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[Jack_mcs]

You can only use one of the contributions at a time. Some people prefer cDynamic and others Header Tags. Of those two, Header Tags is the most optimized for the search engines (last time I looked) and that really is the whole point. I haven't looked at the others in a while but the last time I did, they were just cut down versions of Header Tags. There is a reson Header Tags is so large and that it gives such strong results. It is really the only choice, in my opinion, of course.

Jack

[dumb_question]

Jack_mcs, on Oct 12 2006, 11:27 PM, said:

You can only use one of the contributions at a time. Some people prefer cDynamic and others Header Tags. Of those two, Header Tags is the most optimized for the search engines (last time I looked) and that really is the whole point. I haven't looked at the others in a while but the last time I did, they were just cut down versions of Header Tags. There is a reson Header Tags is so large and that it gives such strong results. It is really the only choice, in my opinion, of course.

Jack

Jack,
Thanks for quick response.Do I need to uninstall dynamic header tags mode before I install manual header tags contribution.

[tasx]

I installed the header tag controller and it seems to be working fine. I manually updated the files since I had made changes, most were your basics for design posts, and a few others from contributions.

After header tag contoller install, when I try to open "catalog" within the admin section I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CASE in /data/6/0/146/133/472948/user/481882/htdocs/misfit/admin/categories.php on line 1000


line 1000 case 'edit_category':
line 1001 $heading[] = array('text' => '<b>' . TEXT_INFO_HEADING_EDIT_CATEGORY . '</b>');


Everything else seems to be working fine. I looked around and not sure what the problem is. Could not locate any info in forum on this.

By the way your Basics for design posts are wonderful, Great job, Great results, thank you!

[Jack_mcs]

The error means there is a mistake in the admin/categories.php file. You can compare the included one to find the error. You can look in the Header Tags support thread for how to do that.

Jack

[Moonlight]

I have had Header Tags installed for a few months now ... was the 3rd contrib I installed. Yes, it was a long one ... being still very novice at the time, it took me over 2 hours, but I believe I had no errors after the install.

I already had over 300 products loaded, so it was a tad daunting going back through each of those products and filling in the header page title, description, and keywords as I desired. But it was worth it.

I'm not sure if there is a correlation or not, but after doing this, the bots came to my site for indexing faster and more often.

The Header Tags should be standard to the core Osc cart ... just my opinion.

[Jack_mcs]

If you install Header Tags, you will have to remove cDynamic Meta Tags (and vice versa) since they both change the same code and only one can be active. As for which is better, if you read through this thread, you will see arguments for both. I personally think Header Tags provides more SEO benefits than the others but there are others who disagree. By the way, if you are looking for "easy," then try one of the other meta tags contributions. They install very easy but are just scaled down versions of Header Tags, which should tell you something in itself.

Jack

[theantiquestore]

I started another topic (ended up answering my own questions) about the breadcrumb trail and meta tags. here

This works very well for me and I had over 400 pages index with the new meta tags in just a couple days. My sales and hits on this site have increased tremendously!

I also used this info: here to put a 301 header in to signal the search engines to remove the old entry in the index and replace it with the new one.

I've added the Google xml sitemap feed and setup google sitemaps for my site and it is doing its job well.

I've also updated my robots.txt file to exclude the popup image pages and some other osc pages which I didnt want shown in the search index.

Seems to be working very well for my vintage media site and all it took were some code changes.

I just thought anyone searching for all of these soultions could use a place to find them all in one post.

[FWR Media]

theantiquestore, on Nov 14 2006, 05:38 PM, said:

I started another topic (ended up answering my own questions) about the breadcrumb trail and meta tags. here

This works very well for me and I had over 400 pages index with the new meta tags in just a couple days. My sales and hits on this site have increased tremendously!

I also used this info: here to put a 301 header in to signal the search engines to remove the old entry in the index and replace it with the new one.

I've added the Google xml sitemap feed and setup google sitemaps for my site and it is doing its job well.

I've also updated my robots.txt file to exclude the popup image pages and some other osc pages which I didnt want shown in the search index.

Seems to be working very well for my vintage media site and all it took were some code changes.

I just thought anyone searching for all of these soultions could use a place to find them all in one post.

Glad someone appreciates and is using it

[theantiquestore]

Sorry I didnt thank all those who put these contribs and code changes out there! I appreciate all your hard work very much! Without this, those who are newbies like me would be lost!

thunderace!

