When you use Prestashop in multi-language, addresses / URLs are written as follows:
http://www.boutique-prestashop.com/iso/fichier.php

So this gives:
http://www.boutique-prestashop.com/fr/fichier.php for French.
http://www.boutique-prestashop.com/en/fichier.php for English.
And so on.

We advise you to keep it running, but if you have already listed your shop without the / en / for the French language and you do not want to lose your position on search engines, we offer a solution to change the behavior of Prestashop.
You will therefore have a system to address the following:
http://www.boutique-prestashop.com/fichier.php for French.
http://www.boutique-prestashop.com/en/fichier.php for English.
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1.3 The Pages CMS

Magento CMS has features quite simple, the advantage is that you can control every element of every page you create.

Once your pages have content worthy of being listed, give your page a unique title (SEF URL Identifier).

Go to the tab "Meta Data" and write a description for each CMS page that you want to reference.

You can leave the field "Keywords" empty, it is used by search engines, when the description field is empty. Read the rest of this article

We will begin today, the first part of our series of articles on SEO with Magento .

1. Basic optimization techniques

1.1 System General

Magento is certainly, at present, the platform e-commerce on the most advanced SEO.
But it is necessary to implement a number of tricks to optimize your Magento SEO shop. We will detail a number below. Read the rest of this article

Introduction

This guide is a set of good manners and tasks to optimize your shop Magento for search engines, and thus improve your SEO. All the settings you will perform following the instructions below should be performed regularly to your Magento store . At each change of your catalog, you will take up some steps. But if you do it once already, it will be a good improvement SEO is a long process and requires a lot of details, so be patient ... Read the rest of this article

A Sitemap file, what is it?

The Sitemap is as its name suggests, a plan of your site that contains links to all pages of your site.

For a search engine (Google, Yahoo, VeoSearch ...) without a site visit sitemap return to Paris without a plan!

Ie the robot engine will scan your site with links that are accessible but can not index more pages that will be "hidden". Returning to our example with Paris, you will visit convenient locations, but do not linger in the streets.

We focus more closely on the interests of SiteMap for Magento : if the robot indexes the first page of your site, but only indexes for example, not product pages or category pages, it will be referenced as your page home with your featured products, or your introduction. To the benefit is close to zero.

Therefore it may be interesting to take a few minutes to try to create this sitemap for your Magento store. Indeed you may well have the site e-commerce design most of the world, or with more products, if the client does not find you, he shall not visit your site.
The creation of the sitemap will allow you to optimize the ranking of your Magento store for search engines index all your products.
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