meta tags keywords & description are the same

My meta tags keywords & description are the same on my homepage. I tried to find where this is but am having no luck. Check the source here http://www.machomanjack.com/store

They are exactly as the code works... built dynamically from your categories and custom content.... and change according to which page/product/category you're viewing.

What exactly were you wanting it to do? and what did you want on other pages?

It seems all other pages are ok except the homepage (index) I want the description to be the description - not keywords.

Anybody know about this? Im trying to submit to search engines and sites - but I have now correct description. Is there a fix for this?

Ed

1. open your /includes/languages/english/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php

2. add a new line anywhere between the <?php and the closing ?> which says:

define('MY_IMPORTANT_HOME_PAGE_DESCRIPTION', 'blah blah blah blah');
```(substituting blah blah blah with your preferred home-page-only description, naturally)

3. edit /includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
around line 138 you have:```php
      define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', TITLE . PRIMARY_SECTION . str_replace(array("'",'"'),'',strip_tags(HEADING_TITLE)) . SECONDARY_SECTION . KEYWORDS);
```change that to:```php
      define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', MY_IMPORTANT_HOME_PAGE_DESCRIPTION);

4. Submit to search engines and watch closely

Thank you very much!! Tat did the trick.

Worked perfectly - now- can I do something similar for the main page keywords???

Thanx!

Ok... that fixed my problem... well sort of.. the description part worked but the most of the keywords are selected by ZEN... whatever I put in the catorgory menu will show up at keywords... I can add them myself but ZEN just adds them to the end of the ones it put in itself... makes sense ??

Have a look at my site exampe but in this search http://www.submitexpress.com/ go to META TAG ANALIZE and type in my page . https://www.timeoutmassage.com.au/zen and look at the Keywords... most of them are the menus and MY keywords are added on the end....
I want to add ALL keywords... do not want ZEN to do it for me..

Ta
Dave

Evening all, can anyone help?

I dont have the metatags.php in includes/modules/mytemplate. I also dont have it in includes/modules/classic.

Any ideas on this? Need to edit my site desciption which displays on google. Have amended it in languages/english/mytemplate/metatags but cant get the 2nd part of the above solution sorted.

Any info greatly appreciated!

Many thanks

ryangsoton:

Evening all, can anyone help?

I dont have the metatags.php in includes/modules/mytemplate. I also dont have it in includes/modules/classic.

Any ideas on this? Need to edit my site desciption which displays on google. Have amended it in languages/english/mytemplate/metatags but cant get the 2nd part of the above solution sorted.

Any info greatly appreciated!

Many thanks

I think this is what you want to do:

Copy it from /includes/modules/meta_tags.php and then create /includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATE/ and upload the modified meta_tags.php file there.

MY IMPORTANT HOME PAGE DESCRIPTION worked well in the Zencart version 1.3.2. After I upgraded to version 1.3.5, this trick does not work anymore! :no:
On the line 148 (not 138) of /includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php we have:
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', TITLE . PRIMARY_SECTION . str_replace(array("'",'"'),'',strip_tags(HEADING_TITLE)) . SECONDARY_SECTION . KEYWORDS);
That line needs to be replaced by:
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', MY_IMPORTANT_HOME_PAGE_DESCRIPTION);
But the home page still displays an automatically generated description instead of defined one in /includes/languages/english/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php:
// Home Page Description
define('MY_IMPORTANT_HOME_PAGE_DESCRIPTION', 'Unique gifts, jewelry, Baltic amber, ... ');
Check out it here.
Please help! :down:

In your includes -> templates -> YOUR_TEMPLATE -> common -> html_header.php

add the following code:

<?php if ($current_page!='index' || (int)$cPath>0 ) { ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo META_TAG_DESCRIPTION; ?>" />
<?php } else { ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo CUSTOM_HOMEPAGE_META_TAG_DESCRIPTION; ?>" />
<?php } ?>

Thanks, it worked! :smile:

As you suggested, I modified the includes -> templates -> YOUR_TEMPLATE -> common -> html_header.php by replacing line 42:

with the following:

The only other change was the addition of the following line in includes/languages/english/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php:

// Home Page Description
define('MY_IMPORTANT_HOME_PAGE_DESCRIPTION', 'Unique gifts, jewelry, Baltic amber, ... ');

Thanks a lot! The custom homepage metatag description works in version 1.3.5 too! :yes:

Check out it here.

Can i do this same techique with the keywords as the description part did work can i just change "description" to keywords?

Hello to you all

1 st i want to say thank you for all of you that take the time helpping,
i am a new to web site, but here i find it not that scary to play around with my site.

well i was able to fix my description but i have no idea how to fix the keyword, can some one help me?

my site is www.tiledepot.us/store and after all that was say in this blog, i can't find any where how to edit my keyword, seam that any place i try i mess up my site or it dose not make any effect on my keywords

thank again

Hi again

Tahnks i find the answer and thank to vitualahmad and his quick responed i am all set to go , if any one need my help in regard that issue , i dont mind email me [email protected] as i dont log in here only when i have probelm lol

thx for all other thet help me by posting answers you are great

:thumbsup:

DrByte,
Dont suppose you could develop this further for us could you? This is a great insite, but not being a programmer I cannot take it to the next step :)

DrByte:

1. open your /includes/languages/english/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php

2. add a new line anywhere between the <?php and the closing ?> which says:

define('MY_IMPORTANT_HOME_PAGE_DESCRIPTION', 'blah blah blah blah');

>  
> 3. edit /includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
> around line 138 you have:```php
      define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', TITLE . PRIMARY_SECTION . str_replace(array("'",'"'),'',strip_tags(HEADING_TITLE)) . SECONDARY_SECTION . KEYWORDS);
```change that to:```php
      define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', MY_IMPORTANT_HOME_PAGE_DESCRIPTION);

Can this be edited for all pages? cannot quite see my way through though to try it. If I add lines as in 2 above:

define('CONTACT_US_DESCRIPTION', 'blah blah blah blah'); 
define('ABOUT_US_DESCRIPTION', 'blah2 blah2 blah2 blah2');    

Can I then do something with the other file? Also with the title?

Ideally, we could just do something like this:

define('CONTACT_US_TITLE', 'The best title in the world');
define('CONTACT_US_DESCRIPTION', 'blah blah blah blah');
define('NEW_EZPAGE_OR_OTHER_TITLE', 'The best second title in the world');
define('NEW_EZPAGE_OR_OTHER_DESCRIPTION', 'blah2 blah2 blah2 blah2');

Does this make sense? Is there a way to make this work please?

DrByte:

1. open your /includes/languages/english/YOURTEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
   Thanks Doctor...
   I need this quick and easy fix too...:clap:
   Just have to hope G**gle crawl my home page soon to fix up my webpage description.

Ok got part of it. Put:

case 'about_us': 
  define('META_TAG_TITLE', 'About site '); 
  define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', 'If you call us you I will either answer you personally, or my wife Sue, or Debbie will answer. Same with email. So If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.'); 
  define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', 'keywords'); 
  break; 

Into
modules/eshopone/meta_tags.php

Just need something similar for ezpages :)

For EZ-Pages ... you could start with this for those pages that are defined:

  case 'page':
  define('META_TAG_TITLE', 'EZ-Page ');
  define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', 'This page is just an EZ way for us to build new pages');
  define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', 'keywords lots and lots of ez keywords');
  break;

You could get more specific per page if needed with the $_GET['id'] ...