[Real Mens Wallets]

Had a question re: inline SEO..

Does it allow for google to index images along with titles and alt tags for the images?

Will it also allow for custom meta titles and descriptions for all product category pages, product pages?

[Real Mens Wallets]

Order Number : 4722425913
Merchant Order ID : ecwid_280408

Today I upgraded one of my accounts to the silver plan for the sole purpose of inline SEO catalogue.

It is now apparent that the Inline SEO catalogue feature is completely useless for my site requirements and setup.
I had posed the question of my sites setup and whether SEO catalouge would work with it both in forums and in an email to you.
These questions went unanswered.

Please either refund this subscription that was upgraded today or have my question addressed.

[Eugene Rimmer]

Yes, inline SEO enables the product images from your Ecwid shop to be indexed by search engines (to find that out you don't really need to upgrade, you can just inspect the source of the inline SEO catalog, where you can see how the product image will be represented in the code of your page). Currently, only the product thumbnail (main product image) is included into the inline SEO catalog listings, but not the gallery images. It is, however, possible to enable the gallery images to be indexed too with some custom modification to the code of inline SEO catalog.

The custom meta titles and descriptions are not the part of the common version of inline SEO catalog, because title and description are situated far from the place where the store's code is inserted into the HTML code of your store page. Every site or CMS has its own way to set the page title or include the meta information, there is unfortunately no good way to cover them all out of the box. The Wordpress plugin, however, includes the separate, per product titles (bearing the name of the product on the page). The meta descriptions are not shipped with the inline SEO at all, because meta description text may often differ from the product description in page, and there is no property in the product in Ecwid that could be easily used as a meta description. The meta descriptions may be added to the pages inside inline SEO catalog with 3rd party solutions or custom programming.

If you need a refund, you can contact billing@ecwid.com with the necessary details about your Ecwid account and the reasons for refund.

[Real Mens Wallets]

Thanks for the reply Eugene. However this was not the question I needed addressing when I contacted sales 3 weeks ago..

A copy of the question (and the reason I want to look at a refund is) is this :

I’m primarily interested in upgrading the silver plan for the inline SEO indexing of product pages.

My site is setup with individual category pages with the root/store disabled. Each static category page on the website has its own ecwid code for that particular category with no links to any of the other categories or the root store.
This is a wordpress site, I wondered if it is required to use the ecwid plugin for wordpress or I can intergrade the inline SEO with the existing code rather than use the plugin.

[Kess]

We have replied to this question of yours by e-mail on May 28. Could you possibly let us know if you have received our response?

Here is the text of our reply:

Hello, Peter.

Please accept our apologies for the delay with the reply. Unfortunately, we do not have e-mail technical support, thus please feel free to use our forums for that. The community will be glad to help you with all the technical aspects explanation.

When indexing your site, search engines actually read the source code of the pages on your site and extract the text from it. The usual Ecwid's embed codes simply do not and may not carry the information about the products in your store.

Inline SEO catalog adds such information to the store pages source code automatically. This is done by means of a server side script, and unfortunately it may not be done without a server side script. Ecwid plugin for Wordpress includes that script, so you can use inline SEO by just enabling it in the plugin preferences and without any coding.

Ecwid Inline SEO catalog does not conflict this third party SEO modules. The point, that should be taken into consideration here is third party SEO modules can sometimes override what Ecwid inline SEO catalog does. Most of such features can be disabled in those 3rd party plugins to preseve the information from Ecwid.

As for discount coupons, at the moment they are applied to the subtotal of the whole cart for each order. Please refer to the following article for this feature description:
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/24739561/Discount%20coupons

The ability to create discount coupons for certain products is already in testing and will be added the next major Ecwid version.

[Real Mens Wallets]

Kess
Yes I got that email, it didn't address the main question......That is that the inline SEO cannot be used for a site that has existing code for separate categories on separate pages as pointed out in this post : http://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?p=46066

(The inline SEO catalog is not compatible with separate site pages for each category

If there is no workaround for this, the inline SEO feature is of little value to me

These pages are examples of each page displaying only a specific category ID
http://www.realmenswallets.com/crocodile-wallets
http://www.realmenswallets.com/shark...
http://www.realmenswallets.com/ostrich-wallets

regards

[Eugene Rimmer]

Originally Posted by peter ilbery

Kess
Yes I got that email, it didn't address the main question......That is that the inline SEO cannot be used for a site that has existing code for separate categories on separate pages as pointed out in this post : http://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?p=46066

(The inline SEO catalog is not compatible with separate site pages for each category

If there is no workaround for this, the inline SEO feature is of little value to me

These pages are examples of each page displaying only a specific category ID
http://www.realmenswallets.com/crocodile-wallets
http://www.realmenswallets.com/shark...
http://www.realmenswallets.com/ostrich-wallets

regards

Thу inline SEO is just a script written in PHP, you can easily achieve the proper usage of inline SEO catalog along with the category specific pages by some custom programming - you just need it to display the current default category instead of the root category of the store. If you need a professional custom programming service from the ecommerce specialists already aware of Ecwid, you can turn to our friends from Qualiteam: send a letter describing your project to sales@qtmsoft.com for a quote.

[Real Mens Wallets]

I'm already displaying each separate category on its own page with this code:

<div><script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
ecwidMessages = { "PaymentDetails.enter_email":"Enter your e-mail address", "ShippingDetails.enter_address_or":"Enter shipping address" }
// ]]></script>
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://app.ecwid.com/script.js?1072071"></script><script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
xProductBrowser("categoriesPerRow=3","views=grid(4 ,4) list(10) table(20)","categoryView=grid","searchView=list"," style=","defaultCategoryId=2348372");
// ]]></script></div>

Would it not be a simple thing to be able to modify and provide the code for php for inline SEO here in this thread?

[Real Mens Wallets]

Using this code for example:

Is there not a $params variable that will index/show only a specific category ID?


<?php
include "ecwid_catalog/ecwid_catalog.php";
$params['store_id'] = storeID;
$params['ecwid_show_seo_catalog'] = true;
echo show_ecwid($params);
?>

Regards

[Eugene Rimmer]

Originally Posted by peter ilbery

Using this code for example:

Is there not a $params variable that will index/show only a specific category ID?


<?php
include "ecwid_catalog/ecwid_catalog.php";
$params['store_id'] = storeID;
$params['ecwid_show_seo_catalog'] = true;
echo show_ecwid($params);
?>

Regards

Yes, this variable will show the category in Ecwid widgets, just like you do that on your own category pages, bu the inline SEO catalog will still be starting from the root category. But as I mentioned before, it is possible to make the inline SEO catalog follow that option too.