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RayGon
Starting Member
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 Posted - July 08 2006 : 23:40:09
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Alright so 6.0 has dynamic keywords you can select for each product... but not for categories. the meta "keywords" for category pages is simply the category title.
Is there a way (or has it been done) where you can set the keywords for each category. For example category 3 would have keywords "dog food, dog houses, dog supplies" and then category 4 have keywords "cat food, cat houses, cat supplies".
Basically I want meta keywords for categories to be handled as they are for products.
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - July 09 2006 : 03:56:09
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there are lots of other elements related to the tags/titles too (such as being able to specify those elements for static asp pages, such as aboutus.asp or other static pages)
also there's the question of splitting out the title, meta-name, and keywords into totally seperate sources while also still allowing a fall-through if one of those values isn't set.
also there's the question of creating default values for the tags/keywords when they're not found.
we've done all these things in various places, but we've never meshed them all together into one handy/single thing.
if anyone else wants all these aspects then feel free to post here.
one of those aspects would be simple/quick, but a full solution is bigger, hence why we reckon it'd be a good idea to put all the logic into an addon if there's a market for it.
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons |
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jmccann
VP-CART New User
United Kingdom
131 Posts |
Posted - July 17 2006 : 07:00:32
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| I would also like to Dynamic Meta Tags generated for the Content Pages. At the moment it is the same set for all of the pages. |
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support
Administrator
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Posted - July 17 2006 : 19:50:13
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Hi,
The dynamic keywords, titles and description functionality was updated in VPASP 6.08a.
You can now define specific keywords for each content page by placing the relevant keywords in the "other1" field. The dynamic title is taken from the message field, and the description meta tag is taken from the message2 field.
In regards to the category meta keywords being the same as the category title, if you are not using the xdisplaycategoryfiles functionality, you could potentially use the catextra field to store your category keywords and then modify the SetupdynamicCategory subroutine in shopheaders.asp to look in this field for the keywords rather than the catdescription field.
You would need to modify line 110:
setsess "Dynamickeywords",Removehtmlheaders(rs("catdescription"), "<br>")
to
setsess "Dynamickeywords",Removehtmlheaders(rs("catextra"), "<br>")
Alternatively you could add a new keywords field to this table and store the details in that.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Michael
VPASP SUPPORT
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Mark Priest
VP-CART Expert
United Kingdom
580 Posts |
Posted - August 06 2006 : 21:11:41
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Thanks support, this is great!!
Regards,
Mark |
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Mark Priest
VP-CART Expert
United Kingdom
580 Posts |
Posted - August 06 2006 : 21:29:39
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One extra thing.
I can now dynamically pull the description and the keywords for each category, but how can I go about adding a new field to the category page where i can store extra info for the dynamic title?
Regards,
Mark |
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Mark Priest
VP-CART Expert
United Kingdom
580 Posts |
Posted - August 09 2006 : 03:47:59
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Can anyone help with this?
Regards,
Mark |
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ironhawker
VP-CART Super User
USA
260 Posts |
Posted - May 09 2007 : 03:06:40
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Michael said.. Alternatively you could add a new keywords field to this table and store the details in that.
Why wont VPAsp Grab the Keywords from the Keywords field already there? It seems like that should be the default.
The object is to control the parsing into the product page to have it say something other than Meta Description="" and meta keywords=""
Where is the FAQ on this???
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - May 09 2007 : 03:37:04
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we're about to release a new keyword tool addon related to all this, where you can define "manual" keywords on categories (and products), and then have the tool go through the branches of the categories, and create "generated" keywords on categories, and then go through the categories/products and create "generated" keywords on the products (ie take the relevant category keywords and put them onto the corresponding products). It'll also let you treat your category descriptions as keywords and turn them into keyword-acceptable format as part of the keyword generation.
the tool will let you specify any number of product columns you want as your keyword source (including the relevant "generated" category ones), in any order. ie you can say "source from columnx first, then add columny, then add columnz" etc etc (and then it'll clean-up the constructed values and eliminate any duplicates before posting them to the real keywords column). It can also be run in test mode so that you can experiment with the settings without saving the data.
All that stuff is done via admin, ie you generate your keywords periodically by pressing the button on the tool screen. Having all that logic applied at browse time would slow the site down too much.
the you just reference the "generated" keywords as normal in your headers/trailers etc, by default the "generated" keywords will be the same as your current keywords columns. (the pre-install part of the tool swaps them around so that your current keywords get copied into the "manual" keywords columns, and they can then be used as one of your keyword sources when generating the keywords.
it's a really cool thing, with loads of options; I'll post here when it's all released.
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons |
Edited by - devshb on May 09 2007 04:28:30 |
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stone5150
VP-CART New User
USA
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devshb
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United Kingdom
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