manufacturers meta-tags(keywords and title and description)

[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]

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.

[faze3]

Just a query about the readme file instructions.
Number 8 shows the following instruction for copying the file:
/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/meta_tags_manufacturers.php
yet the files supplied are:
includes/extra_datafiles/meta_tags_manufacturers.php

Could you tell me which is correct?
Thanks.

Edit: Also noticed that after the admin files were added and I logged into the admin, no extra database tables have been generated.

[lat9]

Just a query about the readme file instructions.
Number 8 shows the following instruction for copying the file:
/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/meta_tags_manufacturers.php
yet the files supplied are:
includes/extra_datafiles/meta_tags_manufacturers.php

Could you tell me which is correct?
Thanks.

Edit: Also noticed that after the admin files were added and I logged into the admin, no extra database tables have been generated.

Thank you for actually reading the readme! My apologies for the incorrect instructions; step 8 should show the copying of the file in /includes/extra_datafiles (I'll get that readme updated).

Make sure that you've uploaded the file /YOUR_ADMIN/includes/functions/extra_functions/functions_metatag_manufacturers.php; that's where the database table is added if it doesn't already exist.

[faze3]

So, just to confirm:
I should be logged out of the site admin to start.
Copy the 5 admin files (well 4 for me as there is no Spanish on mine - Russian instead!)
Login to admin which should create the database entry
Add 2 store-side files

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I did but I'll give it another go.

Using ZC 1.5.4 with the M-o-z-e-n theme (not sure if that makes any difference). I noticed from an earlier post that someone was having problems with SEO urls. I have Ceon Uri-mapping running if that's likel;y to affect anything.

[faze3]

OK, tried again. All files copied across but I'm not getting the extra details added to the database. There are no errors showing on the site and there is no change to the look of the manufacturers page in admin.

[lat9]

No debug-logs in your /logs folder? The symptoms that you're describing make no sense to me.

[this side up]

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.

Hello, I have the same issue with the missing meta info between the tags. I'm not able to find the problem. I used to have this seo module but have uninstalled it a while back. Everything installed ok, no problems zen v1.5.1. Any ideas on where should look in the core or overide files to see if possibly some other mod is to blame? Thank you

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
	<head>
	<title></title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
	<meta name="description" content="" />