Keeping on top of SEO can be difficult, especially as OpenCart doesn't allow you to directly edit certain meta data. Fortunately we've got some great extensions that can help your OpenCart site appear more easily on Google.



Better SEO

SEO determines how easy your website is to find on Search Engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo. No matter what search engine your potential customers are using you want them to be able to find your site when they're looking for it. That's why it's vital for your website to be Search Engine Optimised.


There are a number of ways to improve SEO on a website, including adding relevant meta data, ensuring URLs are correct, providing a sitemap, and if you have products providing a Google Merchant Feed will show your products on Google.



SEO URL Checker

This URL checker is a powerful tool to ensure your site doesn't have incorrect URLs that could be causing problems indexing the site. This tool automatically scans your website and highlights URLs that are duplicates, empty, or have spaces in them, all of which would prevent indexing. If using OpenCart 3.x.x.x it can also determine whether queries are duplicates or empty.


Use this checker to find the URLs that need to be corrected. Once these problem URLs are identified, fixing them is easy! Duplicate URLs would need one changed so every URL is unique, empty URLs would need a URL added, and URLs with spaces will need the spaces removed.




Manufacturer SEO

Being able to add a description to your manufacturer pages not only helps sell to customers but it also helps with SEO. By default OpenCart doesn't allow you to add a description to manufacturers or even meta data. Our extension fixes that! 


Our extension allows you to add a description and even images which will help customers know more about the manufacturer directly on the manufacturer page on your website. You'll also be able to update your meta data including meta tag title, meta tag description, and meta tag keywords.


By default OpenCart doesn't allow you to edit this information for the manufacturer so add our extension to give your customers, and search engines, more information about the brands you sell!




Improved Google Sitemap

Create a sitemap fit for your site and ready to submit to Google. A sitemap is a simple document that outlines your site's structure for search engines, improving your visibility.


This free extension creates a sitemap for you that you can submit to Google, once submitted it should improve Google's crawling of your site which will help with page indexing.




Improved Google Merchant Feed

A Google Merchant feed is used to submit product data to Google. This lets Google know everything about your products so they can be shown to people searching specifically for your products.


Improved Google Merchant Feed allows you to:

  • Set active campaign,
  • Edit product active status and set product campaigns,
  • Optionally include all products that do not have active campaign even if one is set,
  • Include Google Business store code,
  • Add Custom XML values like shipping or pickup,
  • Parse product name to comply with google policy,
  • Filter the store by catalogue ,
  • Set campaign(s) and status for feeds (enabled, disabled, and not set).


Use some of our advanced tools to help your OpenCart site get seen online!