SEO

Excluding the login page from Google’s index (Magento 2)

Mex 15. August 2023 Magento Solutions

By default, the login page /customer/account/login/referer/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FuaWRvZS5kZS9jdXN0b21lci9hY2NvdW50L2luZGV4Lw~~/ may be indexed by search engines such as Google. To prevent this, create or override the file customer_account_login.xml in your theme and add the following code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <head>
        <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
    </head>
</page>

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<head>

</head>

</page>

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Removing the pager from catalog/seo_sitemap/product and catalog/seo_sitemap/category (Magento 1)

Mex 19. Oktober 2022 Magento Solutions

To remove pagination from the Magento 1 SEO sitemap URLs for products (catalog/seo_sitemap/product) and categories (catalog/seo_sitemap/category), showing everything on one page, open your theme’s layout/catalog.xml and remove the following two lines:

<block type="page/html_pager" name="seo.sitemap.pager.top" as="pager_top" template="page/html/pager.phtml"/>
<block type="page/html_pager" name="seo.sitemap.pager.bottom" as="pager_bottom" template="page/html/pager.phtml"/>

1 2	<block type="page/html_pager" name="seo.sitemap.pager.top" as="pager_top" template="page/html/pager.phtml"/> <block type="page/html_pager" name="seo.sitemap.pager.bottom" as="pager_bottom" template="page/html/pager.phtml"/>

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SEO tip: URLs for translated content in Magento 1 and 2

Mex 10. April 2018 Magento Solutions

If your Magento store supports several languages, you should also give translated content, such as product pages, distinct URLs for each language. If your German product page is called www.ihreseite.de/ihrprodukt.htm, the English product page should, for example, use www.ihreseite.de/yourproduct.htm lauten.

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Suspiciously high bounce rates among Safari users (Magento 1)

Mex 23. August 2013 Magento Solutions

When opening a new tab in Safari, frequently visited websites may be displayed. Safari generates the previews by requesting those pages again, causing additional page views to be recorded in tools such as Google Analytics or Bing Webmaster Tools. This…

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Excluding the login page from Google’s index (Magento 2)

Removing the pager from catalog/seo_sitemap/product and catalog/seo_sitemap/category (Magento 1)

SEO tip: URLs for translated content in Magento 1 and 2

Suspiciously high bounce rates among Safari users (Magento 1)