In this article I’m going to talk about the impact that search engine crawlers and automated robots activity not being controlled can have on your account’s resource usage. Why do bots need to be controlled? A very common way that information spreads on the Internet is by the use of automated robots that crawl the Read More >
Search Engine Optimization
Finding the search engine GET variable for PrestaShop 1.5
While adding a search engine to your list in PrestaShop 1.5, there is a required field for the $_Get variable. This is the name of the variable parameter used by the search engine when looking up sites or pages related to the search term. This variable is important as PrestaShop must know what it is Read More >
Viewing the Search Engine Keyword report in PrestaShop 1.5
Our previous article was about the catalog statistics report. Next up in our Working with Product Stats course is the Search Engine Keywords report. The Search Engine Keywords stats report in your PrestaShop 1.5 store is an important part of your SEO plan. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is the process of organizing Read More >
How to delete a Search Engine in PrestaShop 1.5
After learning to add a search engine for SEO to the engine list in PrestaShop 1.5, this article will help you learn how to remove one. Although you will likely not be removing the larger search engines, the smaller specialty search engines may fade out at some point. To help with good housekeeping, you will Read More >
How to add a Search Engine for SEO in PrestaShop 1.5
Welcome to the first article in our course on Managing Search Engine Data. Your visitors will come from many places across the web. Most of the time they will use a search engine to find your pages. It is important to collect their information so you can use it to enhance your SEO (search engine Read More >
Using Search Engine Friendly URLs in Joomla 3.1
In the Global Configuration settings of Joomla 3.0 is a set of SEO Settings that you can adjust. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and configuring these parameters will allow you to change various settings about your site that some search engines may look at when crawling your site. In this tutorial, we’ll look specifically Read More >
How to set up Search Engine Friendly URLs in PrestaShop 1.5
As Prestashop 1.5 creates pages for your store, the URL is not always compatible with the search engines. There is a setting that allows you to set the URLs to be more search engine friendly so your store will be more likely to get found. Enabling the Friendly URL option in PrestaShop 1.5 is very Read More >
How to add SEO for your products in PrestaShop 1.5
So far we’ve added our product and gave it a price. Adding SEO (Search Engine Optimization) will help the search engines index the product page so visitors can find it much easier. This will bring more traffic to your site and hopefully generate more sales for your store. Follow the instructions below to enhance your Read More >
How to Stop Search Engines from Crawling your Website
In order for your website to be found by other people, search engine crawlers, also sometimes referred to as bots or spiders, will crawl your website looking for updated text and links to update their search indexes. How to Control search engine crawlers with a robots.txt file Website owners can instruct search engines on how Read More >
Adding a Meta Keywords Tag
Adding a meta keywords tag is very similar to adding a meta description. You will need to place the meta keywords tag within the <head></head> tags of your website’s HTML code. If you missed our previous article, please see the Adding a Meta Description Tag tutorial. <meta name=”keywords” content=”enter your keywords here” /> Just as Read More >
Adding a Meta Description Tag
One of the most important Meta tags to add to your site is the description Meta tag. The Description meta tag is what Google uses in their search engine. The paragraph part of the search results is the Meta Description. Below is an example of the meta description code. <meta name=”description” content=”This is the description Read More >
What are Meta Tags?
When working on a website, you may hear references to “Meta Data” or “Meta Tags“. This is commonly associated with “SEO” (Search Engine Optimization). Managing your pages meta tag information is important for when search engines like Google search your site. This article will explain what meta tags are for. What is a Meta tag? Read More >
How to get your site into search engines
So you have your website up and ready, but you don’t have any traffic yet. For most sites, search engines are the primary source of traffic, so it’s important to let the search engines know that your website exists. In this article, we’ll discuss how you can help get your site into search engines. Even Read More >