[Flotec]

I have tried the Basic Meta Tags contribution as I thought this should be perfect for me. Worked fine on the product_info page but when I tried the modifications on the index page everything went wrong. The problem I think is that I have already modified the index page and the header is not more the usual "Lets see what we have here".
I have tried to figure out how to modify the contribution to my site but not succeeded. I have also tried both variants of the contribution but the result was the same.
So my question is really, is there an even more simple solution to get header tags on the index pages? Something that take advantage of the already modified header maybe.

[toyicebear]

Flotec, on Nov 21 2006, 02:35 PM, said:

I have tried the Basic Meta Tags contribution as I thought this should be perfect for me. Worked fine on the product_info page but when I tried the modifications on the index page everything went wrong. The problem I think is that I have already modified the index page and the header is not more the usual "Lets see what we have here".
I have tried to figure out how to modify the contribution to my site but not succeeded. I have also tried both variants of the contribution but the result was the same.
So my question is really, is there an even more simple solution to get header tags on the index pages? Something that take advantage of the already modified header maybe.

for modified shops these 2 are the easiest: cdynamic meta tags or Meta Tag Controller Support

[Flotec]

Thank you for your quick reply. I tested Meta Tag Controller Support. Very simple install but I didn't like the header tags it produces. Just a list of my main categories in both keywords and description. I liked your contribution better.
I suppose I have to figure out how I could simplify your contribution.
One thing I should want to have is the title like this:
"My company name" - "category or product". That should not be to difficult, or? Could someone give me a hint?

[rumi]

Ive recently installed cDynamic v1.4 and Im not sure how to set the following in Step 5. You can see how I set the parameters but Im still not seeing any meta tags in my source. I have STS. Thanks to anyone who can help.
STEP 5 - Configure basic parameters

Set settings which are located in includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php

# USER SETTINGS #
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# If you want to cache the results (reduce server load and boost speed)
$cache_type = 2; # number only, no ' or "
# 0 (zero) = off
# 1 = Use Chemo's osC Advanced Cache Class **REQUIRES v1.1 or higher**
# 2 = Cache to directory ** MUST specify $meta_cache_path **

# If using Cache Class set lifetime of cache:
$expires = '30/days'; # only valid if $cache_type = 1

# only valid if $cache_type = 2
# must have read-write permissions
# specified in admin/includes/reset/meta_tags.php (if you changed it) MUST HAVE READ/WRITE CHMOD to 777
$meta_cache_files_path = DIR_FS_CATALOG.'cache/'; #this should work for most


# Show Model in Title
$show_model_in_title = false; # no ' or "
# true or false

# Show Manufacturer in Title
$show_man_in_title = true; # no ' or "
# true or false

# Enter y=text to be removed from Manufacturers when using them for keywords
# enter in all lower case
$strip_man_array = array('inc.','co.','inc');

# Pages to use HEADING_TITLE for title
# Do not list pages w/ specific meta tags: (index.php, product_info.php, specials.php, products_new.php)
$heading_pages = array('contact_us.php', 'product_reviews.php');

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Define specific meta tags by entering the value between the '':

# For all pages using meta_tags:
define('HEAD_TITLE_TAG_ALL','my text here'); # Title
define('HEAD_DESC_TAG_ALL','text here'); # Description
define('HEAD_KEY_TAG_ALL','text here'); # Keywords

# For default index page (no products or categories)
define('HEAD_TITLE_TAG_INDEX','added text here'); # Title
define('HEAD_DESC_TAG_INDEX','here'); # Description
define('HEAD_KEY_TAG_INDEX','and here'); #

Keywords
?>

[rumi]

theantiquestore, on Nov 14 2006, 05:38 PM, said:

I started another topic (ended up answering my own questions) about the breadcrumb trail and meta tags. here

This works very well for me and I had over 400 pages index with the new meta tags in just a couple days. My sales and hits on this site have increased tremendously!

I also used this info: here to put a 301 header in to signal the search engines to remove the old entry in the index and replace it with the new one.

I've added the Google xml sitemap feed and setup google sitemaps for my site and it is doing its job well.

I've also updated my robots.txt file to exclude the popup image pages and some other osc pages which I didnt want shown in the search index.

Seems to be working very well for my vintage media site and all it took were some code changes.

I just thought anyone searching for all of these soultions could use a place to find them all in one post.

