Hi Dave,
I just wonder whether it possible to have proper met tag for individual section. I have looked various theards, one way or another they don't fits proper SEO requirement.
Here is one problem; When a category is selected your $q variable will print out category:category_name. This means I need to change code that assings items to $q in the search.php (I assume). Similar problem goes for BRAND, MERCHANT and PRODUCT page itself.
Is there any way I can have titles as follows:
in category
<title>abc company category search for [category]</title>
[category] is the placeholder variable
in brand
<title>abc company brand search for [brand]</title>
[brand] is the placeholder variable
in merchant
<title>abc company merchant search for [merchant]</title>
[brand] is the placeholder variable
in search results
<title>abc company shopping results for [keyword]</title>
[keyword] is the placeholder variable
It is important that actual placeholder variables returns the just item itself e.g shoes not category:shoes also it follows the rewirte rules and page numbering rules.
In terms of page numbering, it would even better if I could make it as follows:
in search results
<title>abc company shopping results page XXX for [keyword]</title>
Similar patter to follow in MERCHANT, BRAND, CATEGORY as well.
Really appreciate your marvelous help and the app itself.
Noor
Hello Noor,
Sure - in search.php look for where title is currently set by the following code at line 320:
$header["title"] = htmlentities($q,ENT_QUOTES,$config_charset);...and REPLACE with:
switch($parts[0]){
case "merchant":
case "category":
case "brand":
$header["title"] = "ABC company ".$parts[0]." search results page ".$page." for ".htmlentities($parts[1],ENT_QUOTES,$config_charset);
break;
default
$header["title"] = "ABC company shopping results page ".$page." for ".htmlentities($parts[1],ENT_QUOTES,$config_charset);
break;
}
There is already code to append the page to the end of the title so you probably want to comment out or delete line 335:
$header["title"] .= " | ".translate("Page")." ".$page;Cheers,
David.
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