Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv14 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 It used to be on previous versions of PS. There is no use to keywords any more. It's meaningless for SEO purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 @yaniv14 Is meta description also useless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv14 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakabayashi Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 @Havouza said in Keywords: @yaniv14 Is meta description also useless? No this is not useless! It's often showed in the google search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv14 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakabayashi Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 You must have got my sentence wrong... Google shows metadescription if it trusts you. -> So the metadescription is NOT useless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 Is it a good idea to use the short product description also as Meta description? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv14 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 The problem is to do that when you have 6000 products to go through. But we find a way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 character counts: name = 128 short description = 255 characters. metatitle = 70 metadescription = 160 characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 From where? My short description is set to 1000 ¨because I put the description in the short description field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 @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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 @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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 To add a meta description on 6000 products? I doubt it. My meta description is much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 @Havouza The module I suggested won't work for you? I haven't tried it yet because I haven't reached that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 But the meta description should be unique for the product. What can the module do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 @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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 Still I have to create one meta description for each product. So I dont see the meaning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 I do it using sql directly in the db seconds to add 6000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 But a unique meta title and a unique meta description for all those 6000 products? Teach me, please! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havouza Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwayspaws Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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