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Harness the power of keyword research

Keyword research is crucial for driving organic traffic to your Magento store. Here’s why it matters and two fantastic tools to help you get started:

The power of keywords: Keywords are the foundation of successful SEO. They connect your products with potential customers searching for them. Using relevant keywords strategically boosts your visibility in search results.

The challenge of keyword research: For SEO beginners, identifying the right keywords can be daunting. But fear not! Keyword research tools come to the rescue, making the process easier and more effective. I have two tools that I use regularly:

• Google AdWords Keyword Tool: This free tool from Google provides valuable insights into keyword search volume, competition, and related terms. It’s an excellent starting point to discover relevant keywords for your products.

• Keywordtool.io: This versatile tool offers keyword suggestions from various sources, including Google, Bing, and YouTube. It provides long-tail keywords and even questions that users might ask, helping you target specific customer queries.

=> How to use them: Enter relevant product-related terms into these tools, and they will generate a list of potential keywords. Focus on high-volume and low-competition keywords to optimize your product pages effectively.

Combine short-tail keywords (generic terms with high search volume) with long-tail keywords (more specific phrases) (*this keyword have to same intent*)

🔍 Stay relevant and monitor: Keep an eye on your competitors and industry trends to ensure your chosen keywords remain relevant.

What do you think? Share the way you do keyword research!

Hello fellow Magento developers, I wrote a module to manage Magento’s cache via API. This module can:
Enable the cache(s).
Disable the cache(s).
Clean the cache(s).
Flush the cache(s).
Also off course this API is behind Admin ACL.
Let me know your expert thoughts and suggestions. Cheers.

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URL: https://github.com/tevtex/module-cachemanagement

Don’t fall into the duplicate content trap!

Avoid duplicate content on your Magento 2 product pages to maintain search engine credibility and attract more visitors. When multiple versions of the same page exist with slight variations in URLs or parameters, it can confuse search engine spiders. Here’s how to tackle it:

– Use canonical tags: Implement canonical tags to specify the preferred URL for search engines, consolidating the variations into one authoritative page.

– Set up URL parameters correctly: Ensure that URL parameters like sorting or pagination don’t create duplicate content. Use proper pagination tags and specify parameter handling in Google Search Console.

– Optimize meta tags: Craft unique and descriptive meta titles and descriptions for each product page. Avoid duplicating them across different variations.

– Enable product page filters: Implement user-friendly filters to enhance the browsing experience. Ensure that filter URLs don’t generate duplicate content.

– Leverage structured data: Implement structured data markup, such as schema.org, to provide search engines with clear information about your products and differentiate them from duplicates.

– Monitor crawl errors: Regularly check Google Search Console for crawl errors and address them promptly. Fixing broken links and resolving indexing issues helps maintain a healthy site structure.

– Prioritize unique content: Invest in high-quality, original product descriptions, images, and reviews to differentiate your pages from competitors and avoid duplicate content issues.

– Utilize URL rewrites: Create SEO-friendly URLs that accurately represent your products and avoid automatically generated URLs with unnecessary parameters.

– Stay vigilant with redirects: When necessary, set up proper 301 redirects from duplicate URLs to the canonical version to consolidate link equity and ensure a seamless user experience.

Which magento 1 version is most stable and still usable from this day?

Depreciated USPS Shipping methods; new USPS Ground Advantage method #37742

From what I can see, there has been no patch released to support USPS’s depreciation of First Class Mail and other services. They have been grouped together to a service called “USPS Ground Advantage”. Magento has no support for this shipping method.
What are you guys doing to work around this?

I am having challenges installing magento 2.4.0 with php 7.3.33 on Centos 7.

I am stuck at getting elasticsearch to work, when I start elasticsearch service it says “Job for elasticsearch.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status elasticsearch.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.”

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There are a lot of plugins out there, if you have an ecommerce store which plugin will you choose and why?

Which plugin is most suitable for your business?

We are getting 404 errors in Google Search Console when product names are changed. Should Magento be automatically creating a URL rewrite when product names are changed?

Hey everyone, Someone knows some real world use of Magento outside the e-commerce?

Does anyone know how to achieve the below?

We have designers who use our site. They would like to build a cart, but be able to send a link to their client to submit credit card information and pay for the order.

I’m searching for this extension (or a combination of extensions), but hard to find.

[WHAT I WANT]

• I want to build a paid-membership-based shop. (guest/unpaid members cannot buy)
• Each member has a limitation on the total amount of monthly purchasing. e.g. “Bronz member” can purchase up to $1000 per month from my shop, “Silver member” can purchase up to $5000.
• Membership period would be monthly or yearly.
• Each 1st day of the month, the purchase limit is reset.

Have you seen this kind of extension?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQLUbQOBYv0

I understand there’s a bunch of tutorials on Youtube, but I could not find one for the life of me that worked.

So after struggling for several days to get it working, I made my own tutorial to setup the development environment for windows so that hopefully, others won’t have to struggle as much as I did.

Please let me know if you have any questions and I’d be glad to help.

So this is a really weird issue I’m having with 2.4.5
When I create a configurable product I do all the usual work of inputting the data and then change the visibility to hidden until our stock has arrived.
When the stock has arrived, all I normally need to do is change the visibility and everything is fine.

Lately though, no matter what I do they just won’t appear on the site, although I can go direct to the product via the URL it’s not showing any of the options (size, colour).

The only way I’ve been able to get around it is that if I just duplicate the configurable (and then change the status to enabled) and then everything is working as it should.
It is a pain doing it that way (until I can figure out the issue) as I have to delete my original configurable and then change the SKU and url key to match the original.

I’ve done exports to compare between the original and duplicate to see if there is any data difference but nothing.

Has anyone used magmi for a Magento 2 store? I searched the the subreddit and the last post I saw regarding magmi was over 3 years ago. Any info would be appreciated!