Microformats For Zen Cart, Microformats ratings for Zen Cart online stores Options

[Web Design Seo]

Microformats rating addon for Zen Cart 1.5.0.

This addon will add rich snippets feature to your Zen Cart online shop over votes for Zen Cart products in html 5 Microformats.

Add-on for Zen Cart is similar to Microformats seo votes for Joomla and Microformats rating for Oscommerce and use Zen Cart standart rating system.

In package are files and install guide. Only three files needed to be modified, so this addon for ZenCart can be installed in 5-10 minutes.

After install you will see new option in administration to format votes for products with three new options - Microdata, Microformats and RDF. Microdata view support price and availability, RDF view support picture of product.

Rich Snippets info:

Rich Snippets in Google serp are shown over web standart Microformats and are supported from 2006 year from Google. Over these formats included in your ZenCart online shop you can receive quick and cheap advantage over your competitors. Your products will be shown in google results with stars, price, availability and Google will shown rates for your products. How this look:



In this way on current page in Google serp, your products will be not only like titles and links, all of your products will be shown in google serp with link, pictures, stars and text for number of ratings.

Examples:
Example Product in Oscommerce online shop
Example look of Product in google serp

Or open this link - multiple products are shown with ratings (example is from oscommerce shop):

Код

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:maternityband.co.uk&start=10

Screenshots from microformats rating for Zen Cart:

Microformats rating on product page:


Microformats rating options in Zen Cart admin:



Price for plugin: 29 USD. In package are plugin and install guide. Download and online purchase: Microformats rating for Zen Cart.

[Ivan Stamenov]

In addition to the microformatsvotes functionality, there is an add-on for allowing anonymous users to write reviews in Zen Cart based sites.

[Web Design Seo]

Anonymous voting idea is to receive faster more reviews for products. You need more than 2 reviews for some product to show rich snippets for this product in Google.

Switch on rating from anonymous users, post many reviews for some products and if you want switch off again.

[Web Design Seo]

Microformats addon for Zen Cart is developed for latest version v.1.5.0 but is tested and work perfect also with v.1.3.9h.

Now plugin is added to our file directory - link to online purchase and download: Microformats for Zen Cart

[pavelKukov]

We have tested microformatvotes with Zen Cart version 1.5.1. It works fine, but installation have one small difference in step number six, file extension from ".tpl" becomes ".php".

6. Edit /includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_info_display.tpl

becomes

6. Edit /includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php

[enzo]

awaiting for update

[Ivan Stamenov]

The latest version has the -25000px offset removed when using the Microdata format.


Plugin is now uploaded in our website and available for download.

Example html 5 code on product page when using Microdata option:

Код

<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<meta itemprop="brand" content="onlinemerchant" />
<meta itemprop="name" content="Pro PHP Security - 1590595084" />
<meta itemprop="url" content="http://onlinemerchant/index.php?Products&pro_php_security" />
<meta itemprop="productID" content="upc:1" /><meta itemprop="image" content="http://onlinemerchant/public/products/product_info/pro_php_security.jpg" /><meta itemprop="description" content=".... my product description" />
<span itemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
<meta itemprop="price" content="44.99" />
<meta itemprop="priceCurrency" content="USD" />
<link itemprop="availability" href="http://schema.org/InStock" />
<span itemprop="seller">
<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<meta itemprop="name" content="onlinemerchant" />
<meta itemprop="url" content="http://onlinemerchant/index.php" />
</span>
</span>
</span>
<span itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
<meta itemprop="itemReviewed" content="Pro PHP Security - 1590595084" />
<meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="0" />
<meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5" />
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content="1" />
<meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="0" />
</span>
</span>

[strychnine]

Is all of this completed with-in the Plug in? It will set the information within each page?

Are there screen shots of the admin panel?

This post has been edited by strychnine: Jan 14 2013, 06:58 PM

[Web Design Seo]

Yes, microforamts votes addon will set information on every product page. Screenshots are added in first post and on product page.

[strychnine]

Yes, microforamts votes addon will set information on every product page. Screenshots are added in first post and on product page.

Awesome!

I figured it out, thanks!

This post has been edited by strychnine: Jan 17 2013, 02:16 PM

[strychnine]

I am find this "/>" on my menu and cannot find the portion of code that needs to be removed. I double checked the entry on the product information php and do not see any stray "/>". It only shows up on the product information listing.

