Keywords

[Havouza]

I see in the DB that there is a field for keywords but it is missing in the SEO tab in BO. Is this a mistake or meaningly? I had a crawl from Google and it seems that is still looking for keywords

[yaniv14]

It used to be on previous versions of PS. There is no use to keywords any more. It's meaningless for SEO purposes.

[Havouza]

@yaniv14 Is meta description also useless?

[yaniv14]

Meta description is important. Here is a quick starter guide you can look at: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

I am sure you can find better docs online.

[wakabayashi]

@Havouza said in Keywords:

@yaniv14 Is meta description also useless?

No this is not useless! It's often showed in the google search results.

[yaniv14]

The reason its often shows in google search result is because Google is not convinced that the meta description is relevant to your page content and in this case Google just grab something else from your page content.

[wakabayashi]

You must have got my sentence wrong...

Google shows metadescription if it trusts you. -> So the metadescription is NOT useless!

[Havouza]

Is it a good idea to use the short product description also as Meta description?

[yaniv14]

Its a good idea if you product short description is up to 160 Chars. Google usually truncate the description after 160 chars. So its better that you provide a full description as you like instead of google ending up cutting is in the middle of a sentence.

[Havouza]

The problem is to do that when you have 6000 products to go through. But we find a way

[alwayspaws]

character counts: name = 128 short description = 255 characters. metatitle = 70 metadescription = 160 characters.

[Havouza]

From where? My short description is set to 1000 ¨because I put the description in the short description field

[alwayspaws]

@Havouza said in Keywords:

The problem is to do that when you have 6000 products to go through. But we find a way

Maybe this free tool by @musicmaster will help you:

https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/185401-free-script-prestools-suite-mass-edit-order-edit-and-much-more/

[alwayspaws]

@Havouza said in Keywords:

From where? My short description is set to 1000 ¨because I put the description in the short description field

I'm leaving this in for anyone who needs it, but for your answer: I was told by TemplateMonster that 255 characters is the max, which could be wrong.

meta title and meta description - you can see them when you edit a product or a category. It shows the allowed limits.

[Havouza]

To add a meta description on 6000 products? I doubt it.

My meta description is much longer.

[alwayspaws]

@Havouza The module I suggested won't work for you? I haven't tried it yet because I haven't reached that point.

[Havouza]

But the meta description should be unique for the product. What can the module do?

[alwayspaws]

@Havouza you have to read about the module. One feature is:

The main parts are: - product-edit: great options for mass editing more than 50 product fields. Add categories, change prices, update descriptions - for hundreds of products at once.

[Havouza]

Still I have to create one meta description for each product. So I dont see the meaning

[Havouza]

According to the tutorial from Google the meta title is the most important and should be unique for each page. Therefore I copy the product name to the Meta title field meaning it get unique

[alwayspaws]

It's very hard to do when you have to add it to every existing product. I don't know how you will do it in bulk.

Example: If you google precious diamonds you see this as the title and description:

List of diamonds - Wikipedia - that is the meta title

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofdiamonds - URL

This is the meta description:

24.78-carat (4.956 g) A 24.78-carat Fancy Intense Pink diamond and, until the sale of the Sweet Josephine diamond in November 2015, it was the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction. Previously owned by Harry Winston and an unnamed private collector, and bought by Laurence Graff (November 2010).

[Havouza]

I do it using sql directly in the db seconds to add 6000

[alwayspaws]

But a unique meta title and a unique meta description for all those 6000 products?

Teach me, please! :)

[Havouza]

The meta title I just copy from the name in the tbproductlang

UPDATE tbproductlang SET meta_description = name

But you need to know what you do. The same you can do with the description to meta description

[alwayspaws]

Since I'm doing a new website, I am copying and pasting my information onto the csv spreadsheets, so I don't have a lot of products to update. I have thousands to add.