We launched a HTML 5 Website last year in an attempt to judge, if there was any SEO benefits from using the cleaner, robot friendly HTML5 Code.

Unfortunately, it seems not, our platform? Website Design Chesterfield

Website design chesterfield has had some great results, but still only as good as, if not a little worse than our Web Design Mansfield site.

So, whilst HTML5 may provide cleaner code – it does not seem to increase search engine rankings.

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Nows the time to try it – ideal if you’re a small business owner looking to get more tech savvy – or get that opencart store of yours some much needed SEO Tweaks!

This is a post regarding 301 Redirects with OpenCart and OpenCart 1.5 / 1.5.1

Are you having a problem with your OpenCart SEO? Are you trying to add 301 Redirects?

Are you getting ?_route_= added to the end of your redirects and Error Not Found Message?

There is one fix, that will work, it does however still change the target URL, you have to add an ?, yes a question mark!

Here’s an example of what you’d use for a 301 Redirect in OpenCarts .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url?
or
Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url/?

I hope this helped you guys out!

I get a lot of OpenCart Related traffic to my site, interested in advertising or maybe you need some SEO Services for your OpenCart Store?  If you want to know more feel free to email me at:  seo@itsadam.co.uk

SEO Mansfield

This is just an example test just to show my highly ranking, busy traffic blog site will do for the term search engine optimisation Mansfield, or SEO Mansfield, whatever really.

My personal blog is in a lot of the top 3 results on page one of Google for a vast range of terms, including ones like OpenCart 1.5 Templates / Themes etc.

From OpenCart to Web Design Randomness, the SEO power of this blog seems to be rather immense, and I’m pretty sure I can show this off to potential clients on why writing blog posts is so important for search engine optimisation.

WordPress is awesome for SEO, it was built for blogs, helping to get peoples ramblings, ideas and points of view across to the world, with the post Categories and Post tags, along with some awesome SEO plugins available for free, it’s made WordPress the perfect framework to build a search engine friendly CMS site with.

If you’re interested in SEO / Search Engine Optimisation and you’re from the Mansfield / Nottinghamshire area then feel free to contact dijitul via: www.dijitul.co.uk or 01623 650 333.

We’re fantastic at what we do!

- Web Design Mansfield

This is how you have Automatic OpenCart 1.5 SEO Friendly URL Creation.

It’s a dead easy cool fix

Open:
public_html/admin/view/template/common/header.tpl

Find
Paste Just Before: </head>

<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function(){
// Auto SEO URL by ItsAdam.co.uk
var keyword = $("input[name=keyword]").val();
if(!keyword){
$("input[name*='_description']").keyup(function(){
var text = $(this).val();
text = text.toLowerCase();
text = text.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/g,'_');
$("input[name=keyword]").val(text);
});}})
// ]]></script>

Save, Upload – Job Done

This will make the SEO from your Product Name!

This mod is tested on OpenCart version(s): 1.5.0, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5

Enjoy!

Also, if you’re looking for a SEO Company that have experience with opencart then contact Dijitul.com Ltd, mention this website for a good price!

Or for a quick quote contact:   seo@itsadam.co.uk and we will discuss your OpenCart SEO Needs!

Have you upgraded to Opencart 1.5

Versions: v1.5.0.3 v1.5.0.2 v1.5.0.1 v1.5.0

I had problems getting the SEO Friendly URLS to work on my Opencart 1.5.0.3 install, after looking in the HTACCESS file I found this:

RewriteBase /opencart/upload/

The fix to make the SEO Friendly URLS – MOD REWRITE work change that line to:

RewriteBase /

Basically just remove the opencart/upload/  part!

There we go! Problem Solved!”

Alternatively if you’re unsure about editing files, simply upload the .htaccess file saved here, tested on the OpenCart versions 1.5.0.3 and below:

> Download the fixed .htaccess file

Are you looking to get your OpenCart Store ranked in google? contact:   seo@itsadam.co.uk and we will discuss your OpenCart SEO Needs!