Thank you very much for this post. I have utilized the google xml sitemaps, submitted and verified my site with them, and now have a question regarding the robots text file. Ive been to google but cant locate directions on how to configure this file. I can figure that I need to create one and place it in my root directory but after that Im not sure.
Can you help me?
Thank you

[theantiquestore]

Quote

and now have a question regarding the robots text file. Ive been to google but cant locate directions on how to configure this file. I can figure that I need to create one and place it in my root directory but after that Im not sure.
Can you help me?

Here is my robots.txt file:

# Exclude Files From All Robots:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /catalog/admin
Disallow: /catalog/data
Disallow: /catalog/account.php
Disallow: /catalog/advanced_search.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping.php
Disallow: /catalog/create_account.php
Disallow: /catalog/login.php
Disallow: /catalog/password_forgotten.php
Disallow: /catalog/popup_image.php
Disallow: /catalog/shopping_cart.php
Disallow: /catalog/ask_a_question.php
Disallow: /catalog/cookie_usage.php
Disallow: /catalog/popup_search_help.php 
Disallow: /catalog/imagemagic.php
Disallow: /catalog/product_reviews.php
# End robots.txt file

I believe spiders avoid https pages but I have some in that list anyway. Some of these pages I added because I had seen they were listed in google and I didnt realy want them there and wanted to prevent other search engines showing them too.

I ocassionaly review my search engine listings to see if there are pages listed I dont really want there and add them to the list. I prefer to only have my product and category pages listed but do allow my contact page and so on to be spidered.

Hope this helps... of course you'll have to edit that list to be what you prefer.

[rumi]

theantiquestore, on Jan 27 2007, 07:04 PM, said:

Here is my robots.txt file:

# Exclude Files From All Robots:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /catalog/admin
Disallow: /catalog/data
Disallow: /catalog/account.php
Disallow: /catalog/advanced_search.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping.php
Disallow: /catalog/create_account.php
Disallow: /catalog/login.php
Disallow: /catalog/password_forgotten.php
Disallow: /catalog/popup_image.php
Disallow: /catalog/shopping_cart.php
Disallow: /catalog/ask_a_question.php
Disallow: /catalog/cookie_usage.php
Disallow: /catalog/popup_search_help.php 
Disallow: /catalog/imagemagic.php
Disallow: /catalog/product_reviews.php
# End robots.txt file

I believe spiders avoid https pages but I have some in that list anyway. Some of these pages I added because I had seen they were listed in google and I didnt realy want them there and wanted to prevent other search engines showing them too.

I ocassionaly review my search engine listings to see if there are pages listed I dont really want there and add them to the list. I prefer to only have my product and category pages listed but do allow my contact page and so on to be spidered.

Hope this helps... of course you'll have to edit that list to be what you prefer.

Thank you. So, I'll create a txt page,place it in my root directory and then add pages I dont want indexed.
I looked at your site; very nice.

[c-m]

I have just installed cDynamic tags, now I read Header Tags might be better.

Oh, the install went fine and seems to be working, but now I have a random < at the top centre of my pages.

any ideas?

you can see it here

[toyicebear]

c-m, on Feb 12 2007, 08:01 PM, said:

I have just installed cDynamic tags, now I read Header Tags might be better.

Oh, the install went fine and seems to be working, but now I have a random < at the top centre of my pages.

any ideas?

you can see it here

You have to check your code, you probably have an open bracked in the code you pasted in

[BuckNrut]

toyicebear, on Feb 12 2007, 07:09 PM, said:

You have to check your code, you probably have an open bracked in the code you pasted in

I have just ran into the same problem. a random > is at the top of every page I replaced

<title><?php echo TITLE; ?></title>

with

<?php 
# cDynamic Meta Tags
/*<title><?php echo TITLE; ?>*/
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'meta_tags.php');
#
?>

is it possible that the contrib may have a open bracket in one of the files?

The contrib I installed is cDynamic_Meta_Tags v1.6

My site is Site

Please let me know if someone finds the fix

Thanks

[toyicebear]

BuckNrut, on Feb 19 2007, 05:35 PM, said:

I have just ran into the same problem. a random > is at the top of every page I replaced

in one of the files?

The contrib I installed is cDynamic_Meta_Tags v1.6



Thanks

I had a look and you seem to have fixed it yourself

Please post where you found the open bracket so that other with the same problem can find it easily...

Edited by toyicebear, 20 February 2007, 00:45.