♥toyicebear 206 Posted November 24, 2007 So once I have added this contribution to my site, what do I need to do to generate traffic to my site? Will this contribution help my site show up in search engines like yahoo, google etc (provided I put useful descriptions and keywords). Do I have to sign up for any advertising accounts? Please excuse my ignorance, just trying to learn. I have a site but there is no way for people to know about it except through word of mouth. Also how do I check source code when a website it loaded into my browser? It will help some, but is not enough by itself, you will need to read up on search engine placement info. You can check the source code by choosing view source under the view tab in your browser. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
m4verick 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Awesome! Work like rock with my 2.2 RC1 Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 28, 2007 (edited) I installed this contrib. When I go to http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/ and submit my site, http://www.coldnosegifts.com/ the only thing that show up in "keywords & META tags" is my business name. I did the easy install and changed english.php and then the even the company name disappeared. How do I edit the keywords & description in my main shop page? Any ideas? Wally Edited November 28, 2007 by wallygreen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted November 28, 2007 Using version 1.4 and following the install instructions...you can add the front page meta info in your shops language file.... Meta info for products, categories and manufactureres are generated automatically. The install instructions is very easy to follow...... Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gotit 0 Posted December 13, 2007 It worked for me...... it really was easy. I spend 3 days trying to use the other methods but they didn't work for me. Now I want to go one step further, How can I add some tags to go along with the, for example, "product_name" I want to add a couple of keywords to show on the page title beside the product name Thanks, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted December 13, 2007 (edited) It worked for me...... it really was easy. I spend 3 days trying to use the other methods but they didn't work for me.Now I want to go one step further, How can I add some tags to go along with the, for example, "product_name" I want to add a couple of keywords to show on the page title beside the product name Thanks, Its possible... i will not include it in the mod though ... As you yourself have expirienced it is very easy to install compared to other meta mods and i do not want to complicate just that.... But if you want to give it a try, then it can be easily done by modifying this file: includes/easy_meta_tags.php ATT: Make a backup before starting to mess around..... Edited December 13, 2007 by toyicebear Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grodt 0 Posted December 18, 2007 Its possible... i will not include it in the mod though ... As you yourself have expirienced it is very easy to install compared to other meta mods and i do not want to complicate just that.... But if you want to give it a try, then it can be easily done by modifying this file: includes/easy_meta_tags.php ATT: Make a backup before starting to mess around..... I have the same question as the above, but i am not sure if I am on the right path. OK when I checked my meta tags I only see the detail in the index.php. Are the rest of the detail supposed to show up on the other pages? i want to add more in other pages other then, shirts, hats, etcs to the rest www.mycountrygear.com? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted December 18, 2007 I have the same question as the above, but i am not sure if I am on the right path. OK when I checked my meta tags I only see the detail in the index.php. Are the rest of the detail supposed to show up on the other pages?i want to add more in other pages other then, shirts, hats, etcs to the rest www.mycountrygear.com? 1. The meta info you add in the language files, ie. for english in includes/languages/english.php , will only show on the front page. 2. All categories, sub categories, manufactureres and product meta tags are generated automatically. That is it...simple and easy...and correct seo wise.. But if you want to add some general keywords to all pages it can be done by some manual modifications as mentioned in the post above... BUT be aware if you use extra general keywords added to all pages you might actually hurt your ranking since a keyword/meta tag should also always be on the visible page text on the page its for. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tokarkka 0 Posted December 20, 2007 First, thanks for this GREAT mod! First working STS4 meta tags solution! Installing was really easy and simple! Thanks! But :) I would like to have category names to title as well the product name, so could somebody help me with that? Already tried to modify easy_meta_tags.php, but no working solution yet. Also, I'm going to do some modifications to admin site so you can add/update custom product tags without going to phpmyadmin(or whatever). Or is there a solution for this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted December 20, 2007 First, thanks for this GREAT mod! First working STS4 meta tags solution! Installing was really easy and simple! Thanks! But :) I would like to have category names to title as well the product name, so could somebody help me with that? Already tried to modify easy_meta_tags.php, but no working solution yet. Also, I'm going to do some modifications to admin site so you can add/update custom product tags without going to phpmyadmin(or whatever). Or is there a solution for this? Actually someone made a "modded" version which alowes manually added tags.... They did not include a admin side module though...but it might be a place to start to get what you want. Easy Meta Tags - CUSTOM Product Tags for STS v4 ATT: That mod and any further mods done on that basis will not be supported by me in this tread..... This tread is only support for the original: Easy Meta Tags Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nathali 1 Posted December 23, 2007 Hi, Could someone advise please?? I installed Easy Meta Tags 1.4. I checked the source code on my index page