phamxuanvinh2110 8 years ago
SEO PACK PRO and SEO Backpack is the best? please help me to give ideas...
iSense 8 years ago
Hey and thanks for your interest in SEO Backpack.
You can read more info on what makes SEO Backpack different in this blogpost here: https://isenselabs.com/posts/seo-backpack-qa. If you have any additional questions we will be happy to answer these.
omego 8 years ago
The demo is down!
iSense 8 years ago
Hello and thanks for reaching out.
Sorry about that. It seems like the competition is never sleeping :) Demo is back up again.
ricky709 8 years ago
Everything looks perfect but I do not see option to noindex certain products. Is it also possible to noindex entire individual product section?
Let's say I just want to index categories only. Is that possile?
iSense 8 years ago
Hello and thanks for your interest in SEO BackPack.
You can add the product manually with the robots.txt editor (inside the module). There is an example in the module which you can use to disable product URLs from indexing.
Hope this helps!
ricky709 8 years ago
There is a huge difference in disallowing url from robots.txt and adding meta noindex parameter in head. I hope you know that.
Blocking access through robots.txt doesn't stop Google from indexing the page. It would end up in being indexed with message ""A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more"."
I hope you understood my question
iSense 8 years ago
Hey Ricky,
Absolutely right there.
However, this should still mean that the page won't be displayed in Google's search results. Still, if we have high demand for this feature, we will include it in one of the next releases of the module.
Let us know how this works out for you.
Chrisad 8 years ago
I am a happy owner of this extension. The most effective and complete SEO pack with outstanding support. Keep the good work guys. Regards
iSense 8 years ago
Hello and thanks a lot Chris. This means a lot to us.
sac@inoweb.com.br 8 years ago
Hi! This extension has supports ocmod?
iSense 8 years ago
Hello and thanks for your interest in SEO Backpack,
Yes, SEO Backpack is OCMOD powered, so there are no changes in the default OpenCart structure.
OpenCart LT 8 years ago
If I have two products with same name and don't want add [sku],[model],[random] what URL will be generated for second product?
Mostly in other modules it generate something like:
product-name.html
product-name-1.html
product-name-2.html
...
What about this module? I just want to add some prefix only on duplicated urls. It is possible?
iSense 8 years ago
Hello JSF,
Thank you for your interest in our product.
The module is automatically adding a random number indicator to the products with the same name in the end of the SEO URL. Let us know if this answers your question. If the generated URL is not by your liking, you can always change it from the Advanced Editor in the module.
OpenCart LT 8 years ago
I hope yes. Don't really understand what is random number indicator, but that is OK.
P.S. I missing some good features:
1. Custom URL redirect for multistore/multilanguage. For now with your module products can have different urls for each language, but /cart , /login URLs will be the same to all stores/languages?
2. Would be nice to see generated URLs examples before click "Generate" button. Now you click and no way to back if you did a mistake :)
iSense 8 years ago
1. Now is the same for all languages. We can make it multi-lingual in the future.
2. If you do not go through the quick fix page, but go manually from the URLs & Linking tab, you will be able to see the generated URLs after they are generated. If you notice any issues, you can easily copy the bugged URLs and then change them manually from the "Advanced Editor" tab.
Let us know how this works out for you.
dengine 8 years ago
I consider buying this Module, it looks great. I have a shop with the Journal Theme installed. Is this SEO pack fully compatible with the Journal 2.x theme?
iSense 8 years ago
Hello and thanks for your interest in SEO Backpack. Yes, absolutely. SEO Backpack is designed to work with any OpenCart theme. Whats more we are Journal Partners so all of our modules are compatible with Journal. Reference about the theme features:
https://isenselabs.com/img/uploads/seo-backpack/seo-backpack-image3.png
ama_ 8 years ago
Hi! we need to fix:
1. Search Console 404 errors like this:
/index.php?route=product/category&path=260&sort=p.model&order=DESC
or
/index.php?route=product/product&page=1&product_id=667
note: these ids are related to our old website and most of products and categories are changed or deleted.
2. google bot also start to scan disabled languages urls and we need an automation (or similar solution) to fix it.
Can we use these extension features to solve it?
iSense 8 years ago
Hello and thanks for reaching out. On your questions:
1. Currently we don`t have functionality which counts the 404 errors.
2. This is a great idea, we will need to research and see if its possible.
Is there an email where we can get back to you on both of these questions?
iSense 8 years ago
SEO Backpack 2.2
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- New feature: Implemented new "Migrate" function, which will migrate your current SEO URLs (if you have such) to the new logic, introduced in SEO Backpack
- New feature: Added .htaccess file check in the SEO Score calculation
- New feature: Added robots.txt file check in the SEO Score calculation
- New feature: Added Chinese support (experimental)
- New feature: Added limit option for the filter in the 'Advanced Editor' page
- New feature: Added option to remove more than one auto-links at a time
- New feature: Added option to remove more than one custom URLs at a time
- Improvement: Removed image renamer check from the SEO Score calculation, since some of the clients already have their images renamed.
