Title Tags

[Davx]

Hi All,

I have been looking around for some way to input title tags for each category.

Currently ZC just uses the category name as a title tag, is it possible to add your own title tags to individual categories?

Kind Regards

Dave

[Davx]

I have also tried this in meta_tags.php:

define('META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_INDEX&CPATH=87', 'Test Title');

with no joy...

[stevesh]

Go to Admin - Catalog - Categories/Products and click the black and white icon on the far right for the category you want to change.

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=62

[Davx]

Stevesh, thanks for the reply however I think you misunderstood.

I am looking for a way to change the page title tags (displayed in top of browser) without changing the category title.

For example a category called Shoes:

I want to display "Shoes" as the category name, but for SEO purposes I would like the title tag to be "Mens designer shoe collection".

Kind Regards

[stevesh]

Check http ://www.stevesh.org/demo and click on the Hardware category. Is that what you wanted to happen ?

[Davx]

Stevesh, major apologies it is me that misunderstood.

I thought the metatag section was purely for metatags.

Many thanks.

[Serious]

So I finally found out what the heck the Meta-Tag Symbol was for...Thanks Stevesh!!

So of course now I have a question.

When adding Key Words do i need to use a seperator of some sort (, ; : ") or just a space between the individual words.

[Dianne]

Separate with a comma. The space doesn't matter (works with or without - as tested with zen cart's search feature).

As you may already know, major search engines such as Google no longer use keywords as part of their algorithm. However, adding keywords can help with your internal site search (when visitors search on your site).

If that is your goal, be sure to include common misspellings. Adding them to your keywords won't make them visible to the public but they will help your products be found when someone uses your site's search feature and can't spell worth a hoot (like me ).

[RescoCCC]

If that is your goal, be sure to include common misspellings.

This is risky. Even though search engines no longer assign relevance to key words, using misspellings might be considered blackhat and get the site penalized.

[Dianne]

Absolutely don't use black hat tactics. They will come back to haunt you sooner or later.

To clarify, I am not speaking of optimizing a web page for misspelling, or even including a misspelling on the web page at all. While there is wide debate as to whether such an act is black, gray or white hat, my suggestion has nothing to do with that.

I am suggesting including a common misspelling in the keywords. If there are 2-3 ways someone commonly misspells a product keyword (example: candle and candel), including the misspelled word ONCE in your keywords doesn't even rise to the level of spamming keywords.

Given that the major search engines are not using keywords, and as far as I can tell, are not penelizing misspellings in keywords either, the benefit to you in adding the misspelling ONCE to your keywords on that product page (using zen carts meta tags), is that if someone is on your site and uses your internal site search and misspells the word, that product will still show in your internal site search results.

However, if using a misspelling in this way is a concern, you can alternatively have a programmer work with your site search to either set-up synonyms or program it so that if someone enters a commonly misspelled word, it returns a result that says "Were you looking for x?". The misspellings would then not need to be in the keywords at all.

Hope this is helpful!