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    Noindex/follow category links

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Thanks Brian.

    It is now showing 

     {if $SECTION_NAME=='category' AND $GLOBALS['smarty'].get.page > 1}
        <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />
        {elseif $smarty.get.page == 'all'}
        <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />
        {else}
        <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
        {/if}

    Unfortunately it has not worked :( 

    Noindex/follow category links

    in Technical Help

    Posted

     

    Hello,

    I wondered if anyone can help?  

    At the moment my website has alot of categories and therefore there are alot of links on each webpage.  I would like the links from the category page to be noindex/follow so any 'link juice' is maintained the actual content is not looked at on that page. The actual products it is linked to will still be indexed and so no worries about blocking Google. 

    The following code is in the template file.  Or, should I be looking at something else?

    {if $SECTION_NAME=='category' AND $smarty.get.page > 1}
	<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />
	{elseif $smarty.get.page == 'all'}
	<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />
	{else}
	<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
	{/if}

     

    Kind regards

    Lynn

    Google analytic tracking code

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    "I can't get the tracking code to work."

     

    Please let us know how you come to the conclusion that the tracking code is not working.

     

    Google Analytics is javascript, so the responsibility - assuming the javascript code is correct - is with the browser, with it being affected by any browser add-ons, your personal computer's firewall, etc.

     

    Does your browser have a diagnostic mode where you are shown all the page requests and responses (a 'Network' page)? If so, look for your browser to make a request to www.google-analytics.com for the real analytics code, followed by other calls to google.

    When I log into Google Analytic there is a warning message - 'Missing Tracking Code'

    Here is a fix for versions of CC5 between 5.2.11 and 5.2.14:

    https://github.com/cubecart/v5.2.14/commit/766c38d04f91d39c7b9e9a4b8391f66d4ac58714

     

    I am currently using version 5.2.5

    Google analytic tracking code

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    Yes, I am using CC5.  The code already has {literal} and {/literal}

     

    {literal}
    <script>
      (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
      (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
      m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
      })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
     
      ga('create', 'UA-********', 'auto');
      ga('send', 'pageview');
     
    </script>
     
    {/literal}

    Google analytic tracking code

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    My Google analytic code is out of date and I need to update the code.

     

    I have tried to add the code to the main.php file.  Google advised to paste it immediately before the closing </head> tag.

     

    I have tried this but it is not working.  What am I doing wrong??

    Redirect loop

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    There is a problem on my website. When you add a product to the shopping basket, a redirect loop page flashes up and then disappears. I can add one item to the basket, but I cannot add any additional items.  When I empty the shopping basket, I am unable to add anything else to the shopping basket. 
     
    If you delete the items from your shopping basket, the shopping basket at the top right of the screen still shows the items in the shopping basket and if you click on the shopping basket it advises the basket is empty. It will not let me add anything else to the shopping basket :(
     
    I have recently had some work done on the site to increase the site speed, but the developer has advised the improvements he has made have nothing to do with the problem.
     
    I wondered if anyone else has come across this problem or can help me.
     
     

    Add meta titles and decription

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Hi Brian,

     

    I have worked my way back and re-instated the original code but it is still showing 'Advance Search'.  Do you know what file I should look more closely at???

     

    The category pages have advance search (see below) instead of products

    Advanced Search

     

    Keywords *
    Price Range -   Â±5%
    In Stock
    Featured Products Only

    Add meta titles and decription

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Hi Brian,

     

    I don't know if I have done something wrong.  I followed all of the instructions.  But, when I have run a report on screaming frog the Search Engine meta information that I have entered has overwritten all of the category meta information. 

     

    Any ideas?

    Will changed to product titles alter the url?

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Hi Brian,

     

    Thank you, that has fixed the problem :)

     

    I completely agree with your comment:

     

    Note: It would be interesting if CubeCart, when asking if the SEO Path should be rebuilt or when the Custom SEO Path is changed, would automatically insert a Redirect statement in the .htaccess file.

     

    You are a star as usual :yeahhh:

    Will changed to product titles alter the url?

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Hi Brian,

     

    Thank you for your reply.

     

    There has not been a dialog window that asks to confirm if the seo_path should be updated. 

     

    There are current products on the website and there is a slight variation of the url which is 302 redirected to the homepage. 

     

    Current URL: http://www.soledivas.co.uk/evening-shoes/fay-blue-satin-peep-toe-shoes.html

    302 URL:  http://www.soledivas.co.uk/evening-shoes/fay-blue-satin-peep-toe-shoe.html     302 redirected to http://www.soledivas.co.uk/index.php

     

    I have no idea how the url has changed or why they are 302 redirected

    Add meta titles and decription

    in Technical Help

    Posted

     

    Having code to determine which particular page of results, including the entire list (page=all), would be interesting to solve, but I have to ask, "Why?"

     

    What would be the purpose of having a distinct set of meta keywords and meta description (which isn't seen by the customer), and a specific browser title for pages that show the entire list?

     

    Being an SEO atheist, I have no opinion of whether or not it's a good idea for robots to be scanning all the pages of a multi-page list, then also scan the page with the complete list.

     

    Interesting topic. In google webmaster tools there is an HTML Improvement section and Google points out that each page has the same title tag

     

    e.g. 

     

    widgets.html

    widgets.html?page=2

    widgets.html?page=3

    widgets.html?page=all

     

    along with the message

     

    Your title provides users and search engines with useful information about your site. Text contained in title tags can appear in search results pages, and relevant, descriptive text is more likely to be clicked on. We recommend reviewing the list and updating the title tags wherever possible. Same errors are flagged in Bing.

     

    Not sure what impact it has on the search results but it is flagged as something to look at. Maybe it is classed as duplicate content.

     

    On our google search results the widgets.html?page=all pages always rank higher than the others.

     

    I've checked one of the pages in the search results e.g. widgets.html?page=3 and the title appears as 3 - Widgets in the search results but looking at the html the title is just Widgets the same as all the others. Not sure if google put the 3 - in or if its a cubecart thing. If it is google adding the 3 - etc then it looks like they are trying to differentiate between the various pages.

     

    I would think that the most important page to be indexed would be the widgets.html?page=all but this only kicks in if there are multiple pages so a category with maybe on 2 or 3 products wont have a widgets.html?page=all to index.

     

    Ideally I would think that only the widgets.html should be indexed if there aren't any subsequent pages and only the widgets.html?page=all if there are several pages.

     

    I have looked at some other stores and they all appear to have the same title on multiple pages.

     

    One way to get around this if there arent too many multiple page categories is to increase the number of products per page so if one category has 29 products in it and you are only showing 10 per page increasing the products per page to 30 would solve it but obviously not a fix for all stores. Another way would be to break the categories down into sub categories.

     

    I added a no index meta tag to page 2,3..... This solved the duplicate content/meta data.

     

    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />

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