Basic SEO Search Engine Optimization

[rr1024]

1. The shopping cart title or "Site Title" should ONLY be displayed on the main index file, and non product pages. The site title should be removed on ALL other pages when browsing categories.

When a user enters the shopping cart for the first time index.php
Example:


<title>Site Name</title>


When a user clicks on category


<title>Category Name</title>
<metadiscription> Category Discription</metadiscription>


When a user clicks on SubCategory, the upper level Category name should be optional from admin panel


<title>Category Name : SubCategory Name</title>
<metadiscription>SubCategory Discription</metadiscription>


If you are providing mod-rewrite with html file or real html files then the actual name of files would be


Category_Name_SubCategory_Name.html


For the actual products it should be


<title>Product Name</title>
<metadiscription>Product description</metadiscription>


If you are providing mod-rewrite with html or real files for actual products


Category_Name_SubCategory_Name_Product_Name.html


Having the Name of your site or Name of the shopping cart on every page is totally useless, even if the name of your site is a keyword the search engines will see this a keyword spamming and MUST BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS!

Anyway just a thought for improvement....Most likely it would be best to offer the addition of catetory and subcategory names in title tags and file names as an option for the products displays which can be turned on / off individually from the admin panel this adds a quick helpful way to tweek for the search engines you are targeting.

[Fingerstyle]

This is weird! I thought I already tested this and saw that it was working fine. It seems that somewhere between the Beta and RC releases, TWT is automatically adding the shop name to our title tags, which is a big no no. I thought the purpose of giving us the ability to enter our own Meta Tags was so that we could have more control over SEO. We don’t want SunShop to modify our tags. If we want to add our shops name to our Title Tag then that should be up to us. Whatever I enter for the Meta Tags, I expect to see verbatim on the pages source code.

Please correct this - it's really important!!!!

[TWT-Chris]

We are not adding the shop title automatically anywhere. All of the titles are only powered by the meta titles in the general settings and the category settings.

Also I am not sure why the original post was posted here. All of the comments above are already part of 4.0. We don't use mod rewrite though and you have full control over the html generation file names.

[Fingerstyle]

Chris,

Maybe it’s not supposed to be adding the shop name automatically but that appears to be what is happening.

Example:

If you look at the category named “TV & Video” you will see in the admin that the Meta Title is set to “TV & Video” only. But when you view this page on the website/storefront, the Meta Title becomes “Demo SunShop4 Shop - TV & Video”.

It’s doing this for the product pages as well. None of the product pages include “Demo SunShop4 Shop” in the Meta Title field but on the website/storefront it is added at the beginning.

How can we make SunShop use the Meta Tags exactly as we enter them?