and in product_info page and the meta tags appears very good. The thing is that I read that it is not enough and I need to add Meta tags for the robots and some more important commands for the search engines.. Could someone advise me please what to do?? Is there a meta tag generator which I enter to it my index page and it create for me the Best Meta Tags according to my page?? Thanks for any advise from you.. Regards, Nathali Best Regards, Nathali Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted December 23, 2007 Hi, Could someone advise please?? I installed Easy Meta Tags 1.4. I checked the source code on my index page and in product_info page and the meta tags appears very good. The thing is that I read that it is not enough and I need to add Meta tags for the robots and some more important commands for the search engines.. Could someone advise me please what to do?? Is there a meta tag generator which I enter to it my index page and it create for me the Best Meta Tags according to my page?? Thanks for any advise from you.. Regards, Nathali Easy Meta Tags add all the necessary meta info, for your front page, category, sub-category and product pages. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DorianJ 0 Posted December 30, 2007 Nice contribution, however I may have found a bug! >_< For example, if I was selling USB Cables and this was my description: 24" USB Cable The meta tag gets cut short because the quotes after the 24 close the content attribute's value and therefore the only keyword assigned to this meta tag is 24. Example: <meta name="keywords" content="24" USB Cable" /> -Dorian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted January 4, 2008 Nice contribution, however I may have found a bug! >_< For example, if I was selling USB Cables and this was my description: 24" USB Cable The meta tag gets cut short because the quotes after the 24 close the content attribute's value and therefore the only keyword assigned to this meta tag is 24. Example: <meta name="keywords" content="24" USB Cable" /> Well you could modify this file: includes/easy_meta_tags.php to strip out " from descriptions and names Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gwynwyffar 0 Posted January 18, 2008 I've installed Easy Meta Tags for STS and it seems to be working properly on the Category/Subcategory/Product pages, but on my Index page it shows <title>DEFAULT_META_TITLE</title> <meta name="description" content="DEFAULT_META_DESCRIPTION" /> <meta name="keywords" content="DEFAULT_META_KEYWORDS" /> Is there somewhere I need to define what the Default Meta Title etc. are? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted January 19, 2008 I've installed Easy Meta Tags for STS and it seems to be working properly on the Category/Subcategory/Product pages, but on my Index page it shows <title>DEFAULT_META_TITLE</title> <meta name="description" content="DEFAULT_META_DESCRIPTION" /> <meta name="keywords" content="DEFAULT_META_KEYWORDS" /> Is there somewhere I need to define what the Default Meta Title etc. are? If you read the complete included readme file included in the package, you will find the answer to that one....It tells you where to add and edit those defines. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gwynwyffar 0 Posted January 21, 2008 If you read the complete included readme file included in the package, you will find the answer to that one....It tells you where to add and edit those defines. Actually... the readme file for the Easy install 1.2-1 does not mention where to edit the default tag definitions but the readme for 1-4 does. I found it, thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted February 7, 2008 Actually... the readme file for the Easy install 1.2-1 does not mention where to edit the default tag definitions but the readme for 1-4 does. I found it, thanks. If you read through the reame and the version changes you will see that the v1.2 series does not have manual editable default meta tags at all..it creates all tags automatically. Due to user request though the later versions v1.4 have that function. The download contains both version v1.2 and the latest version, which one to use is up to you. Read the instructions for the version you choose to use. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamyT 2 Posted February 17, 2008 Hi, is there any way to have this contribution make the page title Product Name : Category Name? I am just not knowledgeable enough at code to work it out without killing the site a bunch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted February 17, 2008 Hi, is there any way to have this contribution make the page title Product Name : Category Name? I am just not knowledgeable enough at code to work it out without killing the site a bunch. Its possible by modifying includes/easy_meta_tags.php Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamyT 2 Posted February 18, 2008 I figured that and I tried but every time the only effect was it completely killing the page. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamyT 2 Posted February 20, 2008 Would it be OK to paste the code and see if anyone on the forums knows how to get it to display the item title and the category title using this mod? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted February 21, 2008 Would it be OK to paste the code and see if anyone on the forums knows how to get it to display the item title and the category title using this mod? Dont post it in this support tread. If you want to post the code please make a new support tread and post it there. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamyT 2 Posted March 1, 2008 I have done so but no one has answered, is there any chance at all that you can take a look? I am really keen to use this contribution, this is the only hold up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♥toyicebear 206 Posted March 8, 2008 (edited) I have done so but no one has answered, is there any chance at all that you can take a look? I am really keen to use this contribution, this is the only hold up. This contribution is made to be an easy and a usable add-on suitable for as many shops as possible so if you want it modded for your particular needs then you should do it yourself or if you can't then hire someone to do it for you. Edited March 8, 2008 by toyicebear Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites