deepee Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) I've been going through the many changes and issues on my 1.5.6 to 1.6.05 upgraded test site. I tried editing an existing product and adding a new one but can't find the keywords field in the Product's SEO tab any more? Anyone know what's happened to it? Edited March 23, 2014 by deepee (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestamax Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 The meta tag keywords is obsolete. google doesn't care about it and recommends not to spend any time on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemoPS Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 as prestamax said, keywords are no longer used by google so Prestashop wisely took them off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepee Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Thanks to all for the feedback. That should save a lot of time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hucklesauce Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 as prestamax said, keywords are no longer used by google so Prestashop wisely took them off So when Google decides that they want to start using them again Presta users won't have the option to input product meta tags. Why take it out? Why not just leave the option in and let us decide if we want to input anything into that field. Stupid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestamax Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I am pretty sure that google won't go back to keyword tags. The reason google is ignoring keyword tags is because keyword tags have been misused quite too often. You should be glad that there is no option for keyword tags. It saves your time and protects you from being punished by google for keyword stuffing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingnet Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I am pretty sure that google won't go back to keyword tags. The reason google is ignoring keyword tags is because keyword tags have been misused quite too often. You should be glad that there is no option for keyword tags. It saves your time and protects you from being punished by google for keyword stuffing. it is possible to be punished by google if our sites (older versions prestashop) still contains meta keywords? Sorry if it's a silly question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestamax Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 No, you don't get punished for meta keywords just for keyword stuffing.https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66358?hl=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingnet Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Thank you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valo Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 it is nice to know that Google doesn´t read the Meta-keys. But what about the other search engines ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanKimble Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 How about a way to clear out keywords in existing products? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aljon ngo Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 if there is no meta keywords, what does google use as a basis of searching? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seirios Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 My friends, Simply your Google ranking is based on bids (adwords e.c.t) and not on keywords. You pay, you are listed. That is my opinion and i pay even 1.8 euro pre click for the first page. So marketing is over programming...) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anuinanuin Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Ok, but what about other search engines, like Bing, Yandex, etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolArts Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Ok, but what about other search engines, like Bing, Yandex, etc. That's exactly what i'm asking myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sid maier Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 No, you don't get punished for meta keywords just for keyword stuffing. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66358?hl=en can I ask, if google does not read keywords, why this field is left in the category backpage? So when Google decides that they want to start using them again Presta users won't have the option to input product meta tags. Why take it out? Why not just leave the option in and let us decide if we want to input anything into that field. how to implement this option? with best wishes and good luck to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ava M. Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 (edited) Hello, If you would still like to add meta keywords, I found this great script: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/185401-free-script-product-mass-edit-category-multi-edit-order-edit/ With it, there is an option to edit and add meta keywords. When you 'view source' you will see your keywords have been added I am happy with this, because I feel I would rather (and could be better) to have keywords added then nothing at all as it is still unsure whether keywords are useful and/or necessary for other search engines. I still cannot wrap my head around not adding keywords and will be doing some research as to what is best option and how your products/pages can be found without keywords? Again, I am very happy I have found way to add keywords if is your preference. Edited November 3, 2014 by Ava M. (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestamax Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 @Ava cool script ... thanks for the link. I won't use it for key words though but mass edit products is what I have missed all the time. So thanks again .. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sid maier Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Hello, If you would still like to add meta keywords, I found this great script: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/185401-free-script-product-mass-edit-category-multi-edit-order-edit/ With it, there is an option to edit and add meta keywords. When you 'view source' you will see your keywords have been added I am happy with this, because I feel I would rather (and could be better) to have keywords added then nothing at all as it is still unsure whether keywords are useful and/or necessary for other search engines. I still cannot wrap my head around not adding keywords and will be doing some research as to what is best option and how your products/pages can be found without keywords? Again, I am very happy I have found way to add keywords if is your preference. thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppokrovsky Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Figured all you need to do in 1.6.0.8 (at least), is to remove 'hide' class from following block in admin/themes/default/template/controllers/products/seo.tpl {* Removed for simplicity *}<div class="form-group hide"><label class="control-label col-lg-3" for="meta_keywords_{$id_lang}">{include file="controllers/products/multishop/checkbox.tpl" field="meta_keywords" type="default" multilang="true"}<span class="label-tooltip" data-toggle="tooltip"title="{l s='Keywords for search engines, separated by commas.'}">{l s='Meta keywords'}</span></label><div class="col-lg-8">{include file="controllers/products/input_text_lang.tpl" languages=$languagesinput_value=$product->meta_keywordsinput_name='meta_keywords'}</div></div> It appears that meta keywords functionality still present in code, it is simply hidden in layout. I didnot thoroughly test the changes, although everything seem to work just fine. Use it on your own risk 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dformica Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 as prestamax said, keywords are no longer used by google so Prestashop wisely took them off Correct me if I'm wrong but PrestasShop also used this field for searches within the site. I see the "meta keywords" field is still available in the CSV import. Is it still used for site searching? I don't see it recorded anywhere in the database. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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