Add-on - Advanced meta tags and placeholders

Adds possibility to generate meta tags and headers for category, product and content pages by extended templates with placeholders support.

$50.00
Included support: 20 points
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CS-Cart gives the administrator complete freedom to manage SEO for pages, but sometimes it is required to quickly configure the generation of meta tags with special logic (often after SEO audits). There are several similar modules on the CS-Cart marketplace, that allow you to do this, but we offer a something extended version, using which, you will be able to achieve the highest clickability rates of your links in search results (which is ... a huge plus to search positions in a short time after implementation).

Features shortly:

  1. The ability to exclude the meta tag "Keywords" on all pages of the site (a frequent requirement after a series of audits from major studios)
  2. Automatic generation of meta tags for category pages, brands, products, content pages for created templates with placeholders support (important variables in the system, that can be used in template)
  3. The ability to determine in addon settings, what to do with the meta tags of each CS-Cart entity: 1) do not override, 2) override if they are not filled 3) override all


Optimization of page headers, meta tags automatic generation by templates:

Meta tag templates for category pages

support the following placeholders:

  • [category_name] - category name
  • [category_parent_name] - category parent name
  • [category_path] - category path
  • [category_path_reverse] - reverse category path
  • [min_price] - minimal product price in this category
  • [max_price] - maximal product price in this category
  • [total_products] - total products count


Meta tag templates for brands pages

support the following placeholders:

  • [brand] - feature variant name
  • [min_price] - minimal product price in this category
  • [max_price] - maximal product price in this category
  • [total_products] - total products count

Meta tag templates for product pages

support the following placeholders:

  • [product] - product name
  • [product_category] - product category name
  • [product_price] - product price
  • [product_brand] - product brand
  • [product_code] - product sku
  • [product_category_path] - product category path
  • [product_category_path_reverse] - reverse product category path

Meta tag templates for content pages

support the following placeholders:

  • [page] - page name
  • [page_parent] - page parent name
  • [page_path] - page path
  • [page_path_reverse] - reverse page path

Other advantages:

  • Possibility to redefine the standard separator for CS-Cart
  • Does not create a load for system
  • Possibility to change letter case for placeholders (lowercase, uppercase and first capital)
  • Works with Custom H1 header for category page addon
  • Placeholders work on objects level (you can use it on meta tags field for any category or product)

Recommendations :

  • Show in the page headings for categories the number of available products in the list and the price interval (the minimum price and the maximum price of available products) - this will make your snippets the most clickable + dynamic (frequent re-indexing of pages)
  • Make your search snippets as logical as possible (smart template) - hide from the search engine a pattern, make them as "humane"
  • Do not make headers and meta tags larger in size, than search standards recommended.
  • Experiment, developing the most "working" variants of templates (achieve maximum CTR)


CS-Cart type:
  • CS-Cart Store Builder Free
  • CS-Cart Store Builder Plus
  • CS-Cart Store Builder Ultimate
  • CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Standard
  • CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Plus
  • CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Ultimate
Functionality purpose:
  • SEO
СS-Cart version compatibility:
  • 4.4.1
  • 4.4.2
  • 4.4.3
  • 4.5.1
  • 4.5.2
  • 4.6.1
  • 4.6.2
  • 4.6.3
  • 4.7.1
  • 4.7.2
  • 4.7.3
  • 4.7.4
  • 4.8.1
  • 4.8.2
  • 4.9.1
  • 4.9.2
  • 4.9.3
  • 4.10.1
  • 4.10.2
  • 4.10.3
  • 4.10.4
  • 4.11.1
  • 4.11.2
  • 4.11.3
  • 4.11.4
  • 4.11.5
  • 4.12.1
  • 4.12.2
  • 4.13.1
  • 4.13.2
  • 4.13.3
  • 4.14.1
  • 4.14.2
  • 4.14.3
  • 4.15.1
  • 4.15.2
  • 4.16.1
  • 4.16.2
  • 4.17.1
  • 4.17.2
  • 4.18.1
  • 4.18.2
Enabled update period:
  • 6 months (a paid renewal is available upon expiration)
Спасибо ребята за труды! Отличный модуль, очень сильно помогли, за пару часов все настроил! Рекомендую.
Хороший модуль, полезный. Экономит кучу времени. Но есть вопрос, а плейсхолдеры можно использовать только в мета тегах или в в любом месте на странице товара или категории? А то не плохо было бы использовать плейсхолдеры мин цены например или бренд
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Support includes:
  • Author's answers to the technical questions of the work of the solution
  • Help in solving bugs and problems
  • Release of versions, that support new versions of CS-Cart as well as fixing bugs and issues
Support does not include:
  • Customization services
  • Installation services
  • Adaptation services for working with third-party solutions and modules
  • Update services

 

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A complete list of technical support conditions look here

Release #17
v2.3.0 from 06-Dec-2022
New features and improvements:
[+] Added a new setting "Enable" to the template management. This setting allows to enable or disable the template for a specific tag.
[+] Added forced selection of UTF-8 coding when processing placeholders (error could occur under certain configurations of a server).
Release #16
v2.2.3 from 21-Dec-2021
Bug fixes:
[!] W3C validator displayed a warning message when excluding meta tag "keywords".
[!] "Export to Yandex.Market" add-on. On the product page placeholders of feature values didn't count values "Unit measure (YML)". Fixed.
Release #15
v2.2.2 from 16-Sep-2021
Bug fixes:
[!] "AB: Custom H1 PRO" add-on. When using customer header that was generated with the use of category placeholders in the template of meta tags, placeholders in meta tags didn't work. Fixed.
Release #14
v2.2.1 from 28-May-2021
Bug fixes:
[!] The "Products additional patterns" weren't working. Fixed.
Release #13
v2.2.0 from 28-May-2021
New features and improvements:
[+] "SEO" add-on. Added tooltips for standard meta-tags fields ("Page title", "Meta description" "Meta keywords") for categories, products, pages and brands, on pages of editing corresponded objects, about possibility to use placeholders.
[+] Added variation of placeholders "The first letter is lowercase others as is".
[+] Added field "Alternative name" for categories, products, pages and brands, on pages of editing corresponded objects, with addition of corresponded placeholders.

Bug fixes:
[!] If there was a meta description in the category and selected option "Redefine empty" for products (located on the page "Patterns manageme" → "Products" tab), the category description was displayed on the product page with an empty meta description. Fixed.
Release #12
v2.1.0 from 23-Dec-2020
New features and improvements:
[+] Added compatibility with CS-Cart 4.12.1.

Bug fixes:
[!] Placeholders of the feature values were not applied in some cases. Fixed.
Release #11
v2.0.0 from 13-Aug-2020
Attention!
If you use the "AB: Custom H1 header PRO" add-on, then you should upgrade the add-on to version v1.9.1.
If you use the "SEO pages for filters" add-on, then you should upgrade the add-on to version v7.3.0.
If you use the "Multiple descriptions + FAQ (with JSON-LD rich snippets)" add-on, then you should upgrade the add-on to version v3.2.0.

New features and improvements:
[+] Added ability to integrate with other add-ons be schema implementation. Read more in documentation.
[+] Added placeholder [storefront] - the name of the storefront.
[+] Added placeholders [currency] and [currency_nohtml] - active currency symbol.
[+] Added Ukrainian language.
[+] Multi-Vendor. Added placeholder of vendor's name on product page.
[+] Multi-Vendor. Added management of meta tags of vendor store page.
[+] Multi-Vendor. Added Multi-Vendor Ultimate support.
[+] Added Smarty-hook `ab__extended_metadata:placeholders` to the template of placeholders list.
[+] Added Smarty-hook `ab__extended_metadata:setting_value" to the template of each setting of meta tags pattern.
[+] Added Smarty-hook `ab__extended_metadata:settings_tab_extra` to the template of settings tab of meta tags pattern.
[+] Added PHP-hook `ab__emd_replace_placeholders_pattern`, which allows you to influence the regular expression pattern when searching for a placeholder.
[+] Added PHP-hook `ab__emd_replace_placeholders_pattern`, which allows you to create custom types of placeholders.

Functionality changes:
[*] Updated users' privileges.
Release #10
v1.9.0 from 17-Sep-2019
New features and improvements:
[+] Minimal CS-Cart platform version is 4.9.1;
[+] Placeholders `[min_price_prefix]`, `[min_price_suffix]`, `[max_price_prefix]`, `[max_price_suffix]` for categories and brands pages are added.

Functionality changes:
[*] Placeholders `[category_origin_name]` and `[category_name]` (and they variations) are deprecated;
[*] Addon item description in the "AB: Addons" menu is deleted.
Release #9
v1.8.0 from 22-Apr-2018
Feature additions:
[+] Added UpgradeCenter/Connector for the next updates;

Bug fixes:
[!] Language variables are corrected;
Release #8
v1.7 from 12-Jun-2018
https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/ab__extended_metadata.doc
Release #7
v1.6 from 03-May-2018
https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/ab__extended_metadata.doc
Release #6
v1.5 from 27-Oct-2017
https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/ab__extended_metadata.doc
Release #5
v1.4 from 25-Oct-2017
https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/ab__extended_metadata.doc
Release #4
v1.3 from 24-Aug-2017
v1.3 August 24, 2017
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~ expanded help;
~ split placeholders "category name" and "AB: Custom H1 for category page"


v1.2 August 10, 2017
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+ added compatibility with PHP 7.1;
~ extended prices placeholders;
~ optimized database queries;


v1.1 March 16, 2017
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+ added addon support - Addon - Custom Н1 header for category page (https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/custom-h1-for-category-page.html);
+ new types of placeholders added, allowing to output data in various formats (lowercase, uppercase and first capital);
+ added placeholders replace for standart meta-tags;
+ added changelog;
Release #3
v1.2 from 10-Aug-2017
v1.2 August 10, 2017
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+ added compatibility with PHP 7.1;
~ extended prices placeholders;
~ optimized database queries;


v1.1 March 16, 2017
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+ added addon support - Addon - Custom Н1 header for category page (https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/custom-h1-for-category-page.html);
+ new types of placeholders added, allowing to output data in various formats (lowercase, uppercase and first capital);
+ added placeholders replace for standart meta-tags;
+ added changelog;
Release #2
v1.1 from 16-Mar-2017
v1.1 от 16 марта 2017
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+ added addon support - Addon - Custom Н1 header for category page (https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com/en/custom-h1-for-category-page.html)
+ new types of placeholders added, allowing to output data in various formats (lowercase, uppercase and first capital)
Release #1
v1.0 from 06-Mar-2017