Category: Ecommerce SEO

  • Google Says “Do as I Say, Not as I do!”

    Google Says “Do as I Say, Not as I do!”

    Well the same reason less than ethical webmasters use very near color CSS to hide text. They want or need the text there, but don’t really want you to see it. Webmasters however, are penalized for this deceptive technique, their rankings damaged and in turn their business damaged.

  • Oops Google ….

    So we have been working hard to create the proper and effective way to deliver schematic markup to Google and others. Up until recently yesterday, there was an issue delivering the product price for Zen Cart. I have 2 thoughts on this. 1. Maybe we should ONLY be delivering the base price and not the…

  • Data Highlighter Tagging Now Available in Google Webmaster Tools

    The data highlighter now has a way to tag your pages manually and create a “set” for Google to understand them all most of them without having to make edits to your Zen Cart. While I am certain the site edits are more effective, I actually recommend you do both. My reasoning is quite simple,…

  • Zen Cart & Multiple Languages

    Zen Cart really is quite robust ecommerce software. Setting up your Zen Cart to offer multiple languages is pretty common, if you are just getting started go here. This post is designed to help multiple language Zen Carts correctly direct the search engines to the correct language specific page when appropriate. Zen Cart 1.3.9 and…

  • Zen Cart rel=”canonical” for Your SSL Store

    Switching to full SSL will turn off your rel=”canonical” tags. While this may be a bit short sighted on the part of the Zen Cart Development Team… it’s easily fixed! Once you make the switches to all SSL pages you will eliminate SSL/Non-SSL content duplication completely and fixing your canonical tag is necessary for a…