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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento is a feature-rich, professional open source e-commerce solution that offers users complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Although Magento provides users with the power to create dynamic e-commerce sites, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and create sites that are tailored to your unique business needs.This book gives you a hands-on experience on Magento, helping you increase your revenue by implementing proven sales tactics on your Magento site.This book contains techniques to help you with each stage of selling to your customers: attracting visitors, driving them to your product pages, making the sale, increasing sales, engaging your customers, and more. It contains a powerful mix of techniques for increasing sales in your online storefront. Over thirty of the techniques are short and stand alone. A few are designed to be used together, such as the seven techniques in the chapter on creating an international storefront. Some techniques make creative use of Magento’s standard features. A few techniques combine Magento with other tools, such as social networking sites. All the techniques are explained in clear, step-by-step directions, with many screenshots. The book uses an example site for each technique, so that you can see exactly how it will affect your storefront. You can jump into the book at any point, or, work through it from beginning to end.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Using title prefix or suffix to add the store name to page titles


In the first section of this chapterAdd meta information, you saw that search engines use the page title as one of their criteria for ranking a page and matching search queries to that page. You also saw that you enter the page title for a product page. This makes every product page's title unique.

Sometimes, you might want every page in your site to have some common text in its title. For example, you might want every page to have the name of your store. This is especially true when common text is a search term for which you want every page to be shown.

In our demonstration store, we might want "Online Coffee Store" to be added to every page's title. This is a common search phrase that could apply to every page.

You can add a prefix, a suffix, or both to every page's title. The prefix will be added in front of the page title, and the suffix will be added to the end of the page title. In the following screenshot, Blue Mountain Coffee is the name of the page. Online Coffee Store is a suffix that gets added to the title of every page on the site:

How to do it...

  1. 1. Log in to your site's backend, or Administrative Panel.

  2. 2. Select System | Configuration. The Configuration page displays.

  3. 3. From the General section, select Design. The Design page displays.

  4. 4. Scroll down to the section for HTML Head.

  5. 5. Enter the prefix or suffix into the field for Title Prefix or Title Suffix.

  6. 6. Click on the Save Config button.

How it works...

Let's take a look at the HTML code for this page. When we view the source code, we see that the suffix has been added to the "title" text:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title> Blue Mountain Coffee Online Coffee Store</title>

There's more...

Under Configuration | General | Design, scroll further down the page, and you will see a field labeled Miscellaneous HTML. This is HTML code that is added to the end of every page in your store.

However, remember that the code doesn't need to be permanent. For example, in our online coffee store, we could put a coffee-related quote in this field, and change the quote whenever we wanted a fresh one. We could add links to websites for coffee lovers. You can add any HTML code here, if you think it will enhance your pages' search engine performance or just add value for your visitors.