Dynamically generate category meta descriptions in Magento

by Jonathan on 25th Nov 2009 in Magento

A friend of mine had a problem with his Magento store recently; all the product categories were using the default meta description which comes from the admin and he thought that this duplication might be affecting how Google indexes the site (he’s an SEO guru btw, so probably right).

You might say “why not just manually enter descriptions for each category” and you’d be right, that would fix the problem. But there’s a lot of categories and my friend is incredibly busy, he’s a Google consultant so funnily enough spends most of his time SEOing other people’s websites.

So in a nutshell here’s what we did.