SEO Structured Data Generator for OpenCart

Developer: Priyabrata Ghorai
Product Code: OpenCart 2x/3x
Availability: In Stock
Free premium support for 6 months
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Improve Your OpenCart Store's SEO with Structured Data

The SEO Structured Data Generator for OpenCart enhances your site's visibility in search engines and social media platforms by implementing structured data in JSON-LD format. It adds rich metadata to product pages, category pages, and your homepage, ensuring your store stands out in search engine results and improves user engagement. This extension follows up-to-date Google standards for schema and offers various SEO benefits, including enhanced rankings, higher CTR, and increased traffic.

Problem Statement

In the highly competitive e-commerce landscape, OpenCart store owners face challenges in improving their site's visibility and ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs). Search engines like Google use structured data (schema) to better understand and display content, but many store owners fail to implement it effectively. Without structured data, product information, reviews, availability, and other key details may not be displayed optimally, resulting in lower click-through rates (CTR), reduced organic traffic, and ultimately fewer conversions.

Furthermore, many OpenCart stores miss out on the advantages of displaying rich snippets, local business information, and social media metadata, which can enhance visibility on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google. The lack of structured data can also lead to delayed indexing, causing store content to appear outdated in search results. This leaves OpenCart store owners at a disadvantage compared to competitors who have already optimized their websites for search engines and social platforms.

To solve this problem, store owners need an easy, automated solution to integrate structured data across product pages, category pages, and their homepage, adhering to the latest SEO standards and improving visibility, user engagement, and conversion rates.

Purpose of the Extension:

The main goal of the SEO Structured Data Generator is to enhance your OpenCart store's SEO performance by making it more visible in search engine results and social media platforms. By adding essential structured data to your website, the extension ensures that search engines can easily understand and display your content more attractively, leading to better rankings, higher click-through rates, and more qualified traffic.

Features:

Product Structured Data: Includes price, availability, reviews, and more, for enhanced product presentation.
Organization Structured Data: Adds website details, sitelinks, search box, and contact information, improving your store's credibility.
Local Business Information: Integrates local business structured data to enhance visibility in local searches.
OpenGraph Meta Tags: Optimizes content for social media platforms like Facebook.
X (Twitter) Cards Meta Tags: Ensures proper display of content on Twitter.
Breadcrumbs List Structured Data: Improves navigation and SEO for better user experience.
Shipping & Return Policy Properties: Configurable country-specific shipping and return details to improve trustworthiness.
High-Quality Image Meta Properties: Includes copyright and license details for your product images.
VAT ID and Payment Methods: Adds organizational details like VAT, email, and accepted payment methods for trust-building.
JSON-LD Format: Google-approved, up-to-date structured data format.

How to Use:

Install the extension through the OpenCart admin panel.
Configure the settings based on your store's needs, including product details, shipping info, return policies, and social media links.
The extension will automatically generate structured data in JSON-LD format and add it to your product pages, category pages, and homepage.
Customize specific properties like shipping and return policies by selecting the relevant country configurations.
Save and refresh your website to start benefiting from the SEO enhancements.

Benefits:

Increase Search Visibility: Boost your website's presence in search engine results, leading to higher rankings and increased exposure.
Higher CTR: Rich snippets and structured data lead to more engaging search results, which attract more clicks.
Improved Traffic: The extension drives more organic and targeted traffic by optimizing your site for better search engine indexing.
Faster Indexing: With improved structured data, search engines index your content quicker, keeping your products and offers up-to-date.
Enhanced User Experience: Breadcrumbs, shipping info, and return policies improve site navigation and customer trust.

Use Cases:

E-commerce Stores: Perfect for OpenCart store owners who want to improve their product visibility and rankings on search engines.
Local Businesses: Helps local businesses optimize their OpenCart site with accurate business details, local shipping, and contact information.
Content-Rich Websites: Sites with large amounts of product listings, categories, or services can use this extension to implement rich snippets across their entire site.

Expected Results:

After installing the SEO Structured Data Generator, you can expect:

Enhanced visibility in search engine results, including Google and Bing.
Improved rankings for your products and categories, helping to outrank competitors.
More clicks from targeted traffic, leading to increased conversion rates.
Better customer engagement on social platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Faster website indexing and quicker appearance of your content in search results.

OPENCART
Compatibility	3.0.4.0, 3.0.3.9, 3.0.3.8, 3.0.3.7, 3.0.3.6, 3.0.3.5, 3.0.3.3, 3.0.3.2, 3.0.3.1, 3.0.3.0, 3.0.2.0, 3.0.1.2, 3.0.1.1, 3.0.1.0, 3.0.0.0, 2.3.0.2, 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0, 2.2.0.0, 2.1.0.2, 2.1.0.1, 2.0.3.1, 2.0.2.0, 2.0.1.1, 2.0.1.0, 2.0.0.0
Requirement	OCMOD for 2.x.x.x and higher version
Core Files Overwrite	No Core files overwritten
Multi-store	Yes, Supports Multi-store
Multi-lingual	Yes, Support Multi-language website
TECHNOLOGIES
Framework	OpenCart
Languages	PHP, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JQUERY, JAVASCRIPT
Existing Libraries Used	Jquery, Bootstrap, fontawesome.io
Additional Libraries Added / Used	bootstraptoggle (cloud)

Admin Panel Demo

https://opencart-demo.huntbee.com/demo/admin/index.php?route=extension/hbseo/hb_snippets&store_id=0

Credentials are prefilled

Our demo site is restricted by our Robots.txt file as we do not want Google to crawl and index our demo site. You can test the results by copying the source code. If you need any help understand the test results, feel free to contact us.

