Hard Code Category Meta Descriptions - 1.3.5

General General Questions
1

Hey everyone…



I’m wondering if there’s a way to hard code category meta descriptions and keywords.



Here’s what we’re wanting to do with the meta description:



“Buy custom <> and other quality products from ABC.com. Visit us online or call us TOLL FREE AT 1-866-721-5400.”



Here’s what we want to do with the meta keywords:



“promotional <>, custom promotional products, promotional items, corporate gifts”



I think this is possible, but I’m not sure which files to edit and how

2

Maybe I need to ask a question before I can attempt to help.



In each Category and Product you are allowed specific Meta-tag Description and Keywords.



So I’m not sure exactly what/where you want to “hard-code” these?

3

Hey WebGuy…



The products are easier b/c you can easily configure and import through a CSV.



However, with the categories, it’s too tedious to go through one by one and unless I’m really missing something, there’s no way to import category meta info.

4

Ahhh, ok…you must have a lot of categories and products.



What I would do is use phpmyadmin to navigate to cscart_category_descriptions

Export as csv or excel…



Add your specific Category descriptions and keyowrds then import back.

Does this help?

5

That’s a bit over my head, I’d have to talk with my webmaster.



What I was hoping was that I could edit one of the template files to call the specific page title into the description on the category pages.



Is that not doable?

6

I’m not going to say it isn’t doable…



As meta-tag descriptions and keyword are stored in the database as a “whole”.



What it sounds like you want to do is pull that meta-tag and then somewhere in the meta-tag itself insert the category name?

Is this correct?



This is what I’ve been able to do so far…

You can pull the Page Title into the meta-tag description and keyword, but only add it to the beginning or end of each (not in the “middle”).



This is what it would look like “view source”:







Is this kind of what you want?



I think I might be able to accomplish inserting the Page Title anywhere in the description and keywords…but it might take me a little while. Not sure it can be done.

7

I just thought of another thing you can do:



We could hard code the beginning of your description and keywords if these would NEVER change…[COLOR=“DarkRed”]see the code in “red”.[/COLOR]









So if you wanted to ALWAYS start your description with “Buy custom” (or whatever)

and your keywords with “Promotion” (or whatever)…we could make that work.



Let me know your thoughts on this.