I removed the entire portion of code that goes into this php and it removed the /> from the page. Any ideas where I should look?

Home > Apple > iPhone > iPhone - 3G, 3GS > Dooney & Bourke Brown Wristlet Pouch
iPhone - 3G, 3GS" />

http://www.allthebestcases.com

[Ivan Stamenov]

Hi, strychnine!

Any ideas where I should look?

My bad...

/includes/modules/microformatsvotes.php, line 169:

Change

Код

<meta itemprop="category" content="'.implode(' &gt; ', $mfv_category).'">'.htmlspecialchars($mfv_product->fields['categories_name']).'" />

into

Код

<meta itemprop="category" content="'.implode(' &gt; ', $mfv_category).'" />

[Web Design Seo]

Zen Cart Addon is updated again today to work with latest google's microformats changes. Latest version is v.1.5.2, released on 11 February 2013.

Only file microformatsvotes.php is changed. If you have addon installed, update only this file.

[strychnine]

Zen Cart Addon is updated again today to work with latest google's microformats changes. Latest version is v.1.5.2, released on 11 February 2013.

For whatever I cannot find my username for the website. I purchased the plug in. (IE look above) Can someone help me with this?

[strychnine]

Is this correct on an item that has zero?

hreview-aggregate

rating:
best: 5
worst: 1
average:

Warning: Rating could not be normalized.
Warning: Rating is empty.
Warning: Either "count" or "votes" field needs to be present.

Also I noticed there is numbers within the stars on the item page.

http://allthebestcases.com/navy-blue-silic...ml#.URo8l6Xpfwk

User Rating:
1 5
(0 votes)

I updated all the microformatvotes.php within the file structure.

and this is with a vote.

http://allthebestcases.com/systm-asphalt-o...ml#.URo9jKXpfwk



This post has been edited by strychnine: Feb 12 2013, 01:03 PM

[Web Design Seo]

Yes, with zero votes is normal. With one vote is ok:

Код

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fallthebestcases.com%2Fsystm-asphalt-orange-chisel-case-iphone-2980.html&html=

[strychnine]

Yes, with zero votes is normal. With one vote is ok:

CODE

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fallthebestcases.com%2Fsystm-asphalt-orange-chisel-case-iphone-2980.html&html=

Alright. Why are the numbers visible in between the stars on the image? A 1 and a 5.

[Web Design Seo]

All of these elements must be visible on page. If is hidden content, stars will dissapeared. Is not possible to work perfect with every zen cart online shop. If you want different look, edit addon code.

[strychnine]

All of these elements must be visible on page. If is hidden content, stars will dissapeared. Is not possible to work perfect with every zen cart online shop. If you want different look, edit addon code.

Its all good. I just wanted to make sure it was normal for the functionality.

[Casper]

In the original file includes/modules/microformatsvotes.php the brand is dislaying the store name only. <meta itemprop="brand" content="'.htmlspecialchars(STORE_NAME).'" /> (Around line 168)
I changed it to the following to enable the display of the manufacturersname: <meta itemprop="brand" content="'.htmlspecialchars($mfv_product->fields['manufacturers_name']).'" />

Around line 40, I've added the following to call the manufacturer from the database:

Код

$mfv_product = $db->Execute("
        SELECT
            pd.products_name,
            p.products_model,
            pd.products_description,
            p.products_price,
            p.products_image,
            p.products_tax_class_id,
            p.products_status AS availability,
            p2c.categories_id,
            cd.categories_name,
            mf.manufacturers_name
        FROM
            " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p
        LEFT JOIN
            " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd
        ON
            p.products_id = pd.products_id
            AND pd.language_id = '".(int)$_SESSION['languages_id']."'
        LEFT JOIN
            " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_TO_CATEGORIES . " p2c
        ON
            p2c.products_id=p.products_id
        LEFT JOIN
            " . TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION . " cd
        ON
            p2c.categories_id = cd.categories_id
            AND cd.language_id = '".(int)$_SESSION['languages_id']."'
        LEFT JOIN
            " . TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " mf
        ON
            mf.manufacturers_name=mf.manufacturers_name
            AND cd.language_id = '".(int)$_SESSION['languages_id']."'
        WHERE
            p.products_id = " . (int)$_GET['products_id']
); //AND p.products_status = 1

It now calls the first manufacturer from the database and not change manufacturer on other products.
Any idea how make the brand/manufacturer part work?