in the strictest manner. Once the job is complete, the details will be discarded.

Where is the Mod?

Download the mods from here:

• SEO Mod Ver 4.3 for Cubecart 3.0.6
• SEO Mod Ver 5.0 for Cubecart 3.0.7-pl1
• SEO Mod Ver 5.1 for Cubecart 3.0.8
• SEO Mod Ver 5.2 for Cubecart 3.0.9
• SEO Mod Ver 5.3 for Cubecart 3.0.10
• SEO Mod Ver 5.4 for Cubecart 3.0.11
• SEO Mod Ver 5.5 for Cubecart 3.0.12
• SEO Mod Ver 5.6 for Cubecart 3.0.13
• SEO Mod Ver 5.7 for Cubecart 3.0.14
• SEO Mod Ver 6.0 for Cubecart 3.0.15
• SEO Mod Ver 6.1 for Cubecart 3.0.16
• SEO Mod Ver 6.2 for Cubecart 3.0.17
• SEO Mod Ver 6.3 for Cubecart 3.0.18
• SEO Mod Ver 6.4 for Cubecart 3.0.19
• SEO Mod Ver 6.5 for Cubecart 3.0.20

So What Does this Mod Do?

The whole purpose of this mod is to make your cube cart more search engine friendly. It is also a tool that webmasters can use to optimize their stores for their keywords so that they can achieve better rankings for their keywords.

I have heard many people saying they get good rankings for their title of their website. This is usually easily achieved as there will probably not be many website owners targeting those keywords. What is more useful is to instead target keywords which you expect your customers to find you by. Take for instance if you run a kitchen store called “eKitchen”. Chances are you will hit top rankings for the keywords “eKitchen”. But who will ever do a search for that in google? Only your previous visitors or people specifically looking for your website. You are rather better of targeting keywords such as “stainless steel sinks”, “kitchen carcases”… you get the idea. These are keywords that customers will most likely search for and if your website is up there in the rankings for these keywords, you just might get lucky and get a sale. But even having the visitor land on your store page is a bonus, they may find something that interests them and bookmark the page or remember your store for future purchases.

This mod will change the URLs in cube cart from http://www.domain.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=233 to a search engine friendly URL which contains your product name such as http://www.domain.com/sinks/stainless-steel-sinks/prod_34.html. Note the product name is embedded in the URL, this will increase your rankings for those keywords.

The mod will stop PHP sessions being generated if the user agent of the visitor is detected to be a search engine. What this means in a nutshell is that without this mod the search engines will see your URLs as http://www.domain.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=34&ccSID=9cfa6c580d7c93b1f4ca204d0. Not very nice is it? The long string after ccSID is what cubecart uses to manage its sessions. You don’t typically see it while browsing apart from the first page because in our browsers it is generally stored as a cookie. Search engines don’t use cookies and so every URL they spider within our stores gets this nasty looking string. What is worse is that this string changes each time the search engine spiders our website and so we can have many different URLs all pointing to the same page. It is not good as some search engines penalize websites for this as there are many addresses for the same page with content that is identical.

This mod includes a robots.txt file. This file lists URLs that search engines must not index. The kind of URLs we do not want indexed are those tell a friend pages. If you browse to the tell a friend pages in your store you will soon notice that the content of this page is identical and we have many of them, infact one tell a friend page per product. We can get penalized for this for the same reason as above, that is having many URLs pointing to the same page with content that is identical. This file also lists other pages we do not want indexed such as the registration pages.

The mod allows webmasters to customize each page in their store with meta title, keywords and descriptions. This makes it easier to optimize your pages for your keywords, boosting up your rankings. Even though there is talk that big search engines no longer use metas for ranking, there are still other search engines that do. Also the meta description is used by some search engines when presenting the search results and act as a summary for your page. Hence customizing this with some text is that will entice your customers to click on the link in the search results is important.

The other newest addition to this mod, is the ability to add your own custom targeted keywords to the URL of your products, sitedocs and categories. With all these features, this makes this mod a must have for your store!

