SEO Header Tags - RELOADED support?

[tinker74 5]

I had a "?>" at the bottom of general.php.....took it out and the problem went away

[burt 5,612]

The latest version (which you state you have) addon does not have a ?> at the bottom of that file.

Edited January 14, 2014 by burt

[tinker74 5]

when i did winmerge....my version must have had it so i moved it over to the new one

[burt 5,612]

Almost all .php files should have no ?> final end tag. The only ones that need them are those that output HTML (eg, index.php, product_info.php and so on). In the case of osCommerce almost all files inside /includes/ and subfolders do not need the final end ?> tag.

 

Not having a final end ?> tag prevents the type of error you experienced.

Edited January 14, 2014 by burt

[HuffYk 0]

I used very long time header_tags_controller. Now I'm converting my site to 2.3.3.4 from old 2.2. I checked header tags addons and see this one is using new system introduced in 2.3 - header tags modules. It is very easy to install and not to many changes into existing files. Thats why I like it more than controller. However what I miss from controller is "fill tags" functionality. Thats why I started to think about creating default meta tags in case seo fields are empty. For products it is actually done - I just started to use osc_get_mini_description. Same approach I did for categories and manufacturers (just copy&paste existing osc_get_mini_description and osc_split_mini_description and change fields and tables). One think why I write is I had to change all coalesce sql calls. Currently it takes empty string as valid value. I changed it to this:

 

(use nullif functions for all seo fields): this way empty values are converted to NULL

 

here is one example from osc_get_mini_description fnc

 

$product_query = tep_db_query("select coalesce(nullif(products_mini_description,''), nullif(products_seo_description,''), LEFT(products_description, 300)) as products_precis from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " where products_id = '" . (int)$products_id . "' and language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");

[burt 5,612]

I have not yet come across a "null" problem, but when I do I'll make more investigations - thanks for sharing the code.

 

On the other point about pre-filled items, it's best to not do this - the whole point of this addon is to allow/force the shopowner to create proper tags and descriptions manually. Good crafted words in these places are worth their weight in gold, a precis of the products description (for example) would certainly not be worth as much.

[♥joli1811 171]

Hi,

 

Looks like I can confirm a similar problem when adding a new product where the Products Title for SEO: is not filled out using the latest version of reloaded (SEO Header Tags - Reloaded - 2014 01 10)

 

The Products Name: does not appear on product_info.php where by default if the seo title is not filled the product name should appear

 

this query seems to be the problem

 

$product_info_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, COALESCE(pd.products_seo_title, pd.products_name) as products_name, pd.products_description, p.products_model, p.products_quantity, p.products_image, pd.products_url, p.products_price, p.products_tax_class_id, p.products_date_added, p.products_date_available, p.manufacturers_id from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_status = '1' and p.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "' and pd.products_id = p.products_id and pd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");

 

Regards

John

[♥joli1811 171]

Ok getting expected results with this but really not sure what I am doing what do you think ??

 

$product_info_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, COALESCE(NULLIF(pd.products_seo_title,''), pd.products_name) as products_name, pd.products_description, p.products_model, p.products_quantity, p.products_image, pd.products_url, p.products_price, p.products_tax_class_id, p.products_date_added, p.products_date_available, p.manufacturers_id from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_status = '1' and p.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "' and pd.products_id = p.products_id and pd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");

 

Regards

John

[burt 5,612]

Yes, adding the nullif will cure that, but I still have not come across a situation where it's needed (and that's on a number of cient sites across a range of hosts) - how strange.

[♥Tsimi 525]

i was just installing the latest version and realized that the ?> tag at the end is missing inside the

languages/english/

 

index.php

product_reviews_info.php

specials.php

testimonials.php

 

is that on purpose?

Edited January 30, 2014 by Tsimi

[♥Tsimi 525]

please ignore my post above!

 

http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/394978-seo-header-tags-reloaded-support/page__st__20#entry1689653

[burt 5,612]

New fileset (added 2014 02 10): http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8864

 

Introduction of HT modules for Information Pages Unlimited, courtesy of @@joli1811

Addition of NULLIF to all coalesce statements to solve a display problem, chapeau @@HuffYk

[kido2 0]

Hello my main issue is non availablity of SEO Plugin on your website. I need to install any SEO plugin in the website. Can you help me

[burt 5,612]

Download and install: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8864

 

This is the support thread, if you need help after it is installed.

[kido2 0]

Hello Burt i have downloaded the SEO Header Tags Reloaded and now i need to add Alt Tag Optimization my where do i find a plugin

[kido2 0]

OS commerece do not supopor this functionality for alttags in images what do i do ?

[kido2 0]

Is there any 1 who can help me about the Alt Tag Optimization or a plugin for Tags

[burt 5,612]

I have no desire to add the ability for shopowners to destroy their Alt tags in the name of SEO.

 

In other words: alt tags for images should never be used as an SEO strategy, not even as a mini part of it, and I won't help anyone do it.

[kido2 0]

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  i have downloaded the SEO Header Tags Reloaded and now i need to add Alt Tag Optimization where do i find a plugin
  
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  do you know any thing about the Alt tag
  
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  OS commerece do not supopor this functionality
  for alttags in images
  
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  do you know anything about this and where i can find a plugin or some to fix this problem
  
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  i checked everywhere for same
  but no way out to solve it
  

[kido2 0]

is there something else you could recommend using in it place for SEO

[mirageco 1]

i have heavily modified OSC and a install instruction would b good to add

 

i'm having trouble finding what t install.

 

any one can help would be great

 

cheers thanks

[burt 5,612]

If you have a highly modified osCommerce, a set of installation instructions would be useless to you. Read the readme, download a program such as Winmerge and start making code edits in a better way.

[StavrosZ 0]

Hello Burt,

I just finished with a fresh install of your contribution.

I'm not very experienced with OSc. What I need to know is:

Is their a way to bulk update the meta data of the products? I used the Easy Populate contribution to massively update titles, descr, images etc.

But now how could I be productive with the meta tags? If I start editing one by one it's gonna take me ages.

 

THank you

[burt 5,612]

You can do it in phpmyadmin, but that defeats the purpose of creating especially crafted titles and descriptions, no?

[StavrosZ 0]

hello Again.

I noticed that my meta description on page source contains <p> tags. Does anyone know how to get rid of them?