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    Posted: 18-April-2008 at 10:41am
Anybody know if there is a way to change the title bar on the viewcategories.asp page so that it does not say root?
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I took a look at your site & see what you mean.

The title is generated in :
pc/include-metatags.asp &  has some default values coded, but then builds it & the metatags dynamically if possible.
I'm surprised it says root instead of "Product Cart Shopping Software" - or something more specific.
Root is the name of the very top level of the categories so I guess that's where it's coming from. HTH
 


Edited by Hamish - 18-April-2008 at 11:51am
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Originally posted by Hamish Hamish wrote:

I took a look at your site & see what you mean.

The title is generated in :
pc/include-metatags.asp &  has some default values coded, but then builds it & the metatags dynamically if possible.
I'm surprised it says root instead of "Product Cart Shopping Software" - or something more specific.
Root is the name of the very top level of the categories so I guess that's where it's coming from. HTH
 

Sure would like to know how to change it so that my title is more seo friendly.
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Open the file /pc/include-metatags.asp and find this section and edit the 3 specified lines:

' ************************************************************ ******************
' Edit the content for the following constants
' ************************************************************ ******************

' The following is used as the page title when the page that is being loaded is not
' a product or category page. If it is a product or category page, the page title is
' the product name and category name respectively. Replace the ProductCart title
' shown below with your own.
Const DefaultTitle = "ProductCart shopping cart software"

' The following is used as the "Content" for the default "Keywords" meta tag. When the
' page is a product or category page, the product or category names are also added to
' the keywords. Replace the following keywords with your own.
Const DefaultKeywords = "shopping cart software, ecommerce software, asp shopping cart, shopping carts, ecommerce solutions, e-commerce, ProductCart, Early Impact"

' The following is used as the "Content" for the default "Description" meta tag. When the
' page is a product or category page, the product or category descriptions replace the
' default category description.
Const DefaultDescription = "We offer shopping cart software to run ecommerce stores. Our shopping carts are used by businesses to build and manage an online storefront."
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Greg,

editing the /pc/include-metatags.asp doesn't take care of the issue.

I believe how the include works is that it pulls the "category name" and inserts it into the title bar.  Which works perfectly when you are in 1 category.  The problem is that the "main category" that holds all of the categories is named root.

So when you access the viewcategories.asp page the "category" name being called is root.

Is there a way to change root to another name, such as Categories or to hard code it?
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Oh, ok. I see that now. I'm so accustomed to newbies not updating the default meta tags I thought that's what he was referring to.

My guess is that the store has "root" as the name of a category and just needs to be changed to something else.
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Sorry guys.  Maybe I should have been more specific.  I have about 30 level 2 categories in my cart.  They are all part of the level one category which product cart shows as "Category Name: Top Level Category (Root) which viewing ManageCategories.asp.  I want to know if the name root can be changed to something relevant to my search terms so when you browse by category in the cart my title has relevant words in in for SEO.

Edited by ammonihah - 18-April-2008 at 3:43pm
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I think you do this in the language.asp file in /includes.

This is how you do it if you mean as I have here where my root category is 'Our Music':

http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/Folk_community/pc/viewCa tegories.asp?idCategory=77

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Looked in Languages.asp... Nothing there.  I think it would have to be in a config file or the database itself.  Still searching.
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I think I am right on this.  It is this line within languages.asp:

dictLanguage.Add "english_viewCat_P_2", "<a href='viewCategories.asp'>Our Music</a>: "

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