♥Tsimi Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 hi actually i was looking for a Category Description Add-On for 2.3.3.x but could not find anything that works and during my search here (osC Forum) i read people mentioning SEO Add-Ons which include Categories Description so you could have SEO and Description in one. I searched for SEO and found this. SEO Header Tags - RELOADED http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8864 I just love this add-on and its to bad it doesn't get the same attention as the other SEO add-ons. why is that i wonder? great job on this one burt! :thumbsup: this contribution reminds me of an old add-on i used in the days of osC 2.2MS2 called header tags controller. it also has the category description field in the admin but won't show up in the category in the front end. maybe i'm misunderstanding that function so if burt or anyone else could shed light in this i would really appreciate it. and is this add-on compatible with ULTIMATE Seo Urls 5? thank you and regards Tsimi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Tsimi Posted October 29, 2013 Author Share Posted October 29, 2013 Thank you so much burt! *bigbow* your index.php did the trick. It's 0:43 here so i'll go sleep and take a closer look tomorrow (well, today) again. It's a really great add-on and it deserves more attention. i think most people give up or don't choose this add-on because there is no (step by step) install manual. If you allow it, i would like to create a step by step manual for your add-on. not really sure i can make it but i would like to try. Thanks again. Lambros Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥joli1811 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Hi Big Bear, Just a question maybe a stupid one ! Product Mini Description: Used in the "product list" in Category Pages. I can not seem to find it :rolleyes: I see it in the database but should this be appearing under the category images or product listing or am I misunderstanding this completely ? Regards Joli dinopacha 1 Quote To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥joli1811 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) It is used in the product listing - but it is there for a future release of the reloaded package. https://github.com/gburton/oscommerce2/commit/8856be0e53b1a7a39d9174974ebebf5c6b4e032e If you want to make the functional change in the product_listing.php use the osc_get_mini_description function. It's all there, ready to use. Ok got you thanks ! "I sought in GIt I could not see I guess it just eluded me". :thumbsup: Just been studying today very impressed love the Products Title for SEO: great features often struggled with many similar products trying to differentiate and still have a decent title will be interesting to see what Großmeister Google has to say. Thanks Joli Edited November 14, 2013 by joli1811 Quote To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8864 Fileset updated to fix a bug I introduced and to update the breadcrumb to use the SEO given names as appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8864 Now includes the G+ module. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8864 - update to the opengraph module to deal with the new names for some keys If you only need this new module (in other words you have all the rest installed already), simply upload the following files to overwrite what you already have in place: /includes/modules/header_tags/ht_product_opengraph.php /includes/languages/{language}/modules/header_tags/ht_product_opengraph.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newburns Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Maybe I'm missing something. How do you change the Page Title for the index page? Mine just say Index Page Title Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥joli1811 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 /catalog/includes/languages/english/index.php if ( ($category_depth == 'top') && (!isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'])) ) { define('META_SEO_TITLE', 'Index Page Title'); define('META_SEO_DESCRIPTION', 'This is the description of your site to be used in the META Description Element'); define('META_SEO_KEYWORDS', 'these, are, the, comma, separated, keywords, used in the META keywords Element'); } ?> Quote To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) Thanks @@joli1811 :thumbsup: @@newburns - don't bother with Meta Keywords at all for the whole of your site unless you are selling into the Chinese Market in which case use them on the product pages only. Instead use the keywords as a internal product search facility - done in the setting in "meta header tag module" and the little change in advanced_search_result Edited December 6, 2013 by burt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paedi199 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Hi all together! I just tried to install the SEO Header Tags - RELOADED. It seems to work, at least partially. Maybe i'm wrong and it does what it should do, i'm here to find that out :-) I implemented all stuff without any error. But when i check the sourcecode of a product site, i only find the following entriy: <meta name="description" content="Blair's Jalapeno Death Hot Sauce" /> Here i'm missing the metadescription etc. In the Administration of the Product i entered of course the Description text. Any ideas whats going wrong? Many, many thanks for any help! Cheers Patrik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 URL ? Supply Screenshot of Admin interface for the product... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paedi199 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Many thanks for your answer, heres the screenshot, the URL is http://www.sauces.ch for the shop and http://sauces.ch/product_info.php?products_id=30 fo the product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Ok, that helps, thanks. Next question to you is "whats the problem" ? In the screenshot, you show that the "product meta description for SEO" is "Blair's Jalapeno Death Hot Sauce". In the code, it shows the meta description as "Blair's Jalapeno Death Hot Sauce". Functionality is correct. Change the seo description in admin and the underlying meta code should change. Report back if it is still a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paedi199 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Thanky, you are right, thats correct and i was simply blind...sorry about that! So im only missing the meta keywords in the souce code. Btw: Thanks for your great work!