1. Start
  2. Feature list
  3. Requirements
  4. Installation
  5. Custom "admin" folder name configuration
  6. SEO URLs
  7. SEO Settings
  8. Auto Generators
  9. Descriptions
  10. Social Media
  11. Google Webmaster Tools
  12. Google Analytics
  13. Site Map
  14. FAQ
  15. Skip Convert URLs
  16. Update
  17. Store Meta Tags
  18. SEO Features
  19. Uninstall
  20. Conclusion

SEO Mega KIT PLUS

Feature list

  1. SEO Title Generator for all products
  2. Meta Keyword Generator for all products
  3. Meta Description Generator for all products
  4. SEO URL Generator for products, categories, manufacturers and information pages
  5. SEO Friendly URLs for all pages
    • Example 1
      Standard URL:
         /index.php?route=product/product&path=57&product_id=49
      With SEO Mega KIT, before use SEO URLs Generator:
         /c,57,tablets/p,49,samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1.html
      With SEO Mega KIT, after use SEO URLs Generator:
         /tablets/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1.html

    • Example 2 - PAGINATION
      Standard URL:
         /index.php?route=product/manufacturer/info&manufacturer_id=8&sort=p.sort_order&order=ASC&page=2&limit=15
      With SEO Mega KIT:
         /apple;sort,p.sort_order,order,ASC,page,2,limit,15
  6. Sitemap Generator
  7. Tag Generator for all products
  8. Canonical categories and brands
  9. Automatically create SEO Friendly names for images
  10. SEO Manager
  11. Auto Generator:
    1. SEO URL - when adding new product, category, manufacturer or information pages
    2. SEO Title - when adding new product
    3. Meta Keyword - when adding new product
    4. Meta Description - when adding new product
    5. Tags - when adding new product
  12. Clean with one click:
    1. SEO URLs for products, categories, manufacturers and information pages
    2. SEO Titles for all products
    3. SEO Heading (H1) Titles for all products
    4. Meta Keywords for all products
    5. Meta Description for all products
    6. Tags for all products
  13. Multilingual support
  14. Make friendly URLs for custom routes
  15. Translate friendly URLs (login, register, checkout, etc...) to another language
  16. Breadcrumb microdata description
  17. Product microdata description
  18. Multilingual home page meta items: Meta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords
  19. SEO Heading (H1) Title Generator for all products
  20. Custom Meta Title for products, categories, manufacturers and information pages
  21. Custom Heading (H1) Title for products, categories, manufacturers and information pages

Requirements

  1. vQmod version 2.4.0 or above (latest always recommended)
  2. Apache Module mod_rewrite
  3. PHP mb_string extension

Installation

  1. Upload all files inside the upload folder to your OpenCart folder, maintaining the directory structure within.
  2. Find the file ".htaccess" in main OpenCart folder. If you only have the file ".htaccess.txt", rename it to ".htaccess".

    Inside the .htaccess file, find the following code:
    RewriteRule ^download/(.*) /index.php?route=error/not_found [L]

    On a new line after this, add the following:
    RewriteRule ^image-smp/(.*) index.php?route=product/smp_image&name=$1 [L]

    After modification, the file should look something like this:

  3. We also recommend removing the RewriteBase / from the file completely, however in some installations this doesn't work correctly. If this is the case, you will need to put the line back
  4. If you need to put the RewriteBase / back and your store is in a subfolder, you'll need to edit the RewriteBase / to RewriteBase /yoursubfoldername/. For example, if your store is http://www.yourstore.com/shop/ you will need to have RewriteBase /shop/ on that line
  5. Go to: System > Users > User Groups
  6. Click [Edit] for Top Administrator in the listing, or your administrator group name if you have a different one
  7. Click [Select All] for Access Permission and Modify Permission
  8. Click Save
  9. Go to: Extensions > Modules
  10. Click [Install] for SEO Mega KIT
  11. Configure the parameters for extension SEO Images - e.g.:

    and click the Clear button after this
  12. If you want you can also set the parameters for the other extensions or leave the default
  13. Click Save
  14. DONE !

Custom "admin" folder name

If the "admin" folder in your store has been changed for security reasons, you must update the following files:
  1. In both config.php and admin/config.php add:
    changing your_folder_name to the folder name that applies
  2. In the following files, replace all occurrences of the string admin/ to your_folder_name/
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_auto_generator.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_can_cat.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_store_settings.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_support_old_product_tags.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_titles_cmi.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_titles_generator.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_urls_generator.xml
  3. DONE !

First steps - What should I do after installing SMK ?

  1. Configuration settings for SEO URLs
    Before generating SEO URLs go to Settings -> URLs and configure settings below as you want them.





    Additionally, you can add an extension to your URLs such as .html, which is automatically added when URL addresses for products and information pages are generated. In order to configure these, you need to go to Extensions(1) -> SEO-URLs(2) and then click (3) and edit the extension(4)





    After clicking Generate for all(5) you will see a new window with a table containing information about the items found in database that do not have generated SEO URLs addresses yet. To confirm their generation click GENERATE



SEO settings for products, information pages, categories and manufacturers

  1. Configuration settings
    After choosing section Extensions(1) -> Products(2) / Information Pages / Categories / Manufacturers you will see a list of available generators.



    Clicking on the icon next to each(3) opens/closes the parameter box for that specific item(4)



    Click GENERATE(5) next to the various items to generate the individual items. You will then see a window with a table containing information about the items found in database without generated content. To confirm their generation click GENERATE one more time.

    When the configuration is finished, click SAVE(6) located in the upper right corner.

