SEO friendly info...

[golftrainer]

I am trying to get my page titles and description to be as seo friendly as possible, and need help.

I was just told by a Miva specialist that this can be done "out of the box" with miva 5.

Anyone out there to show me:)

I would like a unique product name and description for each product for the serps.

[Luke]

Are you talking about putting the product's title as the page title and it's description in a meta tag?

[golftrainer]

Yes...so the se's see the product name at the very far left and can read a descriptive seo friendly meta description.

[Luke]

well that's very simple with MIVA 5's store morph technology. Are you familiar with any sort of programming? There are entities (or tokens) you can use that will display the product name, description and pretty much anything else... take a look here: http://docs.smallbusiness.miva.com/en-US/merchant/5/webhelp/Store_Morph_Technology_(SMT)_-_Working_with_Page_Templates.htm (http://docs.smallbusiness.miva.com/en-US/merchant/5/webhelp/Store_Morph_Technology_%28SMT%29_-_Working_with_Page_Templates.htm)

[golftrainer]

This is too confusing for me. Can someone show me exactly in the code where I can change page title and description for the meta data?

[Luke]

Here are step-by-step instructions:

1. Log in to admin area
2. Click plus sign next to "Stores" in menu on the left
3. Click plus sign next to the store name you are trying to work on
4. Click "Pages"
5. Find the page called "Product Display" in the list on the right
6. Click "Edit"
7. Now there should be a box labeled "Template" on the screen. Find the part that says <title> &mvt:store:name; </title> and replace it with this:

<title> &mvt:store:name; :: &mvt:product:name;</title>
8. Now place this directly under that:
<meta name="Description" content="&mvt:product:descrip;">
9. Click "Update" in the lower right corner.

That's it... all done!

[d2d2d2]

I just tried this and it worked great on product pages with a simple descriptive text. The Miva Script did not work on pages with added javascript links and attributes added to the product description.

Is there any work-around for this? I would love to add Meta Tags to product pages.

[Dan - Kemper Strategic]

I just tried this and it worked great on product pages with a simple descriptive text. The Miva Script did not work on pages with added javascript links and attributes added to the product description.

Is there any work-around for this? I would love to add Meta Tags to product pages.

You can create a short description using a Custom Product Field and call it into the Meta tag instead. This gives you a clean description with no code in it.

[golftrainer]

Sorry to be a pain. I did it and it strangely showed title and description outside of my store in the upper left of screen in just text. That does not seem right.

[Luke]

What exactly did you do? Post the template code so I can see what's going wrong.

[golftrainer]

i removed it because it looked terrible. It was placing the text outside my template page.

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

Mike,

As I explained in my reply to your email - this is due to all the HTML code inside your product descriptions.

I also mentioned the same solution Dan mentioned in an earlier post regarding custom product fields.

i removed it because it looked terrible. It was placing the text outside my template page.

[yescandy]

We're using the META Master module and really like it. We can customize meta titles and descriptions easily now. We had to contact the developer for a little help figuring out how to get the titles to replace the defualt Miva titles, but now it works great. We haven't done all the pages yet, but the ones we added meta tags to look much better in Google search results now, with the title and description we specified. Even though it's unclear if the meta keywords matter anymore, we're adding them while we're at it since it's so easy with this module.

http://www.mivacentral.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?store_code=m&screen=PROD&product_code=STL-METAMASTER (http://www.mivacentral.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?store_code=m&screen=PROD&product_code=STL-METAMASTER)

[d2d2d2]

I finally got around to creating that custom field "product meta tag" for my products and it worked great.

How could I do the same for a category? A descriptive meta tag for each category. I don't see the ability to edit a custom field in a category page. Am I missing anything? Is there an alternate suggestion?

Thanks much,
Katie

[Leanne]

Latu Meta Tags Helper (http://store.latu.net/featured/LATU-METATAGS.html)