Default Category Title Tag Structure

By default CS Cart lists the Titles of Categories with breadcrumbs of the upper categories ie:

Manufacturer :: Nauticam :: Nauticam Underwater Camera Housings :: Nauticam DSLR Camera Underwater Housing
This doesn't always give a very good result on Google.

If I type in "Nauticam DSLR Camera Underwater Housing" in the meta title field on each category I can get rid of the breadcrumbs.

But with a lot of categories, that's teadious. Is there a global setting somewhere?

The KB just shows editing it to a common default title and desribtion. I don't see anywhere int he SEO add-on that there's a way to change the way it works...??

Anyone know?

TIA,
Jack

Each category has the Page title setting on the Meta data section. If it is empty, the system generates title from breadcrumbs

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Each category has the Page title setting on the Meta data section. If it is empty, the system generates title from breadcrumbs

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What I want to know if there's a way to change that default. It's poor SEO.



Jack

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What I want to know if there's a way to change that default. It's poor SEO.



Jack

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Why is it poor SEO? It gives you total control of what you want to appear in the page title.



How many categories do you have?

It's poor SEO because when people search for a brand or general item they get a return like this; say “Nauticam DSLR Housing”:

Manufacturer :: Nauticam :: Nauticam Underwater Camera Housings :: Nauticam DSLR Camera Underwater Housing



Instead of:

Nauticam DSLR Camera Underwater Housing



And we're ranked much lower than those who do.



We have a lot of categories. It's going to be a tedious change. It should be able to be set up in the SEO add-on or someplace.



Jack

How many is “a lot”? 50? 1,000?



Putting the breadcrumbs in there automatically is much better than leaving them blank. And you are given the option of granular control of the page title if you want it. Yes, it's a lot of manual work but that's what makes you better than the competition.

If you still want to change default behavior, please open the design\themes\YOUR_THEME\templates\index.tpl file and replace:



{if $page_title}
{$page_title}
{else}




with



{if $page_title}
{$page_title}
{elseif $category_data.category}
{$category_data.category}
{else}




Hope this will help to solve your issue

Thanks!

You are welcome!

How many is "a lot"? 50? 1,000?

Putting the breadcrumbs in there automatically is much better than leaving them blank. And you are given the option of granular control of the page title if you want it. Yes, it's a lot of manual work but that's what makes you better than the competition.

I have the same problem:

JackConnick is right because if you check all the link in the website whit a tool for exemple alexa.com - it get a lot of page title very long because the cscart put the title name in the category and subcategory, so you have a title like this:

Cartuse si Tonere :: Cartuse si Tonere Originale :: Cartuse :: Cartuse XEROX :: 2nd BTR Assembly (WC7500/7400), Xerox Workcenter 7425

And is not ok.

And not the title page is the problem, the problem is that in the title page the cscart put the category and subcategory.. why do this i really dont now

If you still want to change default behavior, please open the design\themes\YOUR_THEME\templates\index.tpl file and replace:

{if $page_title}
    {$page_title}
{else}
with

{if $page_title}
    {$page_title}
{elseif $category_data.category}
    {$category_data.category}
{else}
Hope this will help to solve your issue

Hello

I did this and is the same.

Any help?

Thx

Hello

I did this and is the same.

Any help?

Thx

Start from deleting the var/cache directory

I resolve the problem whit seo ultimate...addon

You have any ideea is i have the same H2 in all the site if is a problem... the "all category" is h2 in my website

Go to Design -> Layouts -> Categories and check wrapper for the Main content block

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Go to Design -> Layouts -> Categories and check wrapper for the Main content block

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Unfortunately i dont have this option in mt wrapper:

Look:

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Unfortunately i dont have this option in mt wrapper:

Look:

http://prntscr.com/ii7s7b

In this case contact theme developer with this question since h1 and h2 tags are processed by wrappers

In this case contact theme developer with this question since h1 and h2 tags are processed by wrappers

I will try.

I was thinking that is a code that i have to put easy.

I was thinking

:)