OK, now you are selling your products on the Internet with a Soholaunch website. However, have you ever wondered why your Soholaunch shopping cart catalogue items are not “visible” (much less “favorably ranked”) in search engine listings?
Now, let’s do a little “fact-finding” exercise: Go to Google and type in "site: yourdomain.com" and hit “search.” You will obviously see your pages being listed. Now click on “Advanced Search”, then increase the default “10 results” to “100 results” on the upper right. Click on “Google Search” button.
By now you will have all your indexed pages shown, but wait a minute! You see this verbiage on the bottom of the list:
In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the xx already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
Take Google’s offer and click on “can repeat the search…” Well, what you will see depends…
They are look the same, ain’t they? If you mouse over one of them, you will see it is linked to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=163&=SID, which happens to be one of the items in your catalogue! (I think we begin to see what problems we have…)
Or
Again, they all look the same!
No wonder you are having a tough time to get your catalogue items ranked favorably by search engines!
“Shopping Cart Catalogue Search Engine Optimizer” turbo-charges your search engine catalogue item listings for you! It transforms these listing by fixing up Title, Description, and Keyword meta-tags! Here is how it works:
For a given item in your shopping cart catalogue,
The item’s “Part Name (Title)” goes to “Title” meta-tag;
Its “Description” goes to “Description” meta-tag;
Its “Searchable Keywords” get added to “Keyword” meta-tag.
With this plug-in, your catalogue items will be very well represented in search engine listings! You job now is to make good titles, descriptions and keywords for your items and, before long, you will see visitors flocking to your site because they have found what they are looking for!
Make sure that you are running 4.9.2 r8 or later.
This add-on will not function properly on any version earilier than 4.9.2 r8.
How to find out what version you're running
Log-in to manage your website with Pro Edition (i.e. http://example.com/sohoadmin)
and look in the bottom right corner of the admin tool window (ie. in the footer).
How to update your version
If you're running v4.8.x or earlier than you've got to first update to v4.9 via Fantastico.
Once you're on v4.9 you can update to the latest build using v4.9's built-in Software Updates feature (Main Menu > Webmaster > Software Updates).
This plugin for Product SEO is exactly what I wanted. Now Google and other search engines will find my xml site map a lot more useful and there are no more duplicate pages. Works alongside another plugin "SEO Friendly Categories" very well.
Money well spent by , Oct 12th, 2007
this is really a good plugin . Now my products are ranked on the first pages of search engines.
Thank you
by , Nov 16th, 2012