As a fun little experiment I’ve decided to make a HTML 5 “landing” site for local search terms.

So along comes the Web Design Chesterfield web site.

This website will focus on SEO Chesterfield, Ecommerce Chesterfield and Graphic Design Chesterfield.

The idea is to really see the difference between using HTML 5 and HTML 4 for SEO Purposes.

From new structure of HTML 5, search engines should be able to take more note on what area of a website is what.

For example, a companies address is wrapped in the <address> tag, the Navigation is wrapped in <nav> and so on.

Anyway, stay tuned for the results of the little test experiment with HTML 5

We’re getting close to launching our WordPress Web Design Website.  It’ll be featuring exciting new WordPress Themes built solely around being SearchEngine Friendly.

These wordpress themes will mainly be built as a Framework to allow other designers and developers the ability to creative nice, affordable websites for clients with a large amount of customisation via the Theme Options page, and of course all themes are HTML and CSS 2/3 Valid!

Stay Tuned for the Lauch of the WordPress Web Design Site, I’ll be giving away discount codes!

I wrote a while ago on the MinuteDesigns blog about web standards and seo, where people constantly spam saying that web standards play no part in organic listing ranks.

Today I was asked about this again, so I dug out my old email from google, feel free to post comments.

Heres the email:
(Feel free to contact me for a forward of the original)

> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:15:05 +0000
> From: adwords-support@google.com
> To: adam@minutedesigns.com
> Subject: Re: [#232902566] Adwords, Pagerank and Content
>
> Hello Adam,
>
> Thank you for your email. I understand that you want to know whether
> valid HTML and CSS help in better organic search and AdWords ad rankings.
> Please note that clean HTML codes and CSS help improve rankings because
> they make it easier for our crawlers to find information. Sites’ positions
> in our search results are determined based on a number of factors designed
> to provide end-users with helpful, accurate search results. These factors
> are explained in more detail at
> http://www.google.com/technology/index.html.
>
> In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing
> the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. To learn more
> about inclusion and ranking in the Google index, please visit our online
> Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters. Here, you’ll find
> answers to users’ most frequently asked questions.
>
> To know more about how you can improve your site’s ranking, please visit
> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34432&hl=en_US
>
> If you have additional questions about your site, we encourage you to
> check out Google’s webmaster tools. Our webmaster tools can provide you
> with comprehensive information about your site, including which search
> queries trigger your website listing in our search results, potential
> indexing problems, and errors our crawlers may have encountered trying to
> access your pages. Get started with Google’s webmaster tools at
> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools?hl=en_US.
>
> We welcome you to post any webmaster-related feedback or questions in our
> Webmaster Help Google Group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help. Here you’ll find
> helpful conversations with both Googlers and experienced non-Googlers.
>
> If you have additional questions, please visit our Help Center at
> https://adwords.google.com/support to find answers to many frequently
> asked questions. Or, try our Learning Center at
> http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/ for self-paced lessons that
> cover the scope of AdWords.
>
> We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising
> available.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rupam
> The Google AdWords Team
>
>
> —————-
> Want more info on AdWords? Check out the official AdWords Blog, “Inside
> AdWords,” at http://adwords.blogspot.com to get the latest news,
> information and tips.
>
> Original Message Follows:
> ————————
> From: adam@minutedesigns.com
> Subject: Adwords, Pagerank and Content
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:14:43 -0800
>
> Hi there I was wondering if you could help me.
>
> I’ve read that Clean and Valid HTML and CSS in my website would make my
> website rank better within google? Is this true or not? And also would
> it help my Adwords too?
>
> Thanks Alot
> Adam King
>
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> AdsUserLocale:
> AdwordsReferral: 1
> CategorySubcategory:
> HelpCenter: V2
> Language: en
> Name: Adam King
> login_email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> profile_Name: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> website: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>