Instructions for MS: SEO

What the add-on does

MS: SEO extends the standard CS-Cart SEO logic. The add-on lets you define unique SEO texts for exact URLs, configure H1 and meta-data templates for different page types, manage SEO names for filters, and use city placeholders.

The add-on depends on the standard CS-Cart SEO add-on and works together with it.

Where to find the add-on

The main sections are available in the admin panel:

Website → SEO → Generics SEO — templates for categories, selected-filter pages, products, content pages, brands, and blog pages.

Website → SEO → Unique text for specific pages — individual H1, meta data, top text, and bottom text for an exact page URL.

Website → SEO → Cities — city rules and placeholders for regional storefront scenarios.

Products → Features — additional SEO fields for feature variants.

Products → Filters — additional filter settings: hidden title, SEO position, prefix, suffix, alternative name, and delimiters.

Add-on settings

The add-on settings include the number of selected filters for adding a noindex meta tag, the number of selected values from one filter for noindex, the maximum number of SEO names in the URL, and the delimiter between features.

Unique SEO texts by URL

In the “Unique text for specific pages” section, create a record for the required address. A record can contain page URL, status, noindex flag, H1, meta keywords, meta description, meta title, top text, and bottom text.

When the current storefront page matches the saved URL, the add-on applies these values to that page. The URL can be stored with or without the domain; the add-on also checks variants with and without a trailing slash.

SEO templates

The “Generics SEO” section contains tabs for selected-filter category pages, categories, products, content pages, brand pages, and blog pages.

You can use placeholders such as [entity_name], [filter_variants], [price_values], [custom_main_category], [price], [currency], [prefix_city], [city], and [postfix_city].

If applying to all languages is enabled, the add-on saves values for all available languages. Otherwise, values are saved only for the selected language.

SEO for filters and variants

Filter and feature-variant editing pages receive extra fields for building SEO phrases and URLs: hidden filter title, SEO position, prefix, suffix, alternative name, delimiters, lowercase output, and variant SEO name.

Cities and regional placeholders

The “Cities” section lets you connect a URL or domain with a city and prepare values for H1, meta title, meta description, and meta keywords. For early city detection, the project may need to include app/addons/csc_seo/core_func.php in config.local.php. This is required only when the city must be detected by domain or by the first URL segment before the regular storefront initialization.

How to check the result

Clear the CS-Cart and template cache after enabling or updating the add-on. Open a storefront category with filters and select one or more filters. Check that the URL uses variant SEO names when they are configured.

Inspect the page source or the browser Elements tab and make sure that H1, meta title, meta description, and meta keywords match the individual SEO text or the template. Check the top and bottom SEO blocks if the corresponding texts are filled for the URL.

For city rules, open the URL or domain connected to a city and check the [prefix_city], [city], and [postfix_city] replacements. If the expected values are missing, check record status, language, storefront, URL accuracy, and active theme overrides.

Useful notes

The add-on does not guarantee better search rankings by itself: it provides tools for managing SEO data correctly. If the theme is heavily customized, check that it does not override the same output templates after the add-on.