Comments on: Adding Metatags to ZenCart

By: Wolf

Wolf — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:45:53 +0000

Waqas Malik: Why would hitting the code in the header be any different than in the footer?

By: waqas malik

waqas malik — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:51:44 +0000

But adding google analytic in header may slow down the site!!!!!!!!
Is not it better to add it in footer.tpl in current working template?:(

By: Brian P

Brian P — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:44:07 +0000

I am trying to make changes on my zen cart but this is really hard man! I would have to say this is not the most friendly script I have worked with.

By: iMacker

iMacker — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:12:46 +0000

The simplest way without even using a mod is this method found here http://surreystore.com/Forums/joomla-help/zencart-google-analytic-integration/

By: Wolf

Wolf — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:46:46 +0000

Thanks for the resource, Gulam Ali.

By: Gulam Ali

Gulam Ali — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:14:08 +0000

Thanks for the effort you took to expand upon this post so thoroughly.
Why valid html code is important to your web site’s search engine optimization efforts and consequent high rankings! Such invalid html codes… A single missing bracket in your html code can be the cause your web page cannot be found in search engines… Providentially, there are free services that allow you to check and fix the validity of your html codes.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:08:19 +0000

@SEO Google doesn’t change anything on your site. If you erase the verification code, it stays gone. BTW, this was true 2 years ago, but it may be different today.

By: SEO

SEO — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:53:44 +0000

Great info. Didn’t know what it was until I googled it and this site comes up. Can I erase the meta tag verify-vl? And will google “replace” it?

By: Wolf

Wolf — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:12:20 +0000

The first part is a hack that puts the google-link in as a metatag on every page that calls the header info, and is a literal pull from my research on the forums, however the second way is (if I recall correctly) how I actually handled it. If you go ahead and add the variable META_TAG_VERIFY-VL with content that I put above as being “Whatever Google says to put here,” and then copy the proper syntax and format of the line that will call a variable on the header file ’site/includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/html_header.php’ you have to make sure it is the same variable name in both the define statement and the call statement. I don’t remember why I didn’t include that piece in the article. What I ended up doing was just making a (consider the % to be the same as a right or left arrow. WordPress won’t let me write html code in the comment field)
Why not put both metatag contents in your html_header.php file, under the existing metatags?
%meta name=”verify-v1? content=”Whatever Google says it should be” /%
and
%meta name=”verify-vl? content=”Whatever Google says it should be”

The “whatever Google says…” part is the string Google has linked to your analytics account. For security reasons, and because I can’t remember it, I am not publishing mine in plain text on the web site.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:13:28 +0000

//Wolfs attempt to add GoogleAnalytics
define(’META_TAG_VERIFY-VL’, ‘Whatever Google says this value should be’);

do you mean: ’META_TAG_VERIFY-V1’ or is it really VL…

I can’t get this to work… I have a ZENCART site. Really wish it had GA running on it.

Please help…

Drew