Metatags on empty category with subcategories

Mads Andersen

Posted on 26/09/2011 11:22:21

Hi

I've run into some issues with metatags (title, keywords, description) does not show on empty categories with subcategories.
The reason why is, when no products found on the category I list the subcategories in the "NoProductsFound" template. The "NoProductsFound" template has no metatags and the categorys tags gets overwritten by the current page's tags.
It's a huge problem that I can't SEO optimize the top categories pages.

The question is now:

Is there any other way to list the subcategories than from the "NoProductsFound" template and what's the correct way to do it?
And how do I ensure that the metatags from the category with no products will be shown?

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 26/09/2011 11:59:56

If this is the case, it is a bug.

I'll have our QA take a look and file a bug if reproduced.

Mads Andersen

Posted on 26/09/2011 12:32:07

Thank you.

Please let me know if it is a bug :-)

Merethe Nielsen

Posted on 26/09/2011 14:52:42

Hi

Did you try the Subgroups loop? I get these tags inside that loop:
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaDescription-->
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaKeywords-->
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaTitle-->
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaUrl-->

Add this to your "No products" template:


---------------------------------------------------
<!--@LoopStart(Subgroups)--><!--@DwTemplateTags-->
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaDescription-->
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaKeywords-->
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaTitle-->
  <!--@Ecom:Group.MetaUrl-->


<li class="listitem<!--@Groups.LoopMod2-->">
        <h3><a href="<!--@Ecom:Group.Link.Clean-->"><!--@Ecom:Group.Name--></a></h3>
        <span class="shortdescription"><!--@Ecom:Group.Description--></span>
    </li>
<!--@LoopEnd(Subgroups)-->
No product found

---------------------------------------------------

Merethe Nielsen

Posted on 26/09/2011 14:54:54

About the Subgroups loop:
http://templates.dynamicweb-cms.com/eCommerce/Dynamicweb-eCommerce-template-tags/Product-Catalog/Product-list/Loops/Subgroups.aspx

Mads Andersen

Posted on 26/09/2011 22:49:49

Thanks, but that is not quite the answer I'm looking for. I would like the whole template to be tagged with the parent category metatags and not the non existend tags from the NoProductsFound template.

I was aware that the tags were available :-)

I'm also looking for an alternative way, if any, to show the child categories when there's no products and only child categories.

But thank you :-)

Merethe Nielsen

Posted on 27/09/2011 10:52:36

I'm sorry that I misunderstood you. I now get it and was able to reproduce it.

I have created bug 7220.

I talked to Nicaoli and we don't think that there is a workaround.

Mads Andersen

Posted on 27/09/2011 10:54:14

Thank you, sorry for my bad explaining :-)

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