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Keywords are useless, don't bother with them UNLESS you are selling into the land of China as Baidu (the main Chinese search engine, does use Keywords). Instead use the Keywords system as an internal search engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paedi199 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Okydoki! Thanks a lot for you help and the Information! Cheers, Patrik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥joli1811 Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) Ok got you thanks ! "I sought in GIt I could not see I guess it just eluded me". :thumbsup: Just been studying today very impressed love the Products Title for SEO: great features often struggled with many similar products trying to differentiate and still have a decent title will be interesting to see what Großmeister Google has to say. Thanks Joli Hi Burt , Got my mini description working added a read more link what I was wondering is (w00t) thinking again (dangerous) I have limited the description in the database by using varchar(128) instead of text but think it would be cleaner to limit the description in the code below as found some bugs if I did not use enough characters I would get a /> in the desc panel in admin and this would then break the link ...read more been (using ckeditor) or is this a stripslashes thing ? case 'PRODUCT_LIST_NAME': if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id']) && tep_not_null($HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'])) { $prod_list_contents .= ' <tr><td style="background-color: #ecf6fc;"><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'manufacturers_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'] . '&products_id=' . $listing['products_id']) . '">' . $listing['products_name'] . '</a></b><br>' . $listing['products_mini_description'] . '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'manufacturers_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'] . '&products_id=' . $listing['products_id']) . '">' . DESCR_READ_MORE . '</a></td>'; } else { $prod_list_contents .= ' <tr><td style="background-color: #ecf6fc;"><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, ($cPath ? 'cPath=' . $cPath . '&' : '') . 'products_id=' . $listing['products_id']) . '">' . $listing['products_name'] . '</a></b><br>' . $listing['products_mini_description'] .'<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'manufacturers_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['manufacturers_id'] . '&products_id=' . $listing['products_id']) . '">' . DESCR_READ_MORE . '</a></td>'; } PS: added a quantity box also looks cool so question is have you any hidden gems / code snippets for the product listing that I can play with ? Thanks John Edited December 27, 2013 by joli1811 Quote To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Not 100% sure I'm understanding the question. The "mini description" is something the shop owner would type, so there should be no need for any of this... I think it is related to your question in chat where you wanted to shortcut the mini description by using a portion of the main description ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥joli1811 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Not 100% sure I'm understanding the question. The "mini description" is something the shop owner would type, so there should be no need for any of this... I think it is related to your question in chat where you wanted to shortcut the mini description by using a portion of the main description ? No x 2 separate questions actually. The way I see now correct me if I am wrong it is that the mini description is snippet from the product description. If the product description is written correctly I see no need for the mini description to be any different we know google takes about the first 20 words plus the seo title for the search results so my thinking is the mini description should be basically the first part of the product description. For me it means if the search bot does not get into the deeper / categories / products he could for example from the product listing find what he needs from the mini description and that would lead him then to the product page. So should mini description be different or just a snippet from the full product description my opinion is it should be the same as long as the product description is written with seo in mind. Now that then gets to my question when entering the mini description it is possible to enter 20 words or 50 which has the result that the product listing or whatever page is using the mini description looks unbalanced unless you count the words in admin better to have a uniform look easier to read for the customer and just looks tidy . I limited this in the database by using varchar(128) but think it is better to limit on the actual page that is using the mini description SUBSTRING_INDEX(pd.products_mini_description, ' ', 20) as products_mini_description, now that code is probably silly but know you will understand better what I mean Regards John Quote To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Tsimi Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 @@burt hi burt i have seen you uploaded a new version. if i have SEO Header Tags - Reloaded already installed which files need to be replaced/updated? any changes inside the SQL file? or is it the same as the version before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Download Winmerge, compare the 2 filesets. Or read the readme (which gives a broad indication of changes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker74 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Burt, Just updated to the newest version and when i goto login a customer i get this error: Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/tinker74/public_html/shop/includes/functions/general.php:1423) in /home/tinker74/public_html/shop/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 104 Warning: session_regenerate_id(): Cannot regenerate session id - headers already sent in /home/tinker74/public_html/shop/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 183 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/tinker74/public_html/shop/includes/functions/general.php:1423) in /home/tinker74/public_html/shop/includes/functions/general.php on line 50 How do i fix this please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker74 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 burt... please goto my site: http://www.tinkerplayground.com/shop/ what are the errors at the top....something to do with sessions please help.. Thanks a lot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 (edited) Means you've made a mistake, start over. Whitespace at end of general.php file most likely, this has been covered 100s of times in the forums. Edited January 14, 2014 by burt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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