How do I set up metatags for my site, or per-product for search engines to find?

Print Save to list Subscribe Rate Article Helpful Not Helpful Zen Cart is built with a feature to have separate meta tags for each Category and Products -- separate from the ones on general pages. Categories To define meta tags for a Category, go to the Admin -> Catalog -> Categories/Products once you're there..click on the meta tag icon (the last one to the right for any given category) and set your content. Note: A meta tag must contain keywords and description or it is not considered complete, and will be ignored. Products If you want to define meta tags for individual Products, you will navigate to that product and click on the meta tag icon to define it. Note: there are custom settings in Product Types so if you don't want, for example, products_price in the title ... you can globably set the defaults for 1 or all product types. Common Site-Wide To define site-wide tags such as charset, keywords and description, go to includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/meta_tags.php and edit that file for keywords, site title, site tagline and site description. *NOTE:*  The references to "YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME" mean that you should use the name of the folder of your custom template that you've built for your site. Custom Site-Wide For meta tags not covered by the previous paragraph, copy the includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php file to your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/common/ folder. Open it up and add your own meta tag to those already there by default. TIPS Search engines will index all of your pages ... Build your pages to have proper text, meaning significant text, to increase their content value for search engines ... While meta tags are helpful, they are not the end all and be all ... The content is more significant ... the content relative to the meta tags is significant ... Notice the custom meta tags for each Category and Product ... Notice the categories_description and products_description ... these are highly important ... Your descriptions need to be content-rich and keyword-rich. Lack of content is the major issue if your site is not getting good search engine rankings.

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