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Forum Description: Talk about ways to optimize your ProductCart store for search engines
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Topic: Meta Tag Title

Posted By: littlesmokey
Subject: Meta Tag Title
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 12:11pm

Hi Friends,

When I view a Brand page from IE or FireFox and reverse click to "view page source," I see the following:

<TITLE>Search Results - Then my Stores Company Name</TITLE>

Very frustrating when I install a good title in the brand meta tags title for that brand.

What I would like to see is

<TITLE>The the proper title tag that I generate</TITLE>

I hope you can help or give some direction.

LittleSmokey

A long time user of ProductCart since 2002.

Replies:

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 1:34pm

in the file include-metatags.asp, look for references to "scCompanyName". You can see logic in there that is adding that string to the title tag. Shouldn't be a lot of effort to disable that. Let me know if you need a hand.

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Posted By: littlesmokey
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 2:02pm

Thanks Greg. Before, I jumped on the forum, I opened the include-metatags.asp file and saw it, but I did not know if I should replace it or just empty out the csCompanyName between the quotes.

I had hope to get rid of the "Search Results -" test showing up in the meta tag titles. Can this be done in the includes-metatags.asp file?

Posted By: littlesmokey
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 2:07pm

I meant to write: I had hope to get rid of the "Search Results -" too that showing up in the meta tag titles.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 3:26pm

Hi LittleSmokey,

Here's the problem. There is a bug in PC here, and then you also want to get rid of the - CompanyName.

For the latter, open showsearchresults.asp and find the following:

pcv_DefaultTitle = pcv_DefaultTitle & " - " & scCompanyName

change that to:

' Modified to remove company name
'pcv_DefaultTitle = pcv_DefaultTitle & " - " & scCompanyName
pcv_DefaultTitle = pcv_DefaultTitle

Then, to fix the bug, open include-metatags.asp and find the following:

	if pcStrPageName = "showsearchresults.asp" then
		Title = dictLanguage.Item(Session("language")&"_ShowSearch_50") & " - " & scCompanyName
	end if

change that to:

 if pcStrPageName = "showsearchresults.asp" then
		' Modified to use brand meta tag, if available
		if len(pcv_DefaultTitle&"") > 1 then
			Title = pcv_DefaultTitle
		else
			Title = dictLanguage.Item(Session("language")&"_ShowSearch_50") & " - " & scCompanyName
		end if
	end if

Posted By: littlesmokey
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 4:09pm

It worked! Thank you Sean!

I am so glad not to bug our friends at ProductCart to make the fix.

Posted By: littlesmokey
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 4:09pm

I meant to say that was darn awesome!

Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 4:50pm

FYI, we have added this to our bug list to be fixed in the next release. Thanks for pointing it out and resolving!

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Posted By: littlesmokey
Date Posted: 29-November-2012 at 5:09pm

Early Impact

Thanks for the notice.

Little Smokey

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 30-November-2012 at 1:53am

LittleSmokey - sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. I got caught up in some extracurricular activities today as a massive storm swept through our region. It's Winter baby, and it's all coming at once, or so it seems at the moment!

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Certified ProductCart Developer

Web Design/Development/Hosting

http://tinyurl.com/5c8t4t" rel="nofollow - Add-Ons & Custom Code |

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 30-November-2012 at 2:41am

EI: Thanks for noting this.

Looking forward to 4.7 weeding out these "cucarachitas" we've been pointing out in the 4.6 code base.

Roland,

I'm hoping to get our revision of our old Meta Tag Manager re-released as the "SEO Pack" for PC in January. Thanks for noticing this "cucarachita", as I hadn't until you pointed it out.