Providing your customers with [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_URL]friendly URLs[/url] is considered [url=http://moz.com/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls]best practice[/url] by SEO experts.
This allows you to configure search engine (and human) friendly URLs for the various informational, cart and account pages of OpenCart, providing you with an edge over your competitors.
For example you could configure the contact page so that:-
[color=black]http://www.example.com/route=information/contact[/color]
becomes:-
[color=black]http://www.example.com/contact[/color]
or maybe:-
[color=black]http://www.example.com/contact-us[/color]
The latter two are far easier to remember than the original and look much more professional on printed documents and business cards.
A demo is available [url=http://demo.inmuto.co.uk]here[/url]. Username and password for the administrator's console is 'admin'. For the store front; the username is 'demo@example.com' and the password is 'demo'. The admin page is at System -> SEO Keywords.
This extension will work in conjunction with the [url=http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=12826]iNmuto SEO Redirect[/url] extension.
To save on your typing, the following 27 pages are already listed for you while other custom routes (e.g. from third party extensions) can easily be added :-
account, address, affiliate, brand, cart, checkout, contact, download, edit, history, home, login, logout, new address, newsletter, forgotten, password, register, return (new), returns, reward, search, site-map, special, transaction, voucher, wish-list.
All you need to do is enter your chosen friendly keyword ('contact' or 'contact-us' in the example above) for any or all of the above pages and OpenCart will automatically use the friendly URLs. For custom routes, you will need to add the route (the part of the URL after 'route=') as well as the keyword. This makes the extension extremely flexible and future proof.
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