Hi all,
Sorry for the non-stop posts lately. It’s just busy season at HC, I guess.
I’ve just added two new fields to your Store Settings >> Profile pages (near the top). One is called Keywords, and the other is called Store Description. Please fill these in for your store. They will show up in the meta tags at the top of your store page (they won’t be visible in a browser, but the search engines use these tags to find and index sites). Use the most relevant keywords you can think of for the types of items you carry in your store — for example, hand-dyed yarns, cloth diapers, organic childrens’ clothes, etc.
For the description, just fill in a short blurb about your store and re-iterate the types of items you carry.
I’ve also made some other changes to help optimize your listing pages to be found by search engines:
- The item title is now part of the title meta tag (and also shows up in the top part of the browser bar
- Your tags are now entered as keywords in the meta tags
- The first part of your item description is used in the description meta tag
Thanks everyone!
I’ve tried leaving keywords and the description several times (following the instructions in red below the appropriate spaces), and when I go back nothing is showing there.
Thanks for all the improvements you continue to make! I’m off to SEO-ize my store.
~Amy Sue
Thanks so much, this change was really needed! I have another cart too that has more built-in SEO and HC was picking up very few direct-search hits compared to the other. Fortunately there is the calendar and community here–nos the SEO will only make a good thing even better.
Thanks for fixing the problem, Karen! These are wonderful additions.