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Google Product Categories (Google Base)

Posted on: 1st Nov 2011 By: Robert Kent 5 Comments
Google Product Categories (Google Base)

With the recent changes to the Google Base product search causing issues with many of the google base implementations with Magento I’ve updated the Products In Google post with our newest script which should keep your google shopping results running for a little while longer. One aspect that has not been covered however is the [...]

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Optimised Magento Page Titles

Posted on: 3rd Aug 2011 By: Adam Moss 10 Comments
Optimised Magento Page Titles

Magento gives you the opportunity to add a suffix (or prefix) to any of your Magento page titles via the admin configuration. My only problem with this is that it will append this suffix on every occasion, even when you already have a large page title. For those of you familiar with standard SEO requirements [...]

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Improving search results in Magento

Posted on: 25th Feb 2011 By: Ben McManus 6 Comments
Improving search results in Magento

Magento’s search functionality is pretty epic straight out of the box. Like a lot of thing’s in life, some fine tuning is required. When you login to your Admin Panel in the bottom left you will see ‘Top 5 Search Terms’. The most popular search term’s for your shop are logged and ranked here. If [...]

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Magento Robots.txt & SEO

Posted on: 15th Nov 2010 By: Robert Kent 18 Comments
Magento Robots.txt & SEO

Today I’m going to talk about robots.txt files and their impact on a Magento Website. Thanks to a current customer of ours who stumbled across a robots.txt thread in the magento forums we have the basis for a comprehensive robots.txt file. First, a little history. Imagine your website as a stately manor – a bit [...]

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301 Redirect Old Product URL’s

Posted on: 2nd Nov 2010 By: Robert Kent 1 Comment
301 Redirect Old Product URL’s

Sometimes you may find that you can get away with upgrading to a magento platform and then forgetting about your old links and urls. However you would be throwing away valuable SEO Pagerank and backlinks. It is possible in some cases to redirect your old links to your new ones but only if your old [...]

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