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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Operating
Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
Management Center for HCL Commerce
The Management Center for HCL Commerce, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, and others).
Catalogs tool
Use the Catalogs tool in Management Center to manage catalogs, categories, catalog entries, merchandising associations, product attributes, and attachments in your store. The Catalogs tool lets business users create, and manage online catalogs. Catalogs provide a way of organizing the products that you want to sell. You define catalog data in groups of categories and products. Catalog data contains descriptions and pricing information for products and services.
Improving search results on your site
HCL Commerce provides several tools that you can use to improve search results from search engines, and search results on your storefront.
Changing the SEO properties for categories and catalog entries
In the Catalogs tool, tool, you can change the URL keyword, page title, meta description, and image alt text for catalog entry and category pages.

Changing the SEO properties for categories and catalog entries

In the Catalogs tool, tool, you can change the URL keyword, page title, meta description, and image alt text for catalog entry and category pages.

About this task

You can also use the Commerce Composer tool to change the SEO properties for categories and catalog entries.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
Select your store, then find and open the category or catalog entry that you want to modify its SEO properties for.
Click the Search Engine Optimization tab.
To change the URL keyword, type a new keyword.
Note: If you are viewing a category that does not belong to the default catalog for the current store, then the sample SEO URL is not displayed.
To change the page title, meta-description or image alt text, click Override default for the property you want to change.
Enter the preferred content. For instance, the page title can be rewritten to be: "Welcome to the Aurora furniture department" for the furniture category page. If wanted, you can include any SEO substitution parameters.
Repeat for each property you want to change.
Click Save or Save and Close.

What to do next

Confirm your changes:

When you are ready to test your changes, select File > Store Preview.
Click Launch Store Preview.
Browse to the page for the product you just changed.

Confirm your changes:


SEO Property	How to confirm changes
Desktop URL keyword	Check the page URL
Page title	Check the page title
Meta description	Check the HTML code for the page
Image alt text	Hover the mouse pointer over the product image