Amending default product page title.

[sciencesight]

I'd like to alter the default product page title for SEO reasons. I could do this easily in 5.5. How may I do it in v7.0?

Thanks, Dave

[mazhar]

Edit your Website/Default.aspx file and then locate Title attrib in it

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Title="Home Page"

and change it to your custom for example

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Title="Home Page(Modified)"

[sciencesight]

Thanks mazhar,
That helped me custom title the Home Page.
Taking your lead, on the products.aspx page, I assume I can safely add plain text to follow this string...

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Page.Title = _Product.Name;

How would that go?

Thanks, Dave

[mazhar]

This statement it put dynamic title that can change depending upon product name. So if you want to change it as

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Page.Title = "Your text here";

[sciencesight]

Thanks,

This is what I want to do...

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Page.Title = “title text before product name”  _Product.Name;  “title text following product name.”

Will this work this way?

Thanks, Dave

[mazhar]

It would be something like this

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Page.Title = “title text before product name” + _Product.Name + “title text following product name.”;

[efficiondave]

This still limits you to static text and product name. We really need the ability to customize this for each product and category. I see there is a wiki article on this but I'm not sure it would work quite right, it seems to be missing some stuff. http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... ta_tags%3F

[jmestep]

Web2Market's SEO Manager handles specific per product titles. It also moves the title and meta stuff up to the top of the page. It creates default titles and meta if there is no custom one added. It is our best selling plugin, as it was with the Able 5 SEO plugin.
You can see it at work by viewing the source of a site like this that uses it.
http://www.thegpsstore.com/Automotive-GPS-C1.aspx

Purchase information is here:
http://www.web2market.com/SEO-Manager-P122C77.aspx

[draneb]

I sure would like to add the main category name to the product page title. Is this possible?

I tried
Page.Title = _Product.Name + c.Name;
and it gave an error The name c.Name Does Not Exist in the Current Context

Thank you!

[mazhar]

Try something like this

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int categoryId = PageHelper.GetCategoryId();
Category c = CategoryDataSource.Load(categoryId);
Page.Title = _Product.Name + c.Name;

[draneb]

That worked perfectly. Thank you so much Mazhar!