This mod can be controlled fully from the administration panel of your cube cart. The SEO mod can be enabled/disabled and all its features controlled from the admin panel once the mod has been installed. This mod should work on most servers, if you cannot get it to work on your server, please request installation from me, see above for details.

If you have any comments or testimonials about this mod that you would like to share with other readers, please feel free to submit your comments. However, please send all installation problems and possible bugs to my email address at rukshanf@optushome.com.au.

Contact

Email all enquiries to rukshanf@optushome.com.au

Every now and then, Google uploads high resolution photos to its Google Maps solution. These are typical taken by fly-by planes. Those of you in Australia would have heard of Google’s plane taking aerial shots of Bondi Beach, Sydney. Try it, click on this link to go to Bondi beach and zoom right in using the Satellite view. You will be able to see all the sunbathers and swimmers in detail. These shots were taken on Australia Day, 26th of January.  

This post is about safari on Google maps. So here it is, a link to a list of amazing shots of animals caught on the maps. My favourite is the  ”Large pod of hippos”. To get to the really amazing shots of these animals you must:

1. Make sure you are in Satellite view. 
2. Click on the link of the animal you want to view
3. Move the slider to the highest zoom level, this will give you the highest zoom level you can go using the Google maps interface.

 

But! Did you know, Google does have higher resolutions to a few photos. To get access to these higher resolutions you must:

1. After following the above steps, click on “Link to this page” which can be found on the right hand corner. This will basically update the browser’s URL so that you can get a link direct to the view you currently have.
2. Now edit the URL, increase the “z” parameter to a higher value. I recommend going in steps of 1 until you have finally reached the highest resolution photo. Note that some of the links to the animals support a higher “z” parameter than others, so if you get the “We don’t have imagery for this zoom level” message, decrease the “z” parameter till you get something.

 

Happy Google map safaring!

Mid last year, I bought myself a Mac. At first I had trouble doing the tasks I did on my Windows box. I simply did not have Mac alternatives to the programs I used in Windows.

Now it has been almost a year with my Mac and I have hunted down most of the useful programs to have. I list them here so it may help others converting from a PC.

Word Processor: You can get Microsoft Office for Mac, this is what I use. But if your looking for a free alternative then you can always use Open Office.

HTML Editor: I used Dreamweaver in the Windows box, and now use the Mac version. Dreamweaver is a commercial software.

Graphics Editor: Fireworks has served me well in this area. I am not much of a graphics artist so my work in this area is limited. However there is a version of fireworks for Mac and also the professional graphics package Photoshop has a Mac version. Both Fireworks and Photoshop are commercial softwares.

DVD to DivX: Most people would have used DVD Shrink to do this. Unfortunately, DVD Shrink runs only on Windows. I recently came across a Mac program called HandBrake. This is open source and best of all is just as easy to use as DVD Shrink. It will rip your DVD and encode them to DivX and other formats. It is very powerful and provides a lot of options with a nice clean easy to use interface.

Yahoo Messenger: Luckily Yahoo supports a Mac version of their messenger, so there is no issues here.

MSN Messenger: If you get Microsoft Office, it will come bundled up with MSN Messenger, but a very cut down version. There is no webcam functionality and is missing lots of other features. I use an open source version called aMSN. This does have support for webcams but voice is not supported and won’t be for a while as the open source MSN library it uses does not support voice. There are other messengers such as Aduim, but I have not tried these yet.

If you get completely stuck for an alternative program and feel like you need Windows to complete your task, you can use Parallel Desktops to run Windows on your Mac and then you will have access to all the Windows programs. I sometimes use this as a last resort, however I find myself using this option much less as I discover Mac alternatives to get the job done. The other alternative is to use Boot Camp and run Windows on a seperate partition on your hard drive and then when your Mac boots up, you can decide which OS you wish to run. I personally prefer the Parallel Desktop option as it means you can share files easily between OSX and Windows and not have to keep rebooting your Mac.

I would like to hear from my readers other good alternatives to popular Windows programs.