SEO Friendly Links - 'Next' and 'Previous' Button Scripts

[webprocc]

As a new user of Sebenza's Ultimate SEO Links, I can say we're pleased with the new "plain English" URLs the module creates.

In addition to the obvious SEO benefit, our client's traffic logging stats are also much more useful, providing actual distinctions in their Miva pages whereas previously all pages appeared only as "merchant2/merchant.mvc".

QUESTION:
Two areas I would like to modify for tracking purposes are the pages accessed via the Search function, and also the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons located at the top of my client's Product and Product Category pages.

Any thoughts?
The client's store is:
http://store.blumerandstanton.com

Thanks in advance,
Roger Stanton

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: SEO Friendly Links - 'Next' and 'Previous' Button Scripts

Next/Prev Button URLS:

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/&mvt:nextproduct:code;-p-&mvt:nextproduct:ctgy.html">

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/&mvt:prevproduct:code;-p-&mvt:prevproduct:ctgy.html">

Search Results Layout: (Image and Product Title URLS)

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/&mvta:product:code;-p-&mvta:global:Category_Code;.html">

or

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/&mvta:product:code;.html">

Breadcrumb Navigation Links:

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/&mvt:crumb:code;.html">

[webprocc]

Re: SEO Friendly Links - 'Next' and 'Previous' Button Scripts

Hey Dan,

Thanks for the code. That's EXACTLY what I was looking for. It works, too, for the Breadcrumb Navigation Links and for the Search Results Layout, although I have to drop the category code because it wouldn't display for some reason.

The Previous and Next codes are causing a disruption with the routine's If/Else statements. When I use the code you submitted, I start getting a problem with no closing statement for the If statements, etc., etc. When you get a minute, does it appear we have some malformed code in our Previous / Next routine? Here's the full routine:

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:prevproduct OR l.settings:nextproduct">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="275px">
<tbody>
<tr><td align="left" valign="top" width="125px">
<mvt:if expr="l.settings:prevproduct">
<a href="/&mvt:prevproduct:code;-p-&mvt:prevproduct:ctgy.html"><img src="/merchant2/graphics/00000001/button-previous-3.jpg" alt="Previous Product"; border="0" width="119" height="25"></a>
</mvt:if>
</td><td align="right" valign="top" width="125px">
<mvt:if expr="l.settings:nextproduct">
<a href="&mvt:global:sessionurl;Screen=PROD&Product_Code=&mvt:nextproduct:code;&Category_Code=&mvt:nextproduct:ctgy;"><img src="/merchant2/graphics/00000001/button-next-3.jpg" alt="Next Product"; border="0" width="119" height="25"></a>
</mvt:if>
</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</mvt:if>

Again, this is for the Previous and Next buttons located on the client's Product pages at http://store.blumerandstanton.com

Thanks for your earlier reply and any other thoughts,
Roger

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: SEO Friendly Links - 'Next' and 'Previous' Button Scripts

This entity is missing the ending semi-colon. That was my bad, sorry about that. Wrote that response on the fly.

&mvt:prevproduct:ctgy

[webprocc]

Re: SEO Friendly Links - 'Next' and 'Previous' Button Scripts

Dan,

YOUR bad? I should have been adept enough to have caught that... thanks for the guidance. We got the site running on all 8 now... Thank you!

Regards,
Roger