Best Sellers Lists

[brebs]

Does anyone know if it is possible to have different products in the best sellers and new products lists for different sections.

[Bruce]

Hi Paul,

Welcome to the community. The lists you mention cannot be displayed differently per section. You could however use different overall layouts for your sections and hard code the lists in.

Kind regards,

[brebs]

Hi Bruce
I am concerned that having the same content on all pages on the site will have a detrimental effect on the search engine optimisation of the site in general, will search engines such as google not see this as duplication of content or at least is it not going to dilute the relevant content of the sites pages?

[RuralWeb]

Looking at your site you have very little content so the best sellers may actually help your site - certainly every site I have built using them has seen better SERPs

[jont]

The lists you mention cannot be displayed differently per section. You could however use different overall layouts for your sections and hard code the lists in.

Yes they can. I have done this on several sites with judicial use of the Block If condition, keeping the one outer layout.

Most sites have some form of navigation (which essentially the best sellers list is) which is replicated throughout every page... it is therefore more important to get the page content full and correct as this will have more impact on search listings than navigation.

[NormanRouxel]

You could tinker thus (outline only):

Create a best sellers list with say 20 items.

Add some PHP into the Sidebar Best Sellers List Layout that generates 4 unique numbers between 1 and 20 and then only displays these numbered items.

So now every page shows 4 items from the most popular 20.