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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Entering your metadata into VirtueMart


You may wonder what is entering metadata into VirtueMart all about or if you have not prepared metadata please take a look at the Writing great metadata recipe When your ready to go read on.

Getting ready

At the risk of repeating myself if you have completed the Entering your metadata in Joomla! recipe, the key to having a highly effective metadata is to specifically tailor it to each and every product as well as each product category.

Each page crawled by Google will then have precisely the right metadata to match the contents. Google will notice the continuity and your search rank for the page might improve because of it.

But even more than this is people searching for your products or range will see your meta description in the search engine results page and it will be a finely tuned introduction with a call to action to find the product/range they are looking for.

So as you go from product-to-product and category-to-category entering your metadata, do...