Meta Help ... Adding new metas?

**maronesty** · 20 Sep 2011, 11:07 PM

I was given a suggestion to make the following changes to my my metas... There were more changes but I found the locations of those metas quite easily.

These ones I have yet to find within my files... The changes here are meant to be for the homepage, I would greatly appreciate it if someone knows what files these metas are found on or if they are not included by default... where should I add them myself. thx

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
<META name="revisit-after" content="15 days">
<META name="robots" content="index, follow">
<META name="Rating" content="General">
<META name="Robots" content="All">
<meta name="CompanyName" content="HomeSpa Saunas" />
<meta name="distribution" content="United States" />
<meta name="copyright" content="2010">

**mprough** · 21 Sep 2011, 03:09 PM

These are all out of date garbage Meta tags. Only language and charset are even used and these are already covered in the following statements already in your Zen Cart

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

~Melanie

**schoolboy** · 21 Sep 2011, 04:33 PM

Yes... Melanie is 100% correct. Whoever is advising you to do this is clearly 10 years out of date.

If they are marketing themselves as "SEO Experts" than my advice is:-

RUN AWAY...

**maronesty** · 21 Sep 2011, 05:27 PM

Well ... He has brought 3 websites of mine to natural top 5 positions for very competitve keywords. So I trust him , however do believe he is not very familiar with zencart, that is why i am making the changes myself.

So you are advising me to not include these metas?

**schoolboy** · 21 Sep 2011, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by maronesty

Well ... He has brought 3 websites of mine to natural top 5 positions for very competitve keywords. So I trust him , however do believe he is not very familiar with zencart, that is why i am making the changes myself.

So you are advising me to not include these metas?

There is no point... They don't do anything.

For example, there is no logic in this one:

<META name="robots" content="index, follow">

Because robots do not use these. They understand noindex and nofollow only...

Additionally, zencart has an automatic noindex and nofollow protocol, designed to discourage indexing of irrelevant content. You don't want to be messing about with this.

If your "SEO guy" is telling you that the "index" and "follow" are "important" for search engines, he is just demonstrating ignorance at the most fundamental level.

Again... there is no useful purpose in adding these tags. They are not used.

If your site is "doing well" on the search engines, it's probably because of:

1. The fact that zencart is designed to construct HTML in the format that SE's like, and demand.

2. That your content is pretty good.

My advice regarding your "SEO guy" remains...

RUN

... before he destroys all the good work that is happening naturally.

**maronesty** · 21 Sep 2011, 05:52 PM

I left some of those out per your recommendation after doing a quick look-up of those specific metas.

However I did include the following, they look very optional... Probably no harm or benefit to them?

My html_header now reads... This look ok to you?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="CompanyName" content="HomeSpa Saunas" />
<meta name="distribution" content="United States" />
<meta name="copyright" content="2010">
<meta name="author" content="Mike Aron" />

--------------------

Also I was wondering about H1/H2 tags for this new site. I read that zencart generates them automatically ... My site only has 4 products and 1 catagory, so i was thinking I might want to set these myself.

I havent found much info on how to change these to read as you would like them to... or whether thats not necessary or recommended. What is your take on this?

**mprough** · 21 Sep 2011, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by maronesty

I left some of those out per your recommendation after doing a quick look-up of those specific metas.

However I did include the following, they look very optional... Probably no harm or benefit to them?

My html_header now reads... This look ok to you?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="CompanyName" content="HomeSpa Saunas" />
<meta name="distribution" content="United States" />
<meta name="copyright" content="2010">
<meta name="author" content="Mike Aron" />

--------------------

Also I was wondering about H1/H2 tags for this new site. I read that zencart generates them automatically ... My site only has 4 products and 1 catagory, so i was thinking I might want to set these myself.

I havent found much info on how to change these to read as you would like them to... or whether thats not necessary or recommended. What is your take on this?

As previously noted

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Already resides in your Zen cart and does not need added.

~Melanie

**schoolboy** · 21 Sep 2011, 05:58 PM

We can only advise you of what NOT to do... If you choose to override core functionality and behaviour, and add rubbish to your site headers, that's up to you.

My final comment:

You should NOT be fooling about with the header section unless you have a GOOD understanding of it, and what your alterations are intended to achieve.

Zencart is designed to generate XHTML according to W3 principles and protocols. Tinkering with it can be risky - from a functional point of view as well as potentially introducing validation issues.

However, if you want to you can paste the Complete Works of Shakespeare in your header. It's up to you...

**maronesty** · 21 Sep 2011, 06:12 PM

Thanks for your help, I am new to zencart... My previous websites were made in very simple html by me, with a custom cart that was integrated by my brother.

So my perspective on this is a little bit different... Ive been looking for things that I would need to do, had I made this new website myself. I guess zencart takes alot of the work out of it for ya.

How do you recommend I remap vrls? Is there a good mod for doing this? This is something I know needs to be done, given the defaults are things like :

http:// homespasaunas. com///index.php?main_page=index&cPath=products_all

where this would be much better imo

http:// homespasaunas.com /saunas.html

**mprough** · 21 Sep 2011, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by maronesty

Thanks for your help, I am new to zencart... My previous websites were made in very simple html by me, with a custom cart that was integrated by my brother.

So my perspective on this is a little bit different... Ive been looking for things that I would need to do, had I made this new website myself. I guess zencart takes alot of the work out of it for ya.

How do you recommend I remap vrls? Is there a good mod for doing this? This is something I know needs to be done, given the defaults are things like :

http:// homespasaunas. com///index.php?main_page=index&cPath=products_all

where this would be much better imo

http:// homespasaunas.com /saunas.html

Rewriting your urls causes your site to be slower... it does not help you rank. But I would think you should rather concern yourself with setting up your configure files correctly as you are reporting incorrect canonicals, pages... you name it.

<base href="http://homespasaunas.com//" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://homespasaunas.com//" />

http://homespasaunas.com///index.php...h=products_all

Here is the info https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=408

~Melanie

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