Change the SEO properties for categories and catalog entries

In the Catalogs tool, tool, we can change the URL keyword, page title, meta description, and image alt text for catalog entry and category pages.

Task info

We can also use the Commerce Composer tool to change the SEO properties for categories and catalog entries.

Procedure

1. Open the Catalogs tool.

2. Select the store, then find and open the category or catalog entry to modify its SEO properties for.

3. Click the Search Engine Optimization tab.

4. To change the URL keyword, type a new keyword.

   If we are using viewing a category that does not belong to the default catalog for the current store, then the sample SEO URL is not displayed.

5. To change the page title, meta-description or image alt text, click Override default for the property we want to change.

6. Enter the preferred content. For instance, the page title can be rewritten to be: "Welcome to the Aurora furniture department" for the furniture category page. If wanted, we can include any SEO substitution parameters.

7. Repeat for each property we want to change.

8. Click Save or Save and Close.

What to do next

Confirm our changes:

1. When we are ready to test our changes, select File > Store Preview.

2. Click Launch Store Preview.

3. Browse to the page for the product you just changed.

4. Confirm our changes:

   SEO Property	How to confirm changes
   Desktop URL keyword	Check the page URL
   Page title	Check the page title
   Meta description	Check the HTML code for the page
   Image alt text	Hover the mouse pointer over the product image