- Improvement: The product prices for the structured data are now formatted to show no more than 2 decimal digits
- Bug-fix: SEO Chart display issue is now fixed
david0071980 8 years ago
Hello
First off, great app, also bought the nitro pack. I can recommend these apps to anyone and the issues I have below are probably minor issues which only I seem to experience since I have not read anything else about them anywhere:
1. from google merchant center, I am getting errors that there are too many redirects error. Not sure if this is a SEO Backpack or Nitro issue. It's happening to all my products. Additional information: I have Journal2 installed.
2. Second issue is more with Nitro Pack. Sometimes the CSS of parts of my page appear to be slightly corrupt since they do not render properly. (backgrounds missing from the main menu, logo different size, slider image not correct dimensions. I can resolve this by clearing the Nitro Cache and only seems to happen in Google Chrome.
I assume that SEO Backpack and Nitro are fully compatible with each other and Journal2?
The URL to the website is reefbasics.com
I'd appreciate your help on this.
Thanks.
BR
David
iSense 8 years ago
Hey there David,
Thanks for reaching out.
Can you please open a support ticket by going to https://isenselabs.com/tickets/open and we will be happy to investigate your case.
Alex Rettig 8 years ago
Review after 1 day using:
This extension creates a copy of oc_url_alias table, called oc_seo_url_alias, but the purpose is the same as the original one. If you deactivate or remove SEO Backpack, the latest product seo urls must be added to the original oc_url_alias table.
The Store logo link to home, from any product page, become your.domain.com/index.php?route=common/home instead of simple your.domain.com (as SEO expected)
I uninstalled SEO Backpack after I realize that I can install SEO Pack PRO (purchased 2012) since it was updated for OC 2.x ( https://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=marketplace/extension/info&extension_id=6182 )
SEO Backpack has better GUI and is more simple to use, but I came back to the more complete SEO Pack Pro.
iSense 8 years ago
Hey, thanks for the review. Here are our comments:
1. This extension creates a copy of oc_url_alias table, called oc_seo_url_alias, but the purpose is the same as the original one. If you deactivate or remove SEO Backpack, the latest product seo urls must be added to the original oc_url_alias table.
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The tables are not exactly the same. The original table does not have field for language ID, which basically means that you cannot have multi-lingual SEO URLs. Our table contains that field, which allows you to have multi-lingual SEO-friendly URLs. We had plans to just add this field in the core table, however, in OpenCart 3.0 modifying existing tables will not be allowed, so the only way for you to have multi-lingual SEO URLs is with another table for the links. (edited)
iSense 8 years ago
2. The Store logo link to home, from any product page, become your.domain.com/index.php?route=common/home instead of simple your.domain.com (as SEO expected)
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This is something that does not depend on the SEO module. The link for the logo is added in the template itself, so you just have to change the URL in the template and you should be good to go. (edited)
3. SEO Backpack has better GUI and is more simple to use, but I came back to the more complete SEO Pack Pro.
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At this point our module is 99% percent ready for OpenCart 3.0, while the SEO Pack PRO is not, so if you plan to update to the newest OpenCart version in the future, you may not be able to install the SEO Pack PRO right away or if you do, some of the functionalities may differ, while with SEO Backpack, regardless of the OC version you will have the same features.
The Lizard 8 years ago
Hello, I consider to purchase this SEO extension. But I have some a concern. My store adds this on page=2 of category when you navigate to page=2
href="https://xxx.com/category" rel="prev"
href="https://xxx.com/category?page=3" rel="next"
Google Serach Console has reportet many duplicate meta tags for sites https://xxx.com/category?page=2 and https://xxx.com/category. It seems tha Opencart makes some SEO issue here. It adds wrong links to rel="prev" and rel="next". How does your extension treat this issue? I couldn't get rid of this SEO issue which Google Serach Console points to.
iSense 8 years ago
Hey and thanks for reaching out,
The duplicate content issue should be solved automatically by OpenCart's canonical links. If your website does not have them, most probably the template that you use has removed them or it did not implement them correctly.
Let us know if you need any additional info on this one.
The Lizard 8 years ago
My store adds canonical links to products and categories, but not to pagination sites such as page=2, page=3 etc.
iSense 8 years ago
Hey and thanks for reaching out. This is most probably added from a module you are using. Reference could be pointed out as iSearchCorporate, which has 1 000 000 products:
page 1 - view-source:http://isearchcorporate.demo.isenselabs.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=17
page 2 - view-source:http://isearchcorporate.demo.isenselabs.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=17&page=2
Source is always: <link href="http://isearchcorporate.demo.isenselabs.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=17" rel="canonical" />
iSense 8 years ago
Still if you have purchased SEO Backpack you can open a support ticket at https://isenselabs.com/tickets/open and we will be happy to investigate this for you.
