Magento has several issues with duplicated content. Of course, you don’t actually have two versions of the same content in your database, however, in the eyes of search engines, two different URLs serving same content are counted as duplicated content and will cause you lots of problems. The most obvious problem is that your page rank is leaking on different versions of virtually the same landing page. You also might end up with having several versions of the same content indexed which is bad in so many ways.
First duplicated content …

This is my first post here and I’ll write about my first challenge regarding Magento since I came to work at Inchoo.
As title says I’ll show you how to implement simple random banner rotation functionality in Magento using static blocks.
First of all, upload images you want to use in “/skin/frontend/YOUR_INTERFACE/YOUR_THEME/images/”
In admin panel add N static blocks (”CMS->Static Blocks->Add new block”)
For identifier field use something like this:

SomeBannerIdentifierName_1
SomeBannerIdentifierName_2
SomeBannerIdentifierName_3
…
SomeBannerIdentifierName_N

For each content use this:

<a href="ADDRESS_YOU_WANT_TO_USE"><img src="{{skin url=images/media/IMAGE_YOU_WANT_TO_USE.jpg}}" alt="Some alt text"  /></a>

Please note that you are not restricted only to images, you could use text, video …

Unlike good old WordPress that “every kid in the block” knows how to create a plugin for, Magento is a whole new system. It requires extensive knowledge of OOP, ORM’s, MVC, and few other stuff. This is why not “every kid in the block” can write a module for Magento, and this is why I love it. However, unlike WordPress, Drupal and other community driven systems out there who keep in mind backward compatibility things with Magento things are a bit different.
One of the things that caught my eye and …

Some of you may encountered this problem. You install new Magento extension through downloader, try to access its configuration settings and Magento throws “Access denied” page at you. Although you’re administrator of the system.

So what happened here? Magento just doesn’t have stored privileges for this new extension.
First just try to logout and login again. If that doesn’t work, you need to reset admin privileges.
Navigate to System->Permissions->Roles and click Administrators role.

Check your Role Resources settings just in case, Resource Access dropdown should be already set to All for administrators.

Without changing …

I see my coworker and friend Željko Prša made a nice little post on Adding a new language in Magento so I figure I’ll jump with a little Drupal to Magento integration trick concerning link issues and multilingual sites. Here is a piece of code you can use in your Drupal templates to do the proper switching from Drupal site to Magento while keeping the selected language of site. Note, this tweak assumes you have the desired language setup on both Drupal and Magento side.
This part goes to some of …

As anything in Magento adding a new language is something that requires a certain procedure which we will explain right now and for future reference.

Follow these easy steps and enjoy your multilingual site:

1. Download the desired translation thru Magento connect via admin.
2. Once installed Go to: System -> Manage Stores -> Create store view. Enter the data and save.
3. Now go to: Configuration -> Current Configuration Scope (Select your language from the dropdown) and on the right side under “Locale options” choose the desired language.

Note: Be sure to clear …

If you already performed some Magento research, you will know that it is built on a fully modular model that gives great scalability and flexibility for your store. While creating a theme, you are provided with many content blocks that you can place in structural blocks. If you are not sure what they are, please read Designer’s Guide to Magento first. Magento provides few structural blocks by default and many content blocks. This article tells what needs to be in place to create new structural block.
What are structural blocks?
They are …

If you login to your Magento admin today, you are welcomed with message box that says:
CSRF Attack Prevention Read details !
Yesterday Magento team acknowledged CSRF vulnerability and provided solution in a form of tutorial to change admin path (frontName) of your Magento shop.

I find this approach strange and funny at the same time. Is hiding vulnerability new way of fixing it? Especially since some users of French Magento forums found similar problem in downloader (Magento connect manager). I can confirm this couse i tested it myself. The most …

Hi everyone. I wrote this little plugin while working on one of our projects. If you know your way around WordPress then you know what $wpdb variable stands for. Imagine the following scenario. You have WordPress installation on one database, Magento on another. You know your way around SQL. You can always make new object based on WPDB class inside your template files giving it database access parameters, or you can use this plugin and use $MAGEDB the same way you use $wpdb.
Below is a little example of using $MAGEDB …

Description:  

With themes based off the Modern Theme, product information tabs are buried under JavaScript. This is awful for SEO. Converting these to CSS allows the Search Engines to index more information on the product pages. This article will tell you how to do that and improve the Search Engine friendliness of your Magento site!

About the Author:

CoolBlueLogo is a Promotional Product Ecommerce site. Helping marketing professionals achieve success with their incentive and customer loyalty campaigns. CoolBlueLogo is Jonathan Martin, he can be reached at jonathan@coolbluelogo.com.
Search engines typically only read visible page …