version 6.8.0

In Drop downs/subcategories, Some categories have it some don't

I see the relation ship between ones that have it and ones that don't.
Home cats no diamond, sub cats+ question mark diamond

what is the fix? & does it matter?
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Also, I notice that many of my categories etc. do not have meta tags descriptions etc.
Will this take care of that? https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/seo/dynamic-title-meta-php.asp

also noticed built in ECT feature to create static pages for products.
Will that be seen as a positive by Google etc. or do they still prefer the DB driven style of my current sites??

Should I implement static pages? and if I do should I do it before or after implementing the Dynamic/title feature?

Thank you in advance!

Hi Merritt,
Can you browse to a detail page on the frontend and view the page souce you should see the meta tag that contains the charset then do the same for the admin product page (adminprods.php) and post what you have for those 2 below is a example of the meta tag

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

As for the SEO I go with the dynamic meta and description tags, and use SEO friendly urls https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/seo/search-engine-friendly-urls-php.asp which in my opinion is better than creating static pages.

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Thank you Sinbad,

You are an excellent explainer.

i think I went down the static page road a couple years ago and decided the same thing, shoulda searched.
I'll stay with I have but make sure I have implemented those other built in SEO features.
(What prompted this was I was told by a Google person that Site 1 had real good "metrics" as opposed to Site 2(created later).

And I noticed that Site 1 may be utilizing more ECT seo features than Site 2

ARRGGH!

Hi Merritt, we still need you to post those meta tags for the charset/

Does site 2 connect to site 1 database, if so it could be that they share the same description and the older one will take the lead. I'm working on a site that shares database information. My workaround is using the short description.
site1 no short description is displayed anywhere.
site 2 displays the short description ONLY on the detail page and it is first, while the main description is shown below everything else.

$detailpagelayout='checkoutbutton,productimage,productname,listprice,reviewstars,shortdescription,price,options,quantity,addtocart,custom1,custom2,description,previousnext,emailfriend,';

Also to help avoid duplicate content from the main description I put a class on the textual content and left the bullet points un-classed. Then in my css on site 2 I did .myclass{display:none} that hide the text from the long description but left the bullet points in place.


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Both sites have their own data base.

I'll be back at this tomorrow AM

proddetail.php -
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

adminprods.php

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<? print $adminencoding$" />

In includes.php are you using

$adminencoding="utf-8"

or

$adminencoding="iso-8859-1"

or don't you have that entry?

Andy

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Nope, don't have it in includes

I would try adding $adminencoding="utf-8" to your vsadmin/includes.php. that should sort out the issue in the admin.
Make sure there are no knock on effects to the front end of the site and I'd be changing the encoding to utf on the front end at some point.



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