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[sembrouille]

Just allow users to change the alt tag, this may give a better seo if this tag is used correctly.

[sembrouille]

Biancoblu, on 17 May 2013 - 08:45 AM, said:

@sembrouille

Thanks, I'll have to try that .....will come back to let you know how it went.

I have some free Sunday, send me a pm (en français )

[14steve14]

I have just been reading about good seo for ecommerce websites and came across this. As a typical store owner and not a designer I have no real idea of what it is all about, but hopefully someone here will

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For e-commerce websites there is one more thing you can do to help your products to perform better. Look into Schema.org and make your website compatible.
Schema is a way of labeling products on your website so that Google can “understand” what each bit of information means. You can label manufacturer, product image, price, description etc…
This is a great opportunity to stand out from the competition, especially since correctly labelled products can have enhanced listings when they do show up in search results. Your products may start showing up with product information shown and even with a thumbnail picture.

Would it be possible to incorperate something in relation to this into the core code.

[burt]

@14steve14 - already done in 2.3.3

[sembrouille]

For google merchant shopping ?!!

[14steve14]

burt, on 17 May 2013 - 10:02 AM, said:

@14steve14 - already done in 2.3.3

Is it really I didnt know that. Thats the trouble with only having a site that is used for testing and doesnt show in the searches.

[toyicebear]

@14steve14

burt, on 17 May 2013 - 10:02 AM, said:

@14steve14 - already done in 2.3.3

That is incorrect, rich snippets are NOT incorporated into 2.3.3

[MrPhil]

toyicebear, on 17 May 2013 - 02:05 PM, said:

@14steve14


That is incorrect, rich snippets are NOT incorporated into 2.3.3

Is it an add-on (not core product)?

[14steve14]

I didnt think that I hade seen anything to do with this in the core standard oscommerce files, thats why I mentioned it. At least I am not going mad and missing somethuing that was in front of my face. maybe gary meant that it was already coded and planned in the next release.

[MrPhil]

burt, on 17 May 2013 - 08:47 AM, said:

In any case, using alt tags for SEO is plainly wrong.  It is worse (in my opinion) than keyword stuffing as not only is one adding rubbishy SEO'd text, but is also taking away accessibility from those who need it most.  

The proper usage of "alt" attributes (not "tags") is to provide a text replacement for non-trivial graphics* for those who cannot see the images. This would include blind users with a screen reader, users with graphics turned off for speed (e.g., Lynx browser), and search engine spiders. "alt" text should be a short, concise entry appropriately describing the graphic (e.g., an American flag could have alt="Made in USA" or alt="US flag" or, for "this is what the US flag looks like:", alt="7 red and 6 white horizontal stripes, with a rectangular blue field in the upper left and one 5-point star for each of the 50 states"). If you want to see some text pop up ("tooltip") when you hover over the image (or any particular element), you should add a "title" attribute. Note that older versions of IE will use "alt" text as a tooltip if no "title" is provided (this is an error). Search engine spiders will read and process both alt and title attributes, so be truthful in your text selection and don't use it to do "black hat" keyword stuffing. I don't know how much weight is given to alt and title text compared to in-line text, or if the penalties for keyword stuffing are different.

* "trivial" graphics with alt="" would include fancy list bullets, fancy dividers, rounded box corners, shadow effects, etc. that are <img>s. Anything else should have an "alt" descriptive text.

[burt]

@MrPhil
exactly.  Using Alt tags for SEoptimisation is plainly incorrect.

@14steve14
@toyicebear
I should have been more clear:
https://github.com/haraldpdl/oscommerce2/blob/master/catalog/product_info.php

[toyicebear]

burt, on 17 May 2013 - 03:58 PM, said:

@MrPhil
exactly.  Using Alt tags for SEoptimisation is plainly incorrect.

@14steve14
@toyicebear
I should have been more clear:
https://github.com/haraldpdl/oscommerce2/blob/master/catalog/product_info.php

Thats not included in 2.3.3 , so i guess its meant for 2.3.4

Edited by toyicebear, 17 May 2013 - 10:29 PM.