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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 Joomla!


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

Getting ready

The biggest mistake that clients make with regard to metadata is that they use site wide metadata. Joomla! even has a box where you can enter site wide meta descriptions and keywords.

The key to having highly effective metadata is to specifically tailor it to each and every page. It will then have precisely the right keywords for every article. Google will notice the continuity and your search rank for the page might improve because of it.

But even more important than this is your future readers/customers 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 click and get the full information.

So as you go from article to article, entering your metadata, do not be tempted to speed...