Individual Title + Meta for products
 

Does anyone know if there has been any solution created to allow us to give title tags and meta to each product? The only thing I have seen is Funkydunk's "total meta tag control" mod (http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=3703) and that pertains to categories rather than products. I've searched through the forums and have only seen people inquiring about this, rather than any solutions. Have I missed them or is individual control of the title/meta tags really not an issue for everyone here?

My store has always gotten the bulk of its traffic from search engine results because we spend an increasing amount of effort on keeping the title (and meta) tags up to date for each product. If the ability to do this were lost using X-Cart... I wouldn't even want to imagine the traffic and customers that could be lost.

Any ideas?

All you have to do is edit meta.tpl and home.tpl

In meta.tpl put something like

{if $main eq "product"}put meta tags here, i believe the product info is {$product.descr} for example{/if}

If I understand correctly, doing that would take the universal meta.tpl file, and add an IF statement that would display the product information (for example) in the meta?

What I need to be able to do is enter unique information different from anything that is entered in my store. (For instance, certain marketing-like words would be overly akward in my product description or name, yet they improve SE ranking and are appropriate in the title tag) The meta is an important issue as well, but the unique title tags are absolutely essential.

Note: I am using version 3.4.14

solved!
 

:D CartMods.com was able to quickly create a mod that did this for me. Hopefully they'll add it as one of their standard mods, but if not, I would highly suggest contacting them and asking for this one. Having encountered so many unhelpful online businesses, it was a refreshing experience to deal with such prompt and polite people!

I now have the ability to set a unique title, meta keywords, and meta description for each product. This is absolutely invaluable for good search engine rankings, and EVERY cart should be able to do this.

This is awsome :) We have actually been looking for this ourselves!

I just added the mod to our site :D

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are you talking about a mod like what I have on my site www.walkerconsulting.net ?

I was told that the meta tag is already in the new version 4+, but I don't believe it offers individual meta tags for each item, but rather the same accross the board. Can anyone advise how to make them individual in the new version, if possible? Thanks.

I want to put description as

{if $main eq"product"}
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="{$product.product}">
{/if}


However, I am confused about {$product.product}, that code doesn't work (I think!) I tried code for product id and it showd perfect, but I want to show product title there, and above code doesn't work.

What should I put up there?

Thanks

Just a follow-up to this posting. The following code does work, just make sure you are careful where in the "meta.tpl" you are placing this code. There are plenty of "if" statements in "meta.tpl". Make sure you don't get your code nested inside another "if" statement.

{if $main eq "product"}
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="{$product.product}">
{else}
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Your normal meta description here">
{/if}

Save yourself some problems go to the link below and you will get this mod for free.

It works great I have implemented on my site

http://bcsengineering.com/store/catalog/Product_Meta_Tags__FREE_Xcart_Mod-p-88.html

Please give Carrie some big Kuddos on this one.

I hope this will help

Kind regards,
Ricky

Yeah i've gone with Carries @ BCSE as well and it works great

I wish it were that easy. Some of my 100,000 products don't have descriptions so I needed to add a few iterations to check each piece of data. It works really well. Good news is, this is only a smarty mod, no new PHP needed. Bad news - I have to rerun my 100,000 product catalog. I have a cron script to run the catalog however.

I looked at the link...I think I'll buy a few of the other mods!

You could do this in a matter of seconds using CVS by simply copying and dropping the information into the correct tables.

I also have a paid version now that combines the free mod features with being able to use extra fields to add keywords meta tags and description meta tags. If there's no data in the extra fields for keywords and/or description then it will auto generate keywords and/or description for you with data from the product. So the paid one may work better for you since you don't have descriptions for most of your products. You can find it here:
http://www.bcsengineering.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=95&MMCF_xf_pmt

Hope that helps!

Carrie