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Google Issues

Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:29 am
by sbproduction
Hi i dont know whether i am just being dumb but my site http://www.livelifesports.co.uk basically doesnt have a description and is very hard to find on google unless you type in the actual web address. I have got a meta tag description that i have recently put in but it hasnt come up on google and its been there for a few weeks. Is there anything im missing?

Also i would ideally like people to be able to search for me in google and when they see my site in the search engine for it not just to have a description but to have some headings underneath like some of the big companies do. See example below
HP
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hp&ie= ... =firefox-a

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:29 am
by rph

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:34 pm
by uksitebuilder
Having Links under your site name in the search results will come with time if Google deems your site important enough.

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:42 am
by sbproduction
I have added as much detail as possible and yet my site still isnt coming up in google when i search for it. Please can i have a bit of help or am i painly just being stupid or does it take time?

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:48 am
by uksitebuilder

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:59 am
by dony_b
sbproduction wrote:Hi i dont know whether i am just being dumb but my site http://www.livelifesports.co.uk basically doesnt have a description and is very hard to find on google unless you type in the actual web address. I have got a meta tag description that i have recently put in but it hasnt come up on google and its been there for a few weeks. Is there anything im missing?

Also i would ideally like people to be able to search for me in google and when they see my site in the search engine for it not just to have a description but to have some headings underneath like some of the big companies do. See example below
HP
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hp&ie= ... =firefox-a
To get the sitelinks you need to get some backlinks and also Google gives weight to older domain names so you will probably have to wait a little bit. And nowdays is even harder especially for newly registered domains.

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:16 am
by sbproduction
What i dont understand is why do you have to put site:www.livelifesports.co.uk as no one is going to type that into google when they are looking for what i stock.

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:22 am
by uksitebuilder
Sorry, I was merely showing you that you had many products indexed with that link.

I have viewed the source of your categories and products pages and there is no META Description tag.

This could be a fault with your template.

Could you please tell us what version of OC your store is using.

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:25 am
by sbproduction
Version 1.4.9.3

Is there a module that will add in meta tags and discriptions in those categories and products?

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:32 am
by uksitebuilder
Just looking at the code for 1.4.9.3 (i am not familiar with 1.4.x)

I see there are fields for META Description for both categories and products.

Are you entering these when editing the categories and products ?

If so, it looks like your template may be the problem for which you will need to contact the developer of the theme.

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:35 am
by sbproduction
im not entering them. it would take ages is there a module that does it automatically? By the way i appreciate all your help

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:51 am
by uksitebuilder
Cant say I've found one.

Have a gander at our Exntension store.

It would probably need a function creating that grabs the product description and for categories the category description.

Truncates it to 255 characters max or the nearest full-stop (period) or space before the 255th character and the inserts that into the meta description field on insert or update.

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:56 am
by sbproduction
Dont know if im missing it but whats the extension link and will it do what i need it to?

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:59 am
by uksitebuilder
Top of this site - Big Bold white letters ;)

Here's a link http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... /extension

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:03 am
by sbproduction
haha i know that but whats the extension called

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:06 am
by uksitebuilder
Cant say I've found one.

Have a gander at our Exntension store.
try searching for META

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:51 pm
by sbproduction
Doesnt seem to be anything in there unless im missing it

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:31 pm
by uksitebuilder
This should do the trick

open: catalog/controller/product/category.php

find

Code: Select all

$this->document->description = $category_info['meta_description'];
change to

Code: Select all

$this->document->description = substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($category_info['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')),0,255);
open: catalog/controller/product/product.php

find:

Code: Select all

$this->document->description = $product_info['meta_description'];
change to:

Code: Select all

$this->document->description = substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($product_info['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')),0,255);

Re: Google Issues

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:00 pm
by sbproduction
Will this then add the descriptions in automatically?

Google Issues

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:02 pm
by uksitebuilder
It doesnt add them in the fields in admin

It pulls the Meta description from the description field on the frontend only

Making the meta description field in admin for categories and products obsolete