iSense 8 years ago
SEO BackPack 2.1 (Release log 2 out of 2):
- New feature: Added new tab, called "Advanced Editor". You can use this to edit all SEO fields (meta title, meta description, meta keywords, SEO keyword) right on the spot. There are also filters included in the page, which you can use to simplify the process
- New feature: Added [lang] short-code for the SEO URL generation. Now you can add "en", "fr", "de", "ru" or the code name of your language to the URL string of your products, categories, manufacturers and information pages
- New feature: Added ".html" string support in the SEO URLs for the products, categories, manufacturers and information pages
- Improvement: The database tables, which SEO Backpack needs, will now be created right after the "Install" button is clicked
iSense 8 years ago
You`ve asked and we`ve listened:
SEO BackPack 2.1 (Release log 1 out of 2):
- Improvement: The module now remembers the current opened tab in the module, so when you refresh the page you will be taken to the same place you were before the refresh action
- Improvement: Added checks for when the products are corrupted or are with missing names or descriptions
- Improvement: Modified the installation instructions file, which now includes information that you should not use this product alongside other SEO modules
- Improvement: Modified the installation instructions file, which now includes information about .htaccess and how you should set it up prior to the installation of the module
- Improvement: Small design changes in the admin panel
- Bug-fix: Fixed minor issue with the percentage calculation for the SEO Score
- Bug-fix: Added checks for the "Fix"/"Generate" buttons if the store does not have any information pages, manufacturers, categories or products
Gifts online 8 years ago
Is there a free trial? even if its for 1 hour only, just to check the app before buying ?
iSense 8 years ago
Hey,
Thanks for reaching out.
Unfortunately we can`t give a trial period because once someone fixes their SEO upon the removal of the module the SEO still remains fixed. What we do is we have live demos of all of our products. We are quite well recognized in the community: https://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=support/partner. On top of that we offer Guaranteed Premium Support and have a 30 day money-back guarantee https://isenselabs.com/pages/refundspolicy.
With all that being said, I think you shouldn`t worry about a trial.
iSense 8 years ago
SEO BackPack 2.0.1 (Release log 3 out of 3)
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- Improvement: Decreased the max characters for SEO URL from 400 to 200, since some browsers may not be able to load that long URL
- Improvement: Added loader when the pagination is used in the Auto-Links view
- Improvement: Added loader when the pagination is used in the Custom URLs view
- Improvement: Added loader when the pagination is used in the Search Engine Analytics view
- Improvement: Added instructions for manual installation of the module
- Improvement: Added uninstallation instructions
- Improvement: Added upgrade instructions for the Extension Installer and manual upgrade
iSense 8 years ago
SEO BackPack 2.0.1 (Release log 2 out of 3)
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- Improvement: The module will not rename the image 'no_image.png' in order to avoid errors showing that the image does not exist, but was assigned to a product
- Improvement: Added instructions to temporary disable & enable the module in case of unexpected errors
- Improvement: Stripping tags and decoding the html characters for the description field in the structured data
- Bug-fix: Fixed issue with image renamer when it is showing that the image does not exist if it is located in the base of the 'image' folder
- Bug-fix: Added checks for categories, products and information pages generation of meta tags when the queries for that specific entity does not return any data (e.g. the product is not correctly saved, some of the data is missing or your table is corrupt)
iSense 8 years ago
SEO BackPack 2.0.1 (Release log 1 out of 3)
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- Bug-fix: Fixes for the generation of SEO URLs regarding unexpected/not supported characters by the browsers
- Bug-fix: Fix for the getSiteName() functionality if you are running multi-lingual installation on your store
- Bug-fix: Added `escape` function for the contents in meta title, description and keyword tags for the products
- Bug-fix: Added `escape` function for the contents in meta title, description and keyword tags for the categories
- Bug-fix: Added `escape` function for the contents in meta title, description and keyword tags for the information pages
Rickib3 8 years ago
as a dedicated customer of yours both on this marketplace and your website, just bought it and best of luck with sales!
iSense 8 years ago
Hey Ricki,
Hope all is going well with you. Thanks a lot for your support and let us know if there is anything we can help with.
schiggi 8 years ago
Hello,
can this product set canonical urls for products or even categories?
For example, multiple products are just different color variations of one main product, but handled as separate products in the database. Setting a canoncial to one specific product for the sub products would be very helpful to avoid duplicate content. Same problem, but different issue approach: Products reachable via main category (store.com/category1/productA), sub-category (store.com/category1/subcategory1/productA) or even direct (store.com/productA).
How do you handle these problems?
iSense 8 years ago
Hello there
OpenCart is already using canonicals and it is using them pretty well
Here is an example from our demo page
http://seobackpack.demo.isenselabs.com/components/monitors/samsung-syncmaster-941bw
http://seobackpack.demo.isenselabs.com/samsung-syncmaster-941bw
as you can see, the first link is a nested product in two categories
and the second link is the same product but with a direct link
If you check the source, you will notice that both links has the same canonical URL
http://seobackpack.demo.isenselabs.com/samsung-syncmaster-941bw
Hope this helps!
