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[teamwhatever]

Hi there,

I don't know if this has been answered before but I'm on v3.26 and on the product_info page at the foot where it says "currently viewing" it displays the category and the product name but has " - - " separating them. It seems as though the headertags seo is expecting to have another bit of text between those two hyphens. I understand HEADER_TAGS_SEPARATOR_DESCRIPTION is the name of the hyphen, but I cannot seem to find where the second redundant hyphen is being created.

It is the

$header_tags_array['title']

variable that is outputting the suspect text.

if (isset($sortOrder['title']))	 $header_tags_array['title'] = ltrim(tep_db_prepare_input(implode(' ' . HEADER_TAGS_SEPARATOR_DESCRIPTION . ' ', $sortOrder['title'])), ' ' . HEADER_TAGS_SEPARATOR_DESCRIPTION);

has some bearing on it?

edited to say thanks in advance!

Edited by teamwhatever, 22 May 2013 - 02:11 AM.

[famaca]

Hi jack,

I use the latest version of header tags SEO working in oscommerce rc2a and I'm having a very common problem which has to be with basic oscommerce functions.  Google webmaster tools is currently showing duplicate title/descriptions in product listing of my categories. I wonder if header tags seo has a way to solve it. Because the only solution I've found is to change to KissMT Dynamic SEO Meta & Canonical Header Tags and I wouldn't like to change.

Thank you

[Jack_mcs]

teamwhatever, on 22 May 2013 - 02:10 AM, said:

Hi there,

I don't know if this has been answered before but I'm on v3.26 and on the product_info page at the foot where it says "currently viewing" it displays the category and the product name but has " - - " separating them. It seems as though the headertags seo is expecting to have another bit of text between those two hyphens. I understand HEADER_TAGS_SEPARATOR_DESCRIPTION is the name of the hyphen, but I cannot seem to find where the second redundant hyphen is being created.

When you see dashes around a space in anything related to this addon, it means there is a missing title somewhere. Maybe you didn't run fill tags or added a new product and somehow didn't fill in the title and tags. You need to look at the product you are on in the admin and see what is missing.

[Jack_mcs]

famaca, on 22 May 2013 - 11:16 AM, said:

Hi jack,

I use the latest version of header tags SEO working in oscommerce rc2a and I'm having a very common problem which has to be with basic oscommerce functions.  Google webmaster tools is currently showing duplicate title/descriptions in product listing of my categories. I wonder if header tags seo has a way to solve it. Because the only solution I've found is to change to KissMT Dynamic SEO Meta & Canonical Header Tags and I wouldn't like to change.

Thank you

It's not a problem. They are just reporting that two pages on the site use the same title and tags, which is fine, though usually not desireable. Just edit the reviews_info file in Page Control and add something to the root boxes, like "review of" (be sure to check that check box) and they will go away. Changing to that url rewriter, or even turning your current one off, won't make any difference at all since this is due to titles and tags.

[famaca]

My problem is referred to the product listing, so I don’t understand what product_rewiews_info has to be with this. In my case when I have more than one page in product listing such as:

/category/subcategory/-c-41_55.html?page=1
/category/subcategory/-c-41_55.html?page=2

They are 2 pages with the same metatags. I think it’s not a big problem, but is a bit annoying to see this in google webmaster tools.

Thank you again.

[Jack_mcs]

I apologize. I didn't read your post well enough. That questions usually refers to the review pages. There's not a solution for the problem you are having and, probably, shouldn't be. The product listing page is for a category and the category doesn't change just because the page number changes so the category description, which you should be using, should be the same for best SEO. You do need to be sure the canonical tag is set in Page Control. But otherwise, google is just saying the titles and tags are the same, which isn't a real problem in this case.