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Ecommerce Website Hosting – Who To Choose & Why

Your ecommerce SEO efforts will probably hinge on hosting speed. Not to mention your actual conversions and sales. So in this guide I will go over the best ecommerce hosting solutions out there. Want to skip to the best providers?…

April 27, 2018
Matt Jackson

The Best Opencart Extensions for SEO

Opencart out of the box is pretty bad for SEO. Urls aren't optimised, canonical links are wrong, and filters can create big problems! And while you could customise each feature by hand, buying an extension will save you time and…

March 14, 2018
Matt Jackson

Journal 2 Review: The Best Opencart Theme

There are thousands of different themes to choose for your Opencart store. Many have different layouts, allow customisations, and have cool features. However there aren't many that tick every box. That's why Journal 2 is the best Opencart theme available…

January 5, 2018
Matt Jackson

Edit the homepage breadcrumb in opencart

Edit The Opencart Homepage Breadcrumb

Learn how to fix the default Opencart homepage breadcrumb, so that it's more SEO friendly. You can also edit the homepage text on the breadcrumb link.

April 16, 2017
Matt Jackson

How to add canonicals in Opencart

Opencart Canonicals & Duplicate Content

Opencart has a lot of duplicate content, and adding canonical urls can be a great option to improve your SEO. However Opencart doesn't make this easy by default, so we will have to make some changes, or use the FREE VQMOD to add them in and avoid the dreaded Google Panda penalty!

April 9, 2017
Matt Jackson

Here you will learn about the basic SEO settings to enable in Opencart

How to enable basic SEO settings in Opencart for Free

Learn how to enable the most important SEO settings in the Opencart CMS, to let you fully optimise the CMS for Google and other search engines. Watch the full video tutorial now.

April 9, 2017
Matt Jackson

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