Video Demonstration

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SEO Structured Data

About the extension

Installation

Structured Data

Setup

FAQs

Troubleshooting

Testing

Testing Structured Data

VERSION : 3.10.1 DATE RELEASED: 01 Jan 2025

Compatibility:
- This update is exclusively for OpenCart 3 versions.
- Fully tested with OpenCart 3.0.4.0 and PHP 8.3+.
Dashboard Enhancements:
- Updated the dashboard interface to accommodate the newly added features.
Bug Fixes:
- Resolved a minor issue related to the priceValidUntil date property.
Google Merchant Listing Improvements:
- Added new properties for enhanced compatibility with Google Merchant Listings.
New Features:
1. Shipping Properties:
  - Included shippingDetails, shippingDestination, deliveryTime, and transitTime properties, configurable by country.
2. Return Policy Properties:
  - Added hasMerchantReturnPolicy, returnMethod, returnDays, and returnFees properties, configurable by country.
Structured Data Enhancements:
- itemCondition property added, defaulting to NewCondition.
- Sale price and actual price fields updated for better accuracy.
- Improved review structured data to include the headline property.
- Added image meta properties for high-quality original images, including license and copyright metadata.
Business Details:
- Added VAT ID property for enhanced business identity.
- Included ContactPoint email address for structured data.
- Integrated acceptedPaymentMethod property to specify payment methods.
- Made address fields setup mandatory for their use in home page Organization structured data.
Versioning Update:
- The extension's version number updated to comply with our 2025 versioning standards.

VERSION : 9.3.16	DATE RELEASED: 21 May 2024
Issue with image not being shown while sharing link on WhatsApp is addressed by disabling additional images in opengraph tags. Ensure the image size is set more than 1000px in the width. Updated opengraph debug link.

VERSION : 9.3.15	DATE RELEASED: 26 Sep 2023
Validation added for Inactive parent category for breadcrumbs structured data building (only for opencart 2.3.0.2 and all 3.x.x.x versions)

VERSION : 9.3.14	DATE RELEASED: 05 Sep 2023
Minor Validation fix

VERSION : 9.3.13	DATE RELEASED: 07 Aug 2023
Code Optimization Added a new feature: Breadcrumb structured data type

VERSION : 9.3.12	DATE RELEASED: 06 Nov 2021
Minor bug fixed. (price_date)

VERSION : 9.3.11	DATE RELEASED: 30 Oct 2021
Fixed a minor bug with the last update 9.3.10. Related to Array to string conversion Error.

VERSION : 9.3.10	DATE RELEASED: 19 Oct 2021
Updated extension as per latest Google Standard. w.r.t offer type

VERSION : 9.3.9	DATE RELEASED: 02 Oct 2021
Updated extension as per latest Google Standard. w.r.t brand type

VERSION : 9.3.7	DATE RELEASED: 26 Feb 2020
Added encoding of special characters in reviews text

VERSION : 9.3.6	DATE RELEASED: 05 Feb 2020
Minor bug fixed related to opengraph category URL

VERSION : 9.3.5	DATE RELEASED: 29 Apr 2019
Added default value for brand if there is no manufacturer or brand assigned to product

VERSION : 9.3.4	DATE RELEASED: 25 Mar 2019
Fixed : Undefined variable actual_price on product pages.

VERSION : 9.3.0

DATE RELEASED: 07 Jan 2019

Added property: sku
Added property: mpn
Added property: productID
Added property: priceValidUntil
Added property: review
Added property: url

The above mentioned features are added only for opencart 2.0.0.0 and all higher versions.

VERSION : 9.2.0.2	DATE RELEASED: 07 Jan 2019
Fixed Minor twig conversion issue for opencart version 3xxx No changes for other versions To update to this version, uninstall the extension, upload the latest one and install the extension

VERSION : 9.2

DATE RELEASED: 29 Nov 2018

Extension redesigned and code optimized for maximum compatibility
Updated extension as per the latest standards
Additional images in product JSON-LD
JSON-LD Implementation optimized
Feature Added: Option to display Product price with / without tax
Improvised JSON-LD in product availability
Feature Added: Product decription / meta-description selection
Feature Added: Category product list items
Logo image selection improvised
Feature Added: Related Products for Product Page Open graph
Reduced Template dependency
Breadcrumbs list JSON-LD added to many more pages like login, register, contact, sitemap, special, etc
Store Selection drop down added to admin

VERSION : 9.1	DATE RELEASED: 18 Feb 2018
Facebook OpenGraph has updated its Meta tags. Updating the same in the extension.

