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Disable Compiler in Magento to Fix Blank Frontend and Admin Issue

Recently a client experienced an issue with their Magento site displaying a blank white page on the front end and for the admin page when accessed through the browser. With the site completely inaccessible it is impossible to identify any issue within the admin / config. There had been some recent extension installations and tweaks made to settings within Magento, […]

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Magento, SEO

Link Rel Author & Publisher Tags in Magento via local.xml

The are a variety of reasons for including the rel=”author” and rel=”publisher” link tags (occasionally referred to as meta tags) in the section of your sites markup and this post will detail how to add them to your Magento theme via a local.xml file update. The primary reason is to help Google associate your Magento site and any content on […]

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Magento, SEO

Magento robots.txt File

Magento is a very popular e-commerce platform, increasing in popularity for online retailers to develop their retail stores on. It has some great SEO features available, such as a sitemap.xml generator and canonical URL meta tag generation. This is great, but referencing your sitemap to tell search engine robots its location is something you need to manually do by creating […]

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Magento, SEO

Magento Canonical Meta Tag on CMS Pages

Magento is a powerful ecommerce platform that has a built in CMS for creating structural, static pages. If enabled in your sites configuration, canonical meta tags can be automatically generated which is great, however for static CMS pages they are not. This means that if you are serious about your SEO, you need to manually add these to your CMS […]

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