Magento search engine optimization : maximize sales by optimizing your Magento store and improving exposure in popular search engines like Google / Robert Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Robert.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce--Computer programs.

Electronic commerce.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Kent Robert: Robert Kent is a Magento Certified Developer with over four years of experience using the Magento framework. He currently works at Creare Communications Ltd. (http: //www. creare. co. uk), one of the UK's largest SEO and web design companies based in the Midlands. With over 5 years of experience working on a variety of projects across multiple open source frameworks, he has gained expertise in PHP, XML, jQuery, and a wide range of other web-based languages. Working in an R&D capacity developing extensions, and plugins for both Magento and WordPress, he also plays a key role in developing new techniques and standards for both of these platforms from an SEO perspective. This is his second book based on Magento, the first book being Magento Shipping How-To, Packt Publishing a guide on how to configure shipping settings within Magento.

Summary:

This book is an easy-to-follow tutorial with best practices and advanced references which will help you to take full advantage of Magento with SEO.This book is aimed at both Magento developers and SEO specialists who wish to optimize search and end user elements such as click-through rates to ensure the design of their online shop sites effectively maximize sales. Magento store owners may also find large sections of this book useful in order to understand the larger impact small tweaks and changes can have on SEO - especially when editing products and categories. This book assumes that the rea

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Preparing and Configuring Your Magento Website; Focusing your keywords; The role of the home page; Structuring our categories for better optimization; Optimizing our CMS pages; Optimizing our titles, content, and meta information; Adjusting our Magento configuration for SEO; Default settings; XML sitemap; Google Analytics; Summary; Chapter 2: Product and Category Page Optimization; Optimizing titles and descriptions for the SERPs

Adjusting our category titles and descriptionsAdjusting our product titles and descriptions; Optimizing our URL keys; Layout and content considerations; Category page layout; Product page layout; Optimizing our headings; Optimizing product and category descriptions; Additional tips for content; Optimizing images and selling your product; Implementing schema (rich snippets); Adding the schema.org markup to our templates; Implementing social sharing for products; Summary; Chapter 3: Managing Internationalization and Multiple Languages

Choosing the right domain structure for multiregional websitesStore-specific configuration; Translating URL keys; Translating template content; Avoiding duplicate content when translating pages; Summary; Chapter 4: Template/Design Adjustments for SEO and CRO; Organizing our heading structure; Changing our heading structure on the home, category, and product pages; Integrating the breadcrumb and organization schema; Adding schema to our breadcrumbs; Adding rel=next/prev to our category pagination; Adding reviews directly onto our product pages; Removing unwanted blocks from the checkout

SummaryChapter 5: Speeding Up Your Magento Website; SEO benefits of a fast Magento website; Magento configuration settings to increase speed; .htaccess modifications; Server-side performance and scalability; Online tools to test performance; Mage Speed Test; Pingdom Website Speed Test; Google Page Speed Insights; Summary; Chapter 6: Analyzing and Tracking Your Visitors; An overview of e-commerce analytics reports; Adding secondary dimensions and advanced filters; Advanced segments; Understanding Multi-Channel Funnels; Assisted conversions; Top conversion paths

Adding events to track phone number clicksUniversal Analytics; Implementing and analyzing content experiments; Summary; Chapter 7: Technical Rewrites for Search Engines; Additional .htaccess modifications; Maintaining a www or non-www domain prefix; Removing the /index.php/ path once and for all; Redirecting /home to our domain; Redirecting older pages; Improving our robots.txt file; Resolving layered-navigation duplicate content; Summary; Chapter 8: Purpose-built Magento Extensions for SEO/CRO; Installing extensions; Popular SEO-specific Magento extensions; SEO Suite Ultimate by MageWorx

Google Shopping feed by Rocket Web

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 1, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783288588

1783288582

OCLC:

868489063