Sophy Blue Template

**eggdashure** · 27 Feb 2009, 06:28 AM

Hey all,

First of all thank you for the template! I modified the template a little for my wifes gift basket site at http://www.monumentalgiftbaskets.com.

Here's my question, the site is still in its infancy. I am using statcounter and I noticed that someone navigated to our site via MSN, searching keywords monumental gift baskets. Rather strange, but I did a search just to see, of course we are number one.

Here's the rub, the description reads as follows : "HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION ... Monumental Gift Baskets. Impress that special someone with a themed gift basket." Notice the "HOME_PA..." section? Did I set something wrong in our Meta_Tags.php? Any ideas are much appreciated!

Version: 1.3.8a

Matt

**ideasgirl** · 27 Feb 2009, 06:49 AM

First of all the "Themed Gift Basket" is incorrect since is themed by IDEAS.

I don't understand what you are sayins since your store is Monumental Gift Baskets even the domain is that. So you are saying that you don't want people to find you using your name as keyword?

**eggdashure** · 27 Feb 2009, 04:38 PM

Sorry...I'm not sure where I messed up there.

"Themed Gift Baskets" is the set of Keywords I am using on our site for SEO. When I went to MSN and punched our site into the search "Monumental Gift Baskets" our site showed up on the results. Here is what MSN posted for the results...

Monumental Gift Baskets

HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION ... Monumental Gift Baskets. Impress that special someone with a themed gift basket.

* monumentalgiftbaskets.com * · Cached page

Notice the first part of my search results shows [HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION].

Why would the search engine pick-up on [HOME_PAGE....] as keywords? I thought that the template was designed to use a definition and that would direct the SE to [Meta_Tags.php]? I've edited both meta_tags pages, so I'm a little lost.

I hope I explained it properly.

Thanks

**ideasgirl** · 27 Feb 2009, 05:07 PM

"Themed Gift Baskets" is the set of Keywords I am using on our site for SEO.

Shouldn't be on the footer. You are saying that the theme of the site was made by "Gift Baskets". This is not the proper way to do SEO.

Why would the search engine pick-up on [HOME_PAGE....] as keywords?

Your metatags look this way, that's why:

HTML Code:

<title>Monumental Gift Baskets</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="HOME_PAGE_META_KEYWORDS" />
<meta name="description" content="HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart&trade; Team and others" />
<meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart&trade;, http://www.zen-cart.com eCommerce" />

The template was designed for 1.3.6. After that the metatags were taken to a file of their own. If you haven't work on that, maybe that's your problem. Also check if you are using the overrides correctly.

**eggdashure** · 27 Feb 2009, 11:04 PM

Meta Tags:

includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php

// page title
define('HOME_PAGE_TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');
define('TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');

// Site Tagline
define('SITE_TAGLINE', 'Themed Gift Baskets');

// Custom Keywords
define('CUSTOM_KEYWORDS', 'Themed, Gift, Baskets, Wedding, Welcome, Home, Graduation, Blooming, Roses, Under, Baby, Candy, Bouquets, Pets, Easter');

// Home Page Only:
define('HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION', 'Monumental Gift Baskets offers a great variety of stunning gift baskets for any occasion. Weddings, Graduation, New Baby, Candy Bouquets, Roses, and so much more.');
define('HOME_PAGE_META_KEYWORDS', 'Themed, Gift, Baskets, Wedding, Welcome, Home, Graduation, Blooming, Roses, Under, Baby, Candy, Bouquets, Pets, Easter');

includes/languages/english/sophyblue/meta_tags.php

// page title
define('HOME_PAGE_TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');
define('TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');

// Site Tagline
define('SITE_TAGLINE', 'Themed Gift Baskets');

// Custom Keywords
define('CUSTOM_KEYWORDS', 'Themed, Gift, Baskets, Wedding, Welcome, Home, Graduation, Blooming, Roses, Under, Baby, Candy, Bouquets, Pets, Easter');

I do not claim to be an SEO expert and I will fix my footer. But this is a listing of my meta_tags.php from both locations. The upper one clearly defines description and keywords as is requested on the main page. So my question would be why the front page is not pulling the info properly?

**ideasgirl** · 28 Feb 2009, 01:10 AM

Just focus your atention to this directory:
includes/languages/english/sophyblue/

Did you check the header code? Just in case is not the old code.

**eggdashure** · 28 Feb 2009, 03:08 AM

Ok, I fixed it. Basically, both meta tag files contained different information in each. I went through and made sure both files had all the info from each other. After I did this the keywords and description showed. Thanks for the shove in the right direction.

**dirtypants** · 7 Mar 2009, 05:50 AM

Ideas Girl;

A few questions ... for one, I don't have any text at the bottom that indicates that you designed the template from which I modified my store. Where was that info? Where do you prefer it to go?

My second question is regarding the missing "information.php" file (at least it seems to be missing). I'll show you a screenshot:

http://store.behaviorresearchcompany..._sophyblue.gif

or http://tinyurl.com/b6ud24

The site is temporarily up at http://store.behaviorresearchcompany.com/

Also, what are the mods that I have to deal with because it was developed for 1.3.6? Is there a turorial somewhere? I've tried to read through this thread, but it is incredibly difficult to read the whole thing.

Thank you so much. It really was a great template from which to work!

S

**ideasgirl** · 10 Mar 2009, 06:59 PM

I don't have any text at the bottom that indicates that you designed the template from which I modified my store. Where was that info? Where do you prefer it to go?

Just upload the folder of languages included with your template and you are done.

My second question is regarding the missing "information.php" file (at least it seems to be missing). I'll show you a screenshot:

It's not missinig. On the contrary, a custom sidebox for "information" was created.

Also, what are the mods that I have to deal with because it was developed for 1.3.6?

No, there were minimum changes made to the template structure from 1.3.6 to 1.3.8 that you probably can pickup on the forums with the log changes from version to version.