Check Keyword Rankings

1. Visit SEOCentro.com Rank Checker.
2. Enter the keyword, location, domain, and competitor domain (optional). Press Submit.
   
3. The next page will view the results, related keywords, and ranking info for search engines.
   

Learn more from our other SEO articles.

The vast majority of people use Google, followed by Yahoo and Bing. There are, however, thousands of other search engines out there and you will want to add any other search engines that are not on the list as you run across a significant amount of visits from them. The search terms will be collected from the search engines on this list and can be viewed in the search engine keywords statistics report. This article will show you how to add a search engine to your list so that you can collect that information for your PrestaShop 1.5 store.  

Adding a Search Engine for SEO in PrestaShop 1.5

1. Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 admin dashboard.
2. Using the top menu bar, hover over the Stats tab and click on the Search Engines option.
3. This will lead you to the Search Engines list screen. In order to add a new search engine, click on the green Add New button in the upper right corner.
4. Now you are on the Search Engine creation screen. There are two fields here.
   
   

   Server:	the name of the search engine
   $_GET variable:	the variable used to identify the search terms

   If you are unsure what the $_GET variable is or how to find it, you can learn how to find that here:

   Finding the search engine GET variable for PrestaShop 1.5
   

5. After you have entered all your search engine’s information, click the green Save button in the upper right corner.

Removing a search engine in PrestaShop 1.5

1. Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 admin dashboard.
2. Using the top menu bar, hover over the Stats tab and click on the Search Engines option.
3. From the Search Engines list screen, there are two ways to remove an item from the list. The first way is to click on the checkbox to the left side of the search engine you want to delete, you can select more than one search engine by doing this if you wish. Once you have selected your items, click the Delete Selected button underneath the list.

   The second way is to click the Delete icon that looks like a trashcan on the right side of the respective row for the search engine you want to delete.

   Regardless of which method you used, you will be met with a confirmation pop-up window. Select the OK button to confirm the deletion.
   
4. Once you have confirmed, the list will now refresh and your deleted tax will no longer display.

To add SEO to your products in PrestaShop 1.5:

1. Log into your PrestaShop 1.5
2. Using the top menu bar, hover over the Catalog tab and click on the Product selection.
   
3. You are now on the Catalog: Products list page. There is a tab menu on the left hand side, click on the SEO tab. From here you will add a title for your page and keywords for the search engines to pick up and use for indexing. Once finished, click on the green Save button in the upper right hand corner.
   
4. You have successfully added SEO to your product. You should now be back at the master product list.
   

In the Global Configuration settings of Joomla 3.0 is a set of SEO Settings that you can adjust. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and configuring these parameters will allow you to change various settings about your site that some search engines may look at when crawling your site.

In this tutorial, we’ll look specifically at the Search Engine Friendly URLs setting.

To adjust your Joomla 3.0 SEF URL setting:

1. Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard
2. In the left menu under the SYSTEM heading, click Global Configuration
3. There are several tabs at the top: Site, System, Server, Permissions, Text Filters. Ensure you are on the Site tab by clicking on it.
4. On the right side of the page under the SEO Settings heading, find the Search Engine Friendly URLs setting. Select either Yes / No to adjust the value.
5. In the top left menu, click Save to save these changes. In our testing, we wrote an article named This is my first test article and assigned it to the Uncategorized category. Below shows what the URL to this article looks like when we have the Search Engine Friendly URLs setting toggled to Yes / No:
   

   Search Engine Friendly URLs – YES
   https://domain.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/1-this-is-my-first-test-article
   Search Engine Friendly URLs – NO
   https://domain.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1:this-is-my-first-test-article&catid=2&Itemid=101

Add a Website

1. Log into Seo Panel.
2. Click Admin Panel in the upper-right corner.
3. On the left, click New Website.
4. Type a Name for your website, then the URL.
5. Click Crawl Meta Data to auto-fill Title, Description, and Keywords. You can manually insert this data, too.
6. Click Proceed to be redirected to the Website Manager. There you can edit/remove website info and Add to [Google] Webmaster Tools.

Learn more about improving SEO with more Seo Panel content coming soon.

Learn how to change your SEO Panel theme.

To enable the Friendly URL option in PrestaShop 1.5:

1. Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 dashboard.
2. Using the top menu bar, hover over the Preferences tab and select the SEO & URLs option.
   
3. This takes you over to the Preferences : SEO & URLs screen. Locate the Friendly URL setting and click the Yes radio button to enable it.
   
4. Once set, click on the Save button on the top of the screen.

You have now successfully enabled the Friendly URL setting in PrestaShop 1.5

One of the most important Meta tags to add to your site is the description Meta tag. The Description meta tag is what Google uses in their search engine. The paragraph part of the search results is the Meta Description. Below is an example of the meta description code.

