X-Cart forums - How to Separate Home Page SEO from CAT & Product pages?

It took me all afternoon to figure this out, but after reviewing my smarty ebook it became obvious. This is what worked for 4.1.8:

Your Meta Description and Meta Keywords for categories and sub-categories should be filled in.

In admin, go to General Settings >> SEO Option. Uncheck:

Include categories' META data into the site meta tags:
Include products' META data into the site meta tags:

Open meta.tpl and find lines 27 to 33. Code should be similar to this unless you made some changes:

HTML Code:

{if $current_category.meta_descr ne "" and $config.SEO.include_meta_categories eq "Y"}

  {assign var="_meta_descr" value="$_meta_descr`$current_category.meta_descr` "}

  {assign var="_meta_keywords" value="$_meta_keywords`$current_category.meta_keywords` "}

  {/if}

  {assign var="_meta_descr" value="$_meta_descr`$config.SEO.meta_descr`"}

  {assign var="_meta_keywords" value="$_meta_keywords`$config.SEO.meta_keywords`"}

Change:

HTML Code:

{if $current_category.meta_descr ne "" and $config.SEO.include_meta_categories eq "Y"}

For

HTML Code:

{if $current_category.meta_descr ne "" and $config.SEO.include_meta_categories eq "N"}

(the only thing that changed here was ⌠Y■ for ⌠N■)

Add

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{else}

After

HTML Code:

{assign var="_meta_keywords" value="$_meta_keywords`$current_category.meta_keywords` "}

Remove

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{/if}

Right after the recently placed

HTML Code:

{else}

Finally, add

HTML Code:

{/if}

After

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{assign var="_meta_keywords" value="$_meta_keywords`$config.SEO.meta_keywords`"}

The new code should look like this:

HTML Code:

{if $current_category.meta_descr ne "" and $config.SEO.include_meta_categories eq "N"}

  {assign var="_meta_descr" value="$_meta_descr`$current_category.meta_descr` "}

  {assign var="_meta_keywords" value="$_meta_keywords`$current_category.meta_keywords` "}

  {else}

  {assign var="_meta_descr" value="$_meta_descr`$config.SEO.meta_descr`"}

  {assign var="_meta_keywords" value="$_meta_keywords`$config.SEO.meta_keywords`"}

  {/if}

Hope this works for you folks