"Google Rich Snippets" CS-Cart add-on

"Google Rich Snippets" CS-Cart add-on is specially developed script for this eCommerce platform. 

This module displays attractive Rich Snippets for product details pages and regular pages in SERPs.

What are Rich Snippets?

Rich Snippets - detailed information that is displayed under every Google search result. It allows users to define if the page meets their search query or not because they see such useful information as the price, rating, etc. Since goods are displayed in an appealing way in search results, it may result in more clicks to your pages. 

It has a great SEO effect that can bring more profit to an online store.

Yellow stars in rating line grab customers attention at once, 

product price and status "In stock" or "Out of stock" make potential customers to click on the link in SERPs and visit the store.

 Product rating shows that the popularity of the item or the content. 

This module uses structured data schema.org markup which is used by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing).

Features:

• Ability to display the item price;
• Ability to display item status - “In stock”, “Out-of-stock”;
• Ability to display item rating marked with stars;
• Ability to display the number of reviews;
• Ability to display rating (stars) for regular pages;
• Ability to display breadcrumbs;
• Ability to enable/disable the above options except for the price.

Dependences:

Please, install and enable "Comments and Reviews" module if you want to show rating and the number of reviews in a Rich Snippet for your goods. Stars in SERPs depend on trustful reviews!

Compatibility:

• This extension works correctly in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera latest browser versions.
• The add-on is compatible with CS-Cart 2.1.x and 2.2.x versions, CS-Cart 3.0.x.
• The add-on is compatible with CS-Cart 4.x.x (all versions)

Notes:

1. This CS-Cart module uses the standard template of a product details page. If you use a modified skin, please, choose the Installation for modified CS-Cart option to guarantee the correct module functioning. 

2. After the installation of the addon, you can test it using Rich Snippets Testing Tool.

Please note!
Google does not guarantee that Rich Snippets will be displayed as you expect in Google search results even if structured data is marked up and can be extracted successfully according to the Rich Snippets Testing tool. 

3. CS-Cart "Google Rich Snippets" module uses the hook

     products:view_main_info

that is why the addon can be incompatible with other extensions which use the same hook.

Thus, if you have third-party modules installed which use this hook, choose the Installation of a modified CS-Cart option to guarantee the correct plugin functioning. 

4. Important for users of  Alt-team "Product designer" add-on.

If you use our CS-Cart "Product designer" module, Rich Snippets will be displayed in SERPs only for those item details pages where this module is not enabled.

For the present moment, all details pages with the enabled Product Designer tool cannot use "Google Rich Snippets" markup. 

5. After the payment is confirmed, you will be able to download the module's files from the order details page.

Remember that we can make any changes in this add-on due to your demands. Please, feel free to contact us if you have any questions about this add-on.