Zen Cart Product Tags (and Tag Cloud): Support Thread

lat9:

Thanks to @Ingar for access to his site so that I could "see" what was going on. I've just submitted v1.0.1 of the plugin to the Zen Cart moderators for review and will post back here when it's available for download.

 This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issues:

#5: Advanced Search: Correct MySQL error when sub-categories included.
#6: Advanced Search: Correct "no search results returned" when no tags are defined.
#7: Don't display Tag Cloud sidebox if no tags are defined.
Now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2262

Hello there,
Thanks for making this module! I just wondred, when using DBio importer, is there a way to import tags that are phrases of two words or more? I can set them in admin but it doesn't seem to like them (which makes sense). Wasn't sure if there was a symbol that would act as a space? Thanks in advance.

HeathenMagic:

Hello there,
Thanks for making this module! I just wondred, when using DBio importer, is there a way to import tags that are phrases of two words or more? I can set them in admin but it doesn't seem to like them (which makes sense). Wasn't sure if there was a symbol that would act as a space? Thanks in advance.
FWIW, I normally use a hyphen (-) to make kinda-sorta-not-exactly phrases (like the in-core tag on my website).

lat9:

FWIW, I normally use a hyphen (-) to make kinda-sorta-not-exactly phrases (like the in-core tag on my website).

Thanks for that. I did think of a hyphen but wasn't sure if it would mess with the SEO or the module functionality. Though I title most images like this, so think hyphens must be okay.

Cindy how would I get the tags related to a product to display below actual product?

Nick1973:

Cindy how would I get the tags related to a product to display below actual product?
Good idea, Nick. I've created a GitHub issue (https://github.com/lat9/ZenTags/issues/8) to track this change request.

I'm *assuming *that your request is for inclusion on a product's details (e.g. product_info) page.

lat9:

Good idea, Nick. I've created a GitHub issue (https://github.com/lat9/ZenTags/issues/8) to track this change request.

I'm *assuming *that your request is for inclusion on a product's details (e.g. product_info) page.

Yes on the product info page. The idea being that google will come along and pick up the associated keywords and then rank each product in the associated searches when someone searches on a specific term.

Here's another one for you. On the advanced search result page after you click on a tag it just says Advanced Search Result in the H1 tag.

It might be good to include the keyword term in the Advanced Search Result H1 tag. So you would have

<h1>Advanced Search Result - My Keyword Term from the Tag Cloud</h1>

I am also wondering if it would be beneficial to include these pages associated with the tag cloud in the website XML Sitemap with the Sitemap XML module.

Nick1973:

Yes on the product info page. The idea being that google will come along and pick up the associated keywords and then rank each product in the associated searches when someone searches on a specific term.

Here's another one for you. On the advanced search result page after you click on a tag it just says Advanced Search Result in the H1 tag.

It might be good to include the keyword term in the Advanced Search Result H1 tag. So you would have

Regarding the Sitemap XML information, I don't see what 'group' a collection of searchable products would fall into.

lat9:

Nick, I'll note that the breadcrumbs for the search page already include the search term; see https://vinosdefrutastropicales.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&tID=5&keyword=debug.

Regarding the Sitemap XML information, I don't see what 'group' a collection of searchable products would fall into.

Yeah I have it working on my site https://venturedesignandprint.co.uk

It's working a treat by the way. Do you think having the search term in the breadcrumbs is enough to make the actual search page an individual page for google ranking?

I'm not sure how you would do the sitemap, but I was thinking of each individual search term defined leading to the search page in the sitemap.

As an example I have 'Custom Business Cards' set up as a tag, and the link goes to https://venturedesignandprint.co.uk/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&tID=11&keyword=custom%20business%20cards

So it would be the search link that appears in the sitemap xml file. Not the individual products for that term. I suppose you could categorise them as something like 'Tagged Products' and 'sitemaptaggedproducts.xml' with a list of the tag links for google to crawl.

You are watching NOTIFY_MODULES_UPDATE_PRODUCT_END but not taking action when it fires. This seems like a bug.

swguy:

You are watching NOTIFY_MODULES_UPDATE_PRODUCT_END but not taking action when it fires. This seems like a bug.
Huh? Lines 49-55 of the plugin's admin observer read

            // -----
            // If a product is being updated, update its tag names as well.
            //
            case 'NOTIFY_MODULES_UPDATE_PRODUCT_END':
                $zen_tags = new ZenTags();
                $zen_tags->updateProductTagInputs((int)$p1a['products_id']);
                break;

Is this unreleased code? I think what's in the Plugin Library is different.

swguy:

Is this unreleased code? I think what's in the Plugin Library is different.
Nope, that was the precurser; the plugin library is current and that notification was in the previous (unreleased) version. It's benign as zc157 added a better set of notifications.

Am I looking at the wrong thing? When I go to Github to look at

YOUR_ADMIN/includes/classes/observers/ZenTagsAdminObserver.php

I am on

https://github.com/lat9/ZenTags/blob/master/YOUR_ADMIN/includes/classes/observers/ZenTagsAdminObserver.php

and that case statement isn't there.

swguy:

Am I looking at the wrong thing? When I go to Github to look at

YOUR_ADMIN/includes/classes/observers/ZenTagsAdminObserver.php

I am on

https://github.com/lat9/ZenTags/blob/master/YOUR_ADMIN/includes/classes/observers/ZenTagsAdminObserver.php

and that case statement isn't there.
Yes, but it's benign. Additional notifications were added in zc157 making that notification no longer needed/used.

Hello, we have installed the plug in, but the zen tag side box does not appear, we have checked the installed files several times and they are all there, zen 157d version. waiting for a codial greeting

giancalr:

Hello, we have installed the plug in, but the zen tag side box does not appear, we have checked the installed files several times and they are all there, zen 157d version. waiting for a codial greeting
Have you edited any products to add tags? The sidebox won't display if either the plugin is not enabled via configuration or there are no tags available. See My Site (in my signature) to see how it displays on zc157d.

Thanks for the quick reply, yes I have everything enabled and inserted meta tags in the products. but it still does not appear.

giancalr:

Thanks for the quick reply, yes I have everything enabled and inserted meta tags in the products. but it still does not appear.
ZenTags doesn't use the products' meta-tags, it uses the product-tags that you supply when you edit a product.

hello, thanks ok now it works,
I noticed that there are additional fields, EAN, Google Product Category, MNP, are they always part of the plug in?
Do these tags have an influence on search engines for positioning and seo? Thank you