manufacturers meta-tags(keywords and title and description)

[lat9]

Oops! I'll get that change queued. Thanks for the report.

[toyseller]

I am still having a problem but it could be something else causing it. Or me !

The "admin" for this add-on works great - Ive filled the meta title, keywords and description within the panel
and the data for this has translated onto the new database table meta_tags_manufacturers_description.

But the source code remains the same ... no extra statements or use of the data.

And Im not sure if normally zen cart would put the manufacturers name between the title tags, but this isnt filled either - it just shows
<title></title>.

for example http://www.tidytoys.co.uk/ark-toys-13 then right click "view page source"

[lat9]

I've just submitted v2.1.1 to the plugins for review to correct the constant definition.

[lat9]

I am still having a problem but it could be something else causing it. Or me !

The "admin" for this add-on works great - Ive filled the meta title, keywords and description within the panel
and the data for this has translated onto the new database table meta_tags_manufacturers_description.

But the source code remains the same ... no extra statements or use of the data.

And Im not sure if normally zen cart would put the manufacturers name between the title tags, but this isnt filled either - it just shows
<title></title>.

for example http://www.tidytoys.co.uk/ark-toys-13 then right click "view page source"

Does the issue remain if you temporarily change to the default "Classic Green" template?

[toyseller]

Yes, changing the template over does give the same source code.

<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart&reg; Team and others" />
<meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart&reg;, http://www.zen-cart.com eCommerce" /> 

[toyseller]

My original issue started because my Google Webmasters has issue with the manufacturers pages not having any value contained between the <title></title> tags.

I thought that zen cart would work by putting the manufacturer name between the title tags - but Im guessing it would work that way ... but maybe there is a fault in my code.

The urls names for my manufacturers are coming out as www.xxxx.co.uk/index/manufacturers_id/2/ and I dont know if this is zen cart standard naming convention. ie. why /index/ ?

Mixed in with this ... I keep thinking to myself "why doesnt the admin for manufacturers" work exactly the same way as for categories and products, why isnt this built into zen cart as standard to add title,keywords,description and the 3 meta data fields to manufacturer pages.

Then I saw your add-on ... and thought that at least I could add the meta data. And maybe fill the <title></title> by copying what you do for filling the meta title.

Now I dont know what is going on. Is it me, simple seo urls, the template or the add-on :-)

[lat9]

I've just submitted v2.1.1 to the plugins for review to correct the constant definition.

v2.1.1 is now available for download.

[lat9]

My original issue started because my Google Webmasters has issue with the manufacturers pages not having any value contained between the <title></title> tags.

I thought that zen cart would work by putting the manufacturer name between the title tags - but Im guessing it would work that way ... but maybe there is a fault in my code.

The urls names for my manufacturers are coming out as www.xxxx.co.uk/index/manufacturers_id/2/ and I dont know if this is zen cart standard naming convention. ie. why /index/ ?

Mixed in with this ... I keep thinking to myself "why doesnt the admin for manufacturers" work exactly the same way as for categories and products, why isnt this built into zen cart as standard to add title,keywords,description and the 3 meta data fields to manufacturer pages.

Then I saw your add-on ... and thought that at least I could add the meta data. And maybe fill the <title></title> by copying what you do for filling the meta title.

Now I dont know what is going on. Is it me, simple seo urls, the template or the add-on :-)

Since you get the same behavior (empty <title></title>) with the classic template, what happens if you temporarily disable the "Simple SEO URLs" functionality?

[toyseller]

Sorry for taking so long to reply.

(I was in the UK and am now in Turkey).

Yes you are right, if I disable Simple SEO URLs then the meta tags information appears.

Apart from turning Simple SEO URLs off, I assume that there is no way round this.

[lat9]

Sorry for taking so long to reply.

(I was in the UK and am now in Turkey).

Yes you are right, if I disable Simple SEO URLs then the meta tags information appears.

Apart from turning Simple SEO URLs off, I assume that there is no way round this.

The only other thing you could do is to determine what Simple SEO URLs is doing to the title tag (possibly some configuration switch that controls your html_header.php file's operation?) and change the behavior there.