ecwid_team

Hi there!

This is Daria from the Ecwid team. Thanks a lot for your feedback, I’m really sorry you have such impression about our product. Let’s try to sort that out.

Ecwid plugin for WordPress has all SEO features as built-in functionalities, which allow Ecwid product and category pages to be natively indexed by search engines. The plugin inculdes the SEO-friendly URLs for Ecwid pages, generates the meta tags and produce microdata markups (SEO-friendly format recommended by Google) for product and category pages, so all of the Ecwid products in our plugin are marked up according to Google requirements right in the source code of the page. If you visit any product page of Ecwid store and inspect the code, you will see that the all information is presented there, for instance: image, price, stock, availability, etc. As an example you can check out the following Ecwid store on WordPress site to be sure the data for each product is out there: https://www.thecookiedoughcafe.com/store/

Ecwid’s content is delivered to the pages of the website dynamically by means of JavaScript, so that users can browse the store without the page reloading. Usually, services that use JavaScript have hashbangs (#!) in their links. Here, in Ecwid, we found a solution to display all store links as clean and understandable—with our plugin SEO-friendly URLs are available to you out of the box.

The meta tags are generated according to the product and category details: the product name is added to the title tag, the product description is included to the meta description. Ecwid also allows adding custom <title> and <description> tags. This can be done right in Ecwid Control panel > Catalog > Products > click “Edit Product”.

We automatically generate ALT-tags (from product titles) for images to explain images to search engines. There are so-called og-tags like og:locale, og:site_name, og:type, og:title, og:description, og:url. These tags make your store content more “attractive” for the search engine crawlers as well.

With our plugin there is also an option to generate the Sitemap for the store which is added to a WordPress website. This can be done with the help of special plugins such as Google XML Sitemaps or Yoast SEO. All the store pages will be included to the sitemap and then it can be successfully added to the Google Search Console.

So, all essential things necessary for SEO optimization are included in our plugin for WordPress and all this works out of the box. As a result, all Ecwid stores are indexed by search engines as good as other e-commerce plugins for WordPress.

As for our multilingual feature. Ecwid storefront is professionally translated into 50 languages. When you use our plugin, your WordPress website sets the default language the store is displayed on. If you’d like your store to be translated to different languages automatically, your WordPress site itself should support multiple languages. You can create a multilingual WordPress site and add a language switcher to it using one of the popular plugins, e.g. WPML or Polylang plugins (Ecwid is compatible with any of them and other plugins)—their language switcher changes language not only for the site, but for your multilingual Ecwid store within it, too. Your Ecwid pages will have different URLs based on the language, Ecwid will add the necessary ‘hreflang’ tags to the source code of each page, thus Google will recognize all language versions. As a result your customers will shop with you in their preferred language and Google will index your store pages accordingly.

Hope this clarifies. If you have any issues with the indexation of Ecwid store on your WordPress site, please, let us now the URL of your store. We’ll carefully analyze the SEO of your website and provide you with all possible solutions. Feel free to contact us directly at support@ecwid.com. Our Customer Care team will be happy to help you with any requests you may have. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing the link!

I’ve checked your Ecwid store added to this page https://stevecampbellremedialmassage.com/store/ and I didn’t see the errors in the browser console.

As I can see, the errors you are referring to appear when you load the home page of your site https://stevecampbellremedialmassage.com/

These errors are caused by “Autoptimize” plugin for WordPress. Do you have this plugin installed on your site? If yes, please deactivate it temporarily and check if this makes the difference.

If the errors disappear once you deactivate the plugin, I’d recommend you to get in touch with the customer service of “Autoptimize”. You can do it using this link: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/

If you have any further questions or need assistance, don’t hesitate to ask!

Wendy,
Ecwid customer care team

Hello there! It’s Ecwid Care Team.

Glad to tell you that we have a special built-in feature with help of which you can add digital (downloadable) products to your store. You can upload a file that will be delivered to customers automatically via unique download links after they make a purchase. Due to the unique link you will avoid sharing of a downloadable product. Please follow the link to get more information about Digital Products in Ecwid

Please note, that following feature is available at our Venture plans and higher. To check out Ecwid plans and features, please follow the link.

Hope that will help! Feel free to contact us directly by using this form https://support.ecwid.com/hc/en-us/requests/new if you have any other questions, we’ll be glad to help!

Hello there!

This is Ecwid Care Team. We are glad to help!

Yes, with Ecwid plugin you can sell digital items such as e-books, photos, music etc. You can upload a file that will be delivered to customers automatically via unique download links after they make a purchase. Due to the unique link you will avoid sharing of a downloadable product. Please, follow the instructions on adding a Digital Product to your store to set it up!

In addition, you can protect your E-goods by setting up expiration time and adding and limited number of downloads. You can find that feature in your Ecwid Control Panel > Settings > General > Cart & Checkout Tab > E-Goods block. Please, refer to the screenshot : https://support.ecwid.com/hc/article_attachments/360000035580/dig_4.png

Please note, that following feature is available at our Venture plans and higher. To check out Ecwid plans and features, please follow the link.

Hope that will help! Feel free to contact us directly by using this form https://support.ecwid.com/hc/en-us/requests/new if you have any other questions, we’ll be glad to help!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by ecwid_team.

Hello!

We’ve reviewed the SEO features of Ecwid and we think it’s necessary to add some more information about it to this thread.

As for meta data for categories, Ecwid automatically generates the meta title tags and meta description for the categories according to the titles and descriptions that you set up, so they are based on the category title and description.

Among the other SEO improvements we made, there are so-called og-tags like og:locale, og:site_name, og:type, og:title, og:description, og:url. These tags make your store content more “attractive” for the search engine crawlers.

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Finally, to improve your store SEO, we recommend verifying your website ownership in Google Search Console. This way, Google will be more likely to suggest your site to customers.

I hope this information helps!

If you have any questions, feel free to post in this thread. We’ll be happy to help!

Hello,

Thank you very much for your feedback! We’re glad to hear that you think that Ecwid is a good platform for creating online stores and integrating them with WordPress sites.

You’re right, it’s currently possible to write the meta tags (title and description) for the products only. We understand that it’s also important for SEO to write the meta tags for the categories as well. We have plans to add such a possibility in the future.

We’ve added the link to this topic to this feature waiting list. We’ll update you here once it’s released.

Thank you!

Joe, thanks a lot for the details!

I’d like to let you know we contacted you via email to get more details on the custom solutions you are talking about.

Waiting to hear from you, thanks!