Advanced SEO

The Advanced SEO plugin puts your store’s search-engine metadata in your hands. Without it, titles and descriptions are generated automatically from your product and category names. With it, you set the rules once — and override any product, category, or page where you want something more specific.

Install it from Plugins → Advanced SEO → Enable. It is free.

What it controls

• Page titles and meta descriptions for your home page, products, categories, and content/landing pages.
• Search-engine verification (Google Search Console, Bing).
• Social sharing previews (Open Graph image, X/Twitter handle).
• robots.txt and sitemap.xml behaviour.
• Hiding pages from search (noindex), per item or for the whole store.

Title templates

Open Plugins → Advanced SEO. Under Settings you’ll find a template per page type. Templates use simple variables in curly braces:

Variable	Means
{title}	the product / category / page name
{store_name}	your store name
{sep}	the separator you set (default `
{tagline}	your store description (home page)
{category}	the product’s category
{price}	the product price
{count}	number of products in a category

The default product template is {title} {sep} {store_name}, which produces Cotton Panjabi | Your Store. If you leave a token blank, the extra separator is removed automatically — you’ll never see Title | | Store.

Per-product and per-category SEO

On any product (or category) edit screen, the plugin adds an SEO panel:

• SEO title — replaces the template for that item. Recommended 60 characters or fewer.
• Meta description — the snippet search engines show. Recommended 160 characters or fewer.
• Social image — the image used when the page is shared.
• Canonical URL override — advanced; only for duplicate or filtered URLs.
• Hide this product/category from search engines — removes it from search and from your sitemap.

Content pages and landing pages use their existing SEO title / SEO description fields; the plugin applies your page template when those are left empty.

Verification and social

• Paste your Google Search Console and Bing verification codes to verify the site.
• Set a default social image and an X/Twitter handle so shared links look right.

Sitemap and robots

• Toggle Publish sitemap.xml on or off, and choose whether product images are included.
• Add extra robots.txt disallow lines (one path per line).
• Hide entire store from search engines adds Disallow: /, drops the sitemap reference, and serves an empty sitemap.

Previewing your changes

The plugin dashboard shows a live preview: pick a page type, type a sample title, and see exactly how the result looks in Google and on social media — including character counters. The preview runs the same logic the live page uses, so what you see is what search engines get.

Good to know

• Turning the plugin off restores the automatic titles and descriptions — nothing is lost, and your overrides are kept if you turn it back on.
• Only one SEO plugin should be enabled at a time.
• If you’re unsure, leave the templates at their defaults and only fill in per-item titles/descriptions for the pages that matter most.