<meta name="description" content="This is the description of my website" />

Meta tags must go in the <head> section of your website. Below is an explanation of how to add the meta description to your webpage.

Adding a Meta tag to your website.

For those designing their own site with code you will be able to follow the steps below. For those who are using a program like Joomla, WordPress, or the premium Web Builder, there is a different way to add the description Meta tag. Let go through the steps to add a meta description to your website.

1. Edit the file that contains the head section of your webpage.
2. 

   Find the <title> HTML tag in the the head section.
   

3. 

   Paste the following code after the <title>tag.

   <meta name="description" content="This is the description of my website" />

   You will need to change the “This is the description of my website” with your webpages description.

   Save the changes.
   

   Now when your site is found in search engines the description you put will show below the search results.

Now you will want to add your keywords Meta tag. Please check the next article on Adding a Meta Keywords Tag.

In this tutorial:

Activate File Editor Using File Editor

As we continue our series on the All in One SEO Pack, we will now show you how to use the File Editor feature. This allows you to directly edit the robots.txt and .htaccess file for your WordPress site. First, we will walk you through enabling the File Editor feature, then show you how to view and edit your robots.txt and .htaccess files.

Activate File Editor Feature

Before we can use the File Editor feature we will show you the steps required to activate it.

1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
2. 

   Click All in One SEO then Feature Manager in the navigation menu.
3. 

   Scroll down to the File Editor feature and click the Activate button.

Using the File Editor

Now that you have activated the File Editor feature we will show you how to view and edit your robots.txt and .htaccess files.

1. 

   In the All in One SEO menu, click the File Editor link.
2. 

   Click the robots.txt tab to view and/or edit the file.

   For more information on how to use the robots.txt file see our full guide on how to Stop Search Engines from Crawling your Website.
3. 

   Click the Update robots.txt button to save your changes.
4. 

   Click the .htaccess tab to view/edit the file.

   For more information on using .htaccess rules see our guide on how to block unwanted users from your site using .htaccess
5. 

   Click the Update .htaccess button to save your changes.

Congratulations, now you know how to use the All in One SEO Pack File Editor feature in WordPress to view and edit your .htaccess and robots.txt files!

How to Control search engine crawlers with a robots.txt file

Website owners can instruct search engines on how they should crawl a website, by using a robots.txt file.

When a search engine crawls a website, it requests the robots.txt file first and then follows the rules within.

Edit or create robots.txt file

The robots.txt file needs to be at the root of your site. If your domain was example.com it should be found:

On your website:

https://example.com/robots.txt

On your server:

/home/userna5/public_html/robots.txt

You can also create a new file and call it robots.txt as just a plain-text file if you don’t already have one.

Search engine User-agents

The most common rule you’d use in a robots.txt file is based on the User-agent of the search engine crawler.

Search engine crawlers use a User-agent to identify themselves when crawling, here are some common examples:

Top 3 US search engine User-agents:

Googlebot 

Yahoo! 

Slurp bingbot

Common search engine User-agents blocked:

AhrefsBot 

Baiduspider 

Ezooms 

MJ12bot 

YandexBot

Search engine crawler access via robots.txt file

There are quite a few options when it comes to controlling how your site is crawled with the robots.txt file.

The User-agent: rule specifies which User-agent the rule applies to, and * is a wildcard matching any User-agent.

Disallow: sets the files or folders that are not allowed to be crawled.

Set a crawl delay for all search engines:

If you had 1,000 pages on your website, a search engine could potentially index your entire site in a few minutes.

However, this could cause high system resource usage with all of those pages loaded in a short time period.

A Crawl-delay: of 30 seconds would allow crawlers to index your entire 1,000 page website in just 8.3 hours

A Crawl-delay: of 500 seconds would allow crawlers to index your entire 1,000 page website in 5.8 days

You can set the Crawl-delay: for all search engines at once with:

User-agent: * 
Crawl-delay: 30

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Disallow all search engines from crawling website:

You can disallow any search engine from crawling your website, with these rules:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider 
Disallow: /

Disallow all search engines from particular folders:

If we had a few directories like /cgi-bin/, /private/, and /tmp/ we didn’t want bots to crawl we could use this:

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /cgi-bin/ 
Disallow: /private/ 
Disallow: /tmp/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /contactus.htm
Disallow: /index.htm 
Disallow: /store.htm

Disallow all search engines but one:

If we only wanted to allow Googlebot access to our /private/ directory and disallow all other bots we could use:

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /private/  
User-agent: Googlebot 
Disallow:

When the Googlebot reads our robots.txt file, it will see it is not disallowed from crawling any directories.