Edit META and TITLE tags

[dave3009]

Hi All

 

I have been searching for an answer to this and so far I've come up with nothing. I am trying to edit the META tags and TITLE tag on a site. I have trawled my folders for a file called header_tag.php and many other things I found but to no avail. I eventually found some editable tags on the index.php file so I changed these and again no change.

 

My question is:

 

Where can I change the META tags (so I can include no standard tags such as "google-site-verification") and where do I find 'echo TITLE' so I can change the title for better SEO.

 

Many Thanks for any responses.

 

Kind Regards

 

 

Dave

 

p.s. I am new to oscommerce and php so please be gentle

[multimixer]

There is a contribution called "header tags SEO" This will do everything you need. ---> Header Tags SEO.

 

I suggest to install it.

 

gentle enough? :)

[crecepts2009]

put google verification code in catalog\includes\header.php

[dave3009]

Thank You, that was plenty gentle

 

I haven't been given the ACP login details yet so I guess when I get them things will be easier. I thought this was some kinda global_header type thing as I was easily able to impliment google analytics on the footer.php. I'll just wait for the details to come to me and see what I can do when they arrive.

 

Thanks for your input

 

Best Wishes

 

 

Dave

[dave3009]

put google verification code in catalog\includes\header.php

 

Thanks, I don't have a catalog folder I only have

 

admin

aspnet_client

download

images

includes

pub

static

wwwstats

 

I'm guessing some of these folders have been heavily modified by the agency who created this site. I've inherited it so I guess I'm in for a bit of a tough time unravelling the legacy.

 

Thanks for your input

 

Best wishes

 

 

Dave

[Jack_mcs]

Thanks, I don't have a catalog folder I only have

 

admin

aspnet_client

download

images

includes

pub

static

wwwstats

 

I'm guessing some of these folders have been heavily modified by the agency who created this site. I've inherited it so I guess I'm in for a bit of a tough time unravelling the legacy.

 

Thanks for your input

 

Best wishes

 

 

Dave

When someone refers to the catalog directory, they are referring to the root of your shop (where your index.php file is located).

 

Oscommerce doesn't come with code for meta tags. You can manually add them to each file as you would in an html site but that won't help much with the search engines since many pages are used for more than one display and they would all end up with the same title and tags. To do it correctly, you need to install a meta tag contribution, as suggested above by multimixer.

[dave3009]

Hi Jacks_mcs

 

I have just had the admin page access sent to me so the use of this addin is now doable.

 

I really appreciate the help from the forum it's be very useful.

 

Thanks for your input

 

Best Wishes

 

 

Dave