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Jim. Your email bounced back to me when I replied this morning. Here's a copy of my email:

Quote:

Jim,

Looks like you're missing an {elseif $main eq "product"} part.

Here's mine for 3.5.5. This is optimized for search engines a bit by putting the product and category names first in the title (product if on a product page, category if on a category page).

Notice this part below:

Code:

{elseif $main eq "product"}

        {if $product.product ne ''} {$product.product}{/if}

I hope this helps!

Carrie

Code:

<title>

{if $main eq "catalog"}

        {if $location eq ""}  {$lng.txt_subtitle_home}

        {else}

        {strip}

        {section name=position loop=$location start=0 }

        {if %position.last% eq "true"} {$location[position].0|escape}{/if}

        {/section}

        {/strip}

        {/if}

{elseif $main eq "product"}

        {if $product.product ne ''} {$product.product}{/if}

{elseif $main eq "help"}

{$lng.txt_subtitle_help}

{elseif $main eq "cart"}

{$lng.txt_subtitle_cart}

{elseif $main eq "checkout"}

{$lng.txt_subtitle_checkout}

{elseif $main eq "order_message"}

{$lng.txt_subtitle_thankyou}

{elseif $main eq "wishlist"}

{$lng.txt_subtitle_wishlist}

{elseif $main eq "giftcert"}

{$lng.txt_subtitle_giftcerts}

{/if}

 @ {$lng.txt_site_title}

</title>

I hope that helps!

Carrie

Carrie,

Even though it's raining and nasty outside today, I am a happy camper. You made my day with this mod. It now works perfectly. I really like the product name showing up first before the store name. Thanks for all your help.

Jim K.

Looks liken the X-cart team thought this mod was a good idea. Check out this from the 4.0.10 changelog:

"Thu Dec 23 15:51:00 MSK 2004[*] - svowl - Improvement: On the product details page (customer area) meta tags based on the product title and short description are used."

Thanks for the info Alltribes! I didn't notice that. I'll be curious to see how they did it compaired to how I did it. Guess my free version is only good then for versions earlier than 4.0.10, the paid version is still a bit more flexible it seems.

Carrie

I was just about to install your mod when I saw that. I'm going to have them upgrade me with my next project and see if I need to anymore.

does this mod work with 4.0.13? it seems the meta.tpl is different..

I'm using the free mod..

Yes it should work for 4.0.13 I may need to update the instructions though as the meta.tpl has changed a lot in the last (2 I think) x-cart versions. As X-cart is trying to implement something similar to my free mod. Although I haven't seen in the x-cart admin yet where to set product keywords or descriptions.

Let me know if you can't figure it out for 4.0.13. When I have a chance, I'll update the code on my site.

Carrie

I have updated my meta.tpl for version 4.0.13 for my free and paid versions. If you've previously gotten either one from me and would like a new copy, just put in a ticket here with your order number and I'll reissue you a download key for the free one or email you an update for the paid one.

http://support.bcsengineering.com/

Thanks!

Carrie

Works flawlessly in 4.0.12 even though I had to use the 4.0.13 Meta.tpl

Now getting results like this across all products

Title: 75 SpeakerMate Model 4 :: Speakermate :: Pro Equipment :: Ross Custom Cabinets
Description: 113 Click here for SpeakerMate Model 4 connection examples Click here for detailed instructions in Adobe pdf format
Keywords: 61 SpeakerMate,Model,4,SpeakerMate Model 4,ross custom cabinets,

Meta tags analysis.
Title: Title meta tag contains no errors.

Title relevancy to page content is excellent.
The Title relevancy to page content is 100%.

Description: Description meta tag contains no errors.

Description relevancy to page content is excellent.
The Description relevancy to page content is 100%.

Keywords: Keywords meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 5 keywords and 61 characters.

Keyword relevancy to page content is excellent.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 100%.

Robots: Found no robots meta tag.

Author: Found no author meta tag.

Does anyone know if there's a mod for placing robots.txt and author name on each page?

Allan

Allan,

Great to see those excellent results. What tool did you use to analyze it?

You can put the robots and author meta tags before the {* BCSE begin *} code would probably be the easiest place to put it.

Carrie