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x-cart ~ cdseo pro

CDSEO Pro is an add-on for x-cart that provides the next level of Search Engine Optimisation. This is not a standard x-cart feature, so unless you have specifically requested it, you won't have this feature in your own shop. Please ask us for a quote.

The benefits of CDSEO Pro include:-

  • The ability to set the page title for your home page and EVERY category, product and static page on your website (which appears as the purple underlined text in the Google search results page - see below)
  • The ability to set the behind the scenes 'meta keywords' for every category, product and static page on your website (only read by search engines - not visible to the average user)
  • The ability to set the 'meta description' for every category, product and static page on your website (visible in Google as the 'hard-working, cheap, economical....' below). The ability to write an eye-catching well written keyworded phrase that makes sense and captures the interest of your potential customers will be the make or break of your SEO success. This listing below has worked EXTREMELY well for Shop Naturally.

Does it work?

It is worth noting that with the installation of CDSEO Pro, a couple of support blog sites and paid advertising on Get Price, we have managed to take 6 out of the top 10 positions on Google for 'non-toxic laundry products' for our client Shop Naturally. They plan on targeting an extensive list of phrases over the coming months. This was just the first one to see how successful it would be.

If you're deadly serious about dominating Google, and you have time to dedicate to improving your search engine rankings and money to allocate to it, ask us how we did it. This is serious SEO, and will take more time to do than it took you to add your stock to your site, but it works.

  1. Click on the CDSEO Pro link at the top of your admin.
  2. Click on the SETTINGS button.
  3. Type the page title in the Custom Home Page Title box.
  4. Click UPDATE

TIPS

  1. Make sure the Page Title is descriptive and that it also contains keywords. You can omit your business name if you want to
  1. Click on the CDSEO Pro link at the top of your admin.
  2. Click on the CATEGORIES button.
  3. Click on the name of the Category you wish to alter. Use the category filter to shorten the list if necessary.
  4. Put in the following information:-
    a) Page Title (in purple below) - rich with keywords, leave your business name 'til last.
    b) Link Title - you can just duplicate the Page Title here
    c) CDSEO Url - this is the laundry.html in what's below. Just type in laundry. Make these rich with keywords as well. A smarter name for the page below would be non-toxic-laundry-products-chemical-free-safe.html (which we did do for another category on the site)
    d) Disabled Url - only necessary if you're going to turn categories off on a regular basis. If someone finds it in Google, they'll get redirected here. Omit unless you really think it's necessary
    e) Meta Keywords - one word followed by a comma. This only gets seen by the search engines ie:
    laundry, chemical, free, non, toxic, detergent, products, discount
    f) Meta Description - A short eye grabbing sentence rich with keywords. If someone is looking at 10 search results on a page, you want yours to stand out.
  5. Click UPDATE

TIPS

  1. You need to acheive 2 things here. Firstly, keywords to actually get you on the front page of Google, and secondly, your entry needs to be enticing.
  2. If you're going to do any link building via a blog or any other means, link to these internal pages instead of the front page of your website. This will help drive up the rankings for you. Link with meaningful words.
    - CLICK HERE - not very valuable.
    - Buy Discount Non-Toxic Laundry Products Online - much more valuable
  1. Click on the CDSEO Pro link at the top of your admin.
  2. Click on the MANUFACTURERS button.
  3. Click on the name of the Manufacturer you wish to alter. Use the manufacturer filter to shorten the list if necessary.
  4. Put in the following information:-
    a) Page Title (in purple below) - rich with keywords, leave your business name 'til last.
    b) Link Title - you can just duplicate the Page Title here
    c) CDSEO Url - this is the laundry.html in what's below. Just type in laundry. Make these rich with keywords as well. A smarter name for the page below would be non-toxic-laundry-products-chemical-free-safe.html (which we did do for another category on the site)
    d) Disabled Url - only necessary if you're going to turn categories off on a regular basis. If someone finds it in Google, they'll get redirected here. Omit unless you really think it's necessary
    e) Meta Keywords - one word followed by a comma. This only gets seen by the search engines ie:
    laundry, chemical, free, non, toxic, detergent, products, discount
    f) Meta Description - A short eye grabbing sentence rich with keywords. If someone is looking at 10 search results on a page, you want yours to stand out.
  5. Click UPDATE

TIPS

  1. You need to acheive 2 things here. Firstly, keywords to actually get you on the front page of Google, and secondly, your entry needs to be enticing.
  2. If you're going to do any link building via a blog or any other means, link to these internal pages instead of the front page of your website. This will help drive up the rankings for you. Link with meaningful words.
    - CLICK HERE - not very valuable.
    - Buy Discount Non-Toxic Laundry Products Online - much more valuable

You get the hang of it now. Click the PRODUCTS link, do what you did for the Categories & the Manufacturers

By this stage, you may want to let the system auto-populate all these for you (see below). If you have stock that comes & goes rapidly, there's no real point in doing too much work here.

Ditto to above. Click the STATIC PAGES link, follow the categories & manufacturers tutorials.

Bored? Too many products? No time?

You can let the system auto-populate the information for you. We actually recommend you do this for the product pages, but that you take the time to manually input data for the categories & manufacturers.

  1. The URL gets grabbed from the category/product name
  2. The Page Title gets grabbed from the category/product name & the name of the shop
  3. The Meta Keywords & Description get taken from the first lot of text found on the page. If there's no text, they are left blank.

HOW DO I AUTO-POPULATE?

There's an auto-populate link on the Categories, Manufacturers, Products & Static pages or you can find one on the Modules page.

 


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