SEO Checks

[tessthepup]

I am just running through a few basic changes to try and improve on seo after running an online check and thought it would be good to start a topic on what I am doing to try and improve my score.

First of all meta title.

I see my meta title as

<title>nuVitamins</title>

I presume this title is being pulled in from admin>my store>store name

How/where do I add extra info that will not reflect anywhere else i.e.

<title>Health Supplements Online / Packed with Natural Ingredients | nuVitamins</title>

is there an admin setting I am failing to see or a language file that needs editing?

[ecartz]

Line 32 of templates/default/includes/components/template_top.php:

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<title><?= htmlspecialchars($Template->get_title()) ?></title>

The default value for that is set by line 65 of includes/classes/application.php:

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      Guarantor::ensure_global('Template')->set_title(TITLE);

which leads to line 36 of includes/languages/english.php:

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const TITLE = STORE_NAME;

Beyond that, some pages set the title to custom values. E.g. the product info page, the index page for a category or manufacturer, or the specials page. This can be done by a header tag module. In the case of the specials page, it also requires defining META_SEO_TITLE in the page's language file.

Anyway, to answer your original question, edit the title in english.php to change it. It's set to the STORE_NAME for convenience. Replace it or add to it as you wish.

[heatherbell]

is there an admin setting I am failing to see or a language file that needs editing?

Meta SEO Title and Meta SEO Description for Product, Category and Manufacturer are defined when you edit them in admin>Catalog.
However, for pages such as index.php (which I think you are referring to) and specials.php, they are defined in their language files e.g. https://github.com/CE-PhoenixCart/Phoen ... ex.php#L25

Make sure you install
admin>Modules>Header Tags>
SEO Pages
Product SEO
Category SEO
Manufacturer SEO

So to answer your question, go to admin>Tools>Define languages>index.php
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define('META_SEO_TITLE', 'Index Page Title');

to

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define('META_SEO_TITLE', 'Health Supplements Online / Packed with Natural Ingredients');

Install admin>Modules>Header Tags>SEO Pages

META_SEO_TITLE will then be prepended to your STORE_NAME on your index.php page (also shown in the Chrome browser tab) exactly how you wanted i.e.

Health Supplements Online / Packed with Natural Ingredients | nuVitamins

See https://phoenixcart.org/phoenixcartwiki ... timisation

[tessthepup]

Thank you to ecartz and heatherbell for the info.

After a few more changes of description I now have perfectly optimised meta title and meta description.

This evenings question is a 2 part one (ref attached image)

Part 1 - The Canonical URL

I presume this is because of the session id, is there anyway to get this to pass?

Part 2 - One or more of the specified languages are not ISO standard (en, en-us, de, etc.)

I only have the english language and have no idea actually what this means?

[ecartz]

I presume this is because of the session id, is there any way to get this to pass?

What are you using to generate the canonical link? I just tried installing the canonical header tag module on my test site, and it correctly generates the link without a session ID.

I only have the english language and have no idea actually what this means?

Perhaps it wants it set in the HTML_PARAMS, e.g. for German: https://github.com/cupidare/PhoenixCart ... an.php#L30

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const HTML_PARAMS = ' dir="ltr" lang="de"';

Don't forget to include a space at the beginning of the string. Also, you may want the language to be en-GB (rather than just en). For German, the language is de (i.e. de is the thing that you want to replace in that line).

[tessthepup]

What are you using to generate the canonical link? I just tried installing the canonical header tag module on my test site, and it correctly generates the link without a session ID.

I was using the header tag module that came with the Ultimate SEO Urls addon, removed that and installed the stock one and it worked

Edit - I spoke to soon.

The SEO analysis says the link points to

https://nuvitamins.co.uk/index.php

and then this below

The specified canonical link points to a different page.

I think it might have something to do with .htaccess but not sure

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## BEGIN USU URL rewrite rules ##
## USU Version: 3.0.4 ##
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9/-]+)-c-([0-9_]+).html$ index.php [NC,L,QSA]
  RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9/-]+)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index.php [NC,L,QSA]
  RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9/-]+)-p-([0-9]+).html$ product_info.php [NC,L,QSA]
  RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9/-]+)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ info.php [NC,L,QSA]
  ## For rewrite, path_rewrite
  RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9/-]+)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ ext/modules/content/reviews/write.php [NC,L,QSA]
  ## For standard, path_standard
  RewriteRule ^write.php/([a-z0-9/-]+)-pr-([0-9]+) ext/modules/content/reviews/write.php [NC,L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Perhaps it wants it set in the HTML_PARAMS, e.g. for German: https://github.com/cupidare/PhoenixCart ... an.php#L30

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const HTML_PARAMS = ' dir="ltr" lang="de"';

Don't forget to include a space at the beginning of the string. Also, you may want the language to be en-GB (rather than just en). For German, the language is de (i.e. de is the thing that you want to replace in that line).

Strange one this as my line was this

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const HTML_PARAMS = '';

changed it to

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const HTML_PARAMS = ' dir="ltr" lang="en"';

and it works, happy days.

on to the next task.............

[heatherbell]

Ultimate SEO Urls addon

Your choice but note that the addon has been unsupported for quite a while.

[ecartz]

You could try changing line 35 of ht_canonical.php from

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          return $GLOBALS['Linker']->build('index.php', [], false);

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          return $GLOBALS['Linker']->build('', [], false);

[Omar_one]

Ultimate SEO Urls addon

Your choice but note that the addon has been unsupported for quite a while.

hope someone will support it and update it

[tessthepup]

You could try changing line 35 of ht_canonical.php from

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          return $GLOBALS['Linker']->build('index.php', [], false);

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          return $GLOBALS['Linker']->build('', [], false);

That did the trick, thank you