VERSION : 9.0	DATE RELEASED: 19 Aug 2017
Compatibility for OpenCart 3.x.x.x Twitter Card Markup Added OpenGraph image dimensions added to product and category pages OpenGraph additional images markup added for product pages Code optimized

VERSION : 8.0

DATE RELEASED: 09 May 2017

New Features:

Redesigned the Extension and up-to-date with the latest google standards
Depends SEO Extension Admin Base plugin for better organization of SEO extensions https://www.huntbee.com/seo-extension-admin-base-plugin [Free Download]
Multi-Store Support
Compatible with 2.2.0.0 and 2.3.x.x versions

VERSION : 7.1

DATE RELEASED: 09 Jun 2016

Extension updated for OpenCart 2.2.0.0 compatibility.Updates are made only related to OpenCart 2.x.x.x versions. No changes made to OpenCart 1.5.x.x versions

Added Feature:

Rich Snippets for Product pages are updated to JSON-LD as recommended by Google

The following changes are made:

Updated the extension admin template file, admin controller file
Updated VQMOD XML files of this extension

Upgrading from 6.5 to 7.1 instructions

Backup both files and database (Strictly Recommended)
Overwrite the existing version 6.5 with the 7.1 version's files

VERSION : 6.5

DATE RELEASED: 19 Jan 2016

Enhanced with enable/disable feature
Local Business Schema in JSON-LD format
Product Title, Category title pattern set up feature for OpenGraph tags
Breadcrumbs schema in JSON-LD format
Breadcrumbs feature added for category pages and product pages
More user friendly
Manual Update of JSON-LD script
Documentation Added

VERSION : 6.1

DATE RELEASED: 26 Sep 2015

Local Business Microdata updated
Extension's group name changed
Compatibility tested for SEO BULK GENERATOR Extension and SEO IMAGE RENAME Extension

VERSION : 6.0

DATE RELEASED: 19 Sep 2015

This is the first release of this extension. This Extension is splitted and enhanced from the Extension HuntBee SEO PACK. Lots of new features included. Existing Features remains same for OpenGraph, Local Business Microdata.

New Features

Rich Snippets Enhanced for Product page according to the latest schema.org standards
Product Page Breadcrumbs Microdata updated to latest standards
Microdata Data Feature added to display Social Profiles (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, YouTube, linkedin, Instagram, Pinterest, Soundcloud, Tumblr)
JSON-LD Script added for Corporate Contact, Website Information, Organisation Information, Website Sitelink Search Box, Sitename in Search Results

Menno	28/10/2022
Perfect extension. Installed on Opencart 3020. My third party checkoutextension was not compatible. After supportticket a patch was made very quickly. GA 4 is reading all necessary data. Thanks again for the great extension. Keep up the good work!

Gabor Toldy	11/10/2022
Great support and great extension, error-free operation..

saowapot kung	16/04/2022
SEO - Rich Snippets, very good extension

DANIEL PETRARIU	01/12/2021
Great support and great extension.

Steve Nelson	10/10/2021
Works perfectly without any issues. Our online presence is now richer by this extension. Excellent support by Huntbee. Highly recommended.

Michael T	09/10/2021
I have been using this extension now for some time and found it to be excellent, everything worked straight away out of the box with no issues at all.

George	26/04/2021
Installed on Joomla / J-cart (Opencart 3) platform. Simple installation and setup. One adjustment had to be made. This was done quick and clear via the ticket system.

Sebastiao	09/07/2019
Great customers support! I do recommend this extension!

Julia	28/05/2019
The structured data that was being generated for my Opencart site by another developer's seo extension wasn't being recognised by Google, and that developer said they couldn't help me. So I looked around and found this extension from Huntbees. It worked perfectly straight away, and then Huntbees also customised it for my specific needs as I wanted the default itemCondition to be Used. I will definitely look at Huntbees first for any extension I need in future.

Jim Meijer	14/01/2019
Dear reader, You really have to read this! I bought this plugin and it was in conflict with another SEO packet. I could have known in advance! I reported this to Huntbee support, They solved the problem, and it was not easy! He worked until 2:00 in the middle of the night to solve it. Really cool. Then I had a few questions because Google has certainly expanded their structured data. I have not seen a single plug-in that has integrated Google's expansion. On the basis of my question, the programmer has updated the plugin exactly to Google wishes! I think that is real service !! Thanks so mutch. Jim Meijer

Sebastiao Ferreira	23/03/2017
In my humble opinion this is the most advanced and up to date structured data and product rich snippets extension. Great service and support.

looker	11/12/2015
My experiences with Hunt Bee are great and I decided to buy just here, because of very detailed support and personal approach.

asitek	01/12/2015
thanX, works as expected. needed some customization if you are not using default template, but its easy to do :) tested under v2.0.3.1

benli	30/10/2015
Good extention and good quick support. It all worked after installation, but I had a undefined index message. It was solved in a day.

Steve	23/09/2015
Anyone with an Opencart Store that is serious about selling online should definitely buy and install this extension, it's an absolute no brainer! I have ordered a few extensions from HuntBee, and the service I have received is absolutely second to none, fast, friendly and reliable every time!