Yahoo store how do I change metatags

I am managing a yahoo store and for the life of me cannot figure how to change meta tags. If someone can walk me thru it, please post or PM

 

are you a legacy store or an MS store? I think its different for both.

If its a legacy store, you have a head template that stores your meta tags in it. This could be different depending on how the store is laid out though. There is yahoo store forum at http://newforums.ystoretools.com/ with RTML programmers and lots of store owners who can help in more detail.

 

Thanks, I will go on that forum. The problem I am having is that when I am changing meta tags for a page, it does the same thing on every page and right now every page is showing the same title indexed in Google. Its a legacy store

 

The yahoostore forum is not loading. Is it a different url?

 

OHHHHH

If you want to change for a single item you have to go to that page in your editor and make a new variable. Again, how you do this depends on your store as well. Over-riding meta tags on a page by page level is tedious, I don't think many do that.

If you are just editting your "title" tag, usually you can go to the page, create a new variable called "page-title" (text) and type in your title.

Meta tags (keyword, description) can be a little more involved. If you want page by page control, I can edit your template real quick to make it possible.

Here is an example of my meta keywords tag:

  META name "keywords"
       content GRAB 
                 @name
                 IF test AND 
                           up
                           NOT EQUALS value1 up
                                      value2 :index
                    then MULTI 
                           WITH-OBJECT up
                             TEXT ","
                             TEXT @name

Code (markup):

If you want to modify yours on a page level, you'd want code something like this: (this is quick and won't be exact)

META name "keywords"
        content TEST if @keywords
                    then @keywords
                    else "generic keywords here"

Code (markup):

And on the page, if you want to insert keywords, you'd make a variable called "keywords" (text) and type in text there.

These are basic functions though. Have you editted in yahoo store before? If you are a bit new at it, you want to tread carefully. Damage can be hard to repair

No the url is accurate, but it can run OBSCENELY slow at times.

 

This is my first time and I will be careful. All I want to do is change the titles. On 2,200 pages. Checking it out now.

 

page titles? is that all? Here's the easy code!

It's actually in your page template (on top, in the HEAD area, of course)

TITLE IF test @page-title
            then TEXT @page-title
            elese TEXT @name

Code (markup):

make a variable called "page-title" on the pages you want to change.

You can make it more complex with a GRAB command

GRAB
   TEXT @name
   TEXT "at my super cool store"

Code (markup):

indenting is important, so get familar with "paste after" and "paste within".

 

OK thanks a lot. Havent seen an option to add variables, but checking it out now!

 

On item pages, its called "add property" and "override property" if you are setting a new variable, you want "add property"

 

Clicked on edit and came to Create New Property
what type do I select?

 

for that, you'd select text or big text. same thing really. you need to type page-title into the name of it too

 

lorien1973, thanks a lot for the info, I was also looking for the same... I will try it...

 

Can you give me an example for a variable?

 

What are you looking for? I can give you a screenshot of an item page or a screenshot of my template. Might make things a little easier. If you are serious to get to know RTML, I'd really pick up this book:

http://www.ytimes.info/bookabyahsto.html

Its really, a lot like coding in C after you get used to things. Since I hate coding, I hire people to do anything difficult for me.

 

A screenshot would be great if you have one.

 

Ok. Not sure how helpful it'll be..but here ya go. This is from one of my stores. 4 images complete process on how to edit your page-title.


For you, your head section (page. template) probably is a lot more simple:

HEAD
     TITLE IF test @page-title
                 then TEXT @page-title
                 else  @name

Code (markup):

This says if "page-title" variable exists and is not blank, then use the text as the title of the page, otherwise use what is in the "name" field as the title of the page

I want to over-ride my page title, so I go to a product page and hit EDIT


Click "new property" on this screen, then


Create the property, just like you see here.

Then


See the "page-title" variable at the bottom. If you type something there and hit update; the new title should show up as the title of the page. If it does not, your template is not coded properly or you mis-defined the variable.



EDIT:

This is not very efficient, though for very large stores. If you want to do it for one or two page, great. But across the site, this sucks. If you are wanting a certain page-title across the site, gimme what you are looking for and I can probably tell you the easiest way to set that up.

 

OK that should do it. What I want to do is have a different title for each and every page based on the products listed. www.furnitureforsale.com is the site.

 

Yes I see that. It doesn't appear to have a title tag set at all in the template. Nice.

Copy my title section and you'll be more than happy with the results

 

Dude, thank you so much!

 

btw solid cactus designed the template. Wasn´t sure if this is something to do on their end? Still the url of the pages shows in the title