Auto Generators

  1. Configuration settings
    This applies to items generated automatically as part of adding/editing your products, categories etc. Remember: If you've provided data for these items yourself in the editor, the item will not be overwritten by the auto generator. For example, after generator activation Automatically create SEO URLs when adding or editing product, if you change product name during editing, the SEO URL won't change, except when you clear the SEO Keyword from it's previous value.

    To automate this go to Extensions(1) -> Auto Generators(2) and select the checkboxes(3) next to the items you want to be generated automatically and confirm with SAVE(4)



Automatic description generation

  1. Configuration settings
    Choosing Extensions(1) -> Descriptions(2) you will see the generators list for products, categories and manufacturers



    The first step is to configure the templates that will be used to create descriptions. To do this, click on (3) and using the list of available parameters, enter the content of the template.



    After configuring the parameters, click SAVE

Social Media

  1. Configuration settings
    To enable the display of Social widgets go to Extras(1) -> Facebook/Google+ Widget(2) then click Enable(3) and enter the URL of your social site.(4)



    The Facebook design example The Google+ design example
  1. Facebook Open Graph / Twitter Cards
    Facebook Open Graph - This allows you to integrate websites with Facebook. It allows control over the presentation of your content in the social network, giving better their interaction with customers.

    Twitter Cards - This is used to integrate your shop with Twitter, allowing you to preview the cart contents directly on this site before you click the link.

    Enabling these options will add additional information to the source code stored on each product page, such as the current price, a link to the product images and information about the author.



    After configuring the parameters, click SAVE

Google Webmaster Tools

  1. Configuration settings
    Google Webmaster Tools is a free web-based platform developed by Google for web administrators. It allows you to check the status of indexing of your site by Google and optimise the visibility of your pages.

    To use the information available, you must first verify domain ownership. For this purpose choose the Settings(1) -> Webmaster Tools(2) section. There you should give the webmaster tools verification code. More information on how to generate Google Site Verification value can be found at Webmaster Tools



Google Analytics

  1. Configuration settings
    Google Analytics is a free tool for statistics analysis of your website

    More information about how to generate the tracking code can be found at Google Analytics

    To add a previously generated statistics code Google Analytics go to Settings(1) -> Google Analytics(2)



    and paste the entire contents of the box, as shown in the picture below:



    After configuring the parameters, click SAVE

SiteMap

  1. What is a sitemap?
    A sitemap is a list of URLs leading to all the pages in your online store. Linking search engines to your sitemap ensures they know of all of your web pages.

    To generate a sitemap, go to the SiteMap tab at the top of SMK, then click the GENERATE button located in the upper right corner.

    When generation completes, you will see a list of generated files XML. URLs for all files whose name ends in .index.xml should be sent to the site WebmasterTools:
    The others in the list (the ones not bold) are referenced in the index.xml files for the search engines to use and don't need submitting individually.



    More information can be found here.

    URLs will only need to be submitted to WebmasterTools once. From that moment Google will periodically download any data of these files at regular intervals. However, remember to update the information stored in the XML files. For this purpose use the CRON tab where you can configure the automatic generation of sitemaps:

FAQ

  1. Why URLs are in the format /c,57,tablets/p,49,samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1.html instead of /tablets/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1.html ?
    The URLs are automatic, but you'll need to use the generator for URLs to have the format /tablets/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1.html. To generate them:

  2. How do I change the URL address from http://yourstore.com/account/login to http://yourstore.com/login ?
    This can be done as follows:

  3. Why after installing SMK is my site much slower to load pages ?
    Caching is needed to speed up loading pages. You can activate it as follows:



    Note the cache only stores information about URLs
  4. How do I enable short URLs for my products ?
    To change product URLs from:
    http://yourstore.com/category-name-1/category-name-2/product-name to:
    http://yourstore.com/product-name you should do the following:



    Enabling the above function does not affect the operation of other functions such as SMK package descriptions extended (Rich snippets) or the navigation controls (breadcrumbs).

Skip Convert URLs

Update

  1. Upload all files inside the upload folder to your OpenCart folder.
  2. Go to: Extensions > Modules
  3. Go to: [Edit] for SEO Mega KIT
  4. DONE !

Store Meta Tags

  1. Go to: System > Settings
  2. Click [Edit] for your store
  3. Click [Store] tab

SEO Features

  1. SEO Title
  2. SEO Heading Title

Uninstall

  1. If possible go to Extensions > SEO Mega KIT > [Edit] and click the button Clear for: SEO Urls Generator
  2. Go to Extension > SEO Mega KIT and click [Uninstall]
  3. Login via FTP
  4. Remove files:
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_auto_generator.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_can_cat.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_extras.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_fb_og_tw_c.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_microdata.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_seo_image.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_store_settings.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_titles_cmi.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_titles_generator.xml
    • vqmod/xml/seo_mega_pack_urls_generator.xml

    • admin/controller/module/seo-mega-pack - remove this folder
    • admin/controller/module/seo_mega_pack.php

    • admin/language/english/module/seo_mega_pack.php

    • admin/view/template/module/seo_mega_pack.tpl
    • admin/view/template/module/seo_mega_pack_about.tpl
    • admin/view/template/module/seo_mega_pack_generate.tpl
    • admin/view/template/module/seo_mega_pack_help.tpl
    • admin/view/template/module/seo_mega_pack_manager.tpl

    • catalog/controller/common/seo_mega_pack_pro_url.php

    • catalog/controller/product/smp_image.php
  5. DONE !

Conclusion

Thank you so much for purchasing this extension. If you have any questions or problems, please raise a support ticket