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Warning

Friendly URLs only work with a server setup that supports URL rewriting. Make sure to check that yours does (ask your hosting provider!), as it can make your shop completely unavailable to customers if you enable friendly URLs and the server does not support it!

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Therefore, in In order to change the homepage meta tags, you simply need to open the "SEO & URLs" page, click on open the "index" page's settings, and there you can freely edit some important SEO information.

A few tips:

  • The default homepage title is the name of the store, and therefore the index' title field is empty. If you put content in the field, the homepage's full title will be "<your content> – <the name of the store>".
    The name of the store itself is set during the installation of PrestaShop, and can be changed from the "Store Contacts" preference page, using the "Shop name" option of the "Contact details" section.
  • Keep your description short: a paragraph of text is enough.
  • To add a tag, click in the "Add tag" field and validate by pressing return. You can remove tags by click the red cross.
  • You do not have to add a rewritten URL if there is not already one.

Note that if your store has already been indexed by Google or any other search engine, it might take a while for your changes to appear in the search results. Please be patient.

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  • Page. The drop-down list gives you all the pages that can benefit from a friendly URL.
  • Page title. The title that will appear in search engines when a request is made.
  • Meta description. A presentation of the page in just a few words, intended to capture a customer's interest. It will appear in search results.
  • Meta Keywords. Keywords that you must define in order to have your site referenced by search engines. You can enter several of them: type the words, press the Return key, and see how the tag gets encapsulated in a yellow block, with a tiny red cross icon to delete it.
  • Rewritten URL. This is where you set the friendly URL. Make it short and descriptive, and replace spaces (" ") by hyphens ("-").

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