Individual pages for products ?

[Joanna14]

Hi

A different question while I'm here

Is there a way where I can have a separate page per product. Ie, I have my list of products as per www.essentialoilsonline.co.uk/acatalog/Pure_Essential_Oils_A_to_J.html, however, could I then have a more detailed page specifically for say 'basil' that could have basil in the title (making it more search engine friendly) that could still have an 'add to basket' button ?

If there's no way with an 'add to basket' button. Would the options be to use the extended info button (I have already used this but I could expand the text if it was search engine friendly).

Or should I just create a new page using the 'information text link option' ?

Can someone please let me know the best choice.

Thanks in advance
Joanna.

www.essentialoilsonline.co.uk

[NormanRouxel]

Two ways (at least).

You can make a section for each product with just a brief description and image. Then that "sections" contents are just the single product. Disadvantage is that you won't show a price on the Section (unless you add one into the section description - but then you'll have to maintain 2 prices).

Also, I've done a patch that allows the popup extended info page to have the Add to Cart button and Choices, etc. See www.drillpine.biz/actinicstuff/

This can be very useful for sites who want a concise product layout with the real info inside the popup.

[Joanna14]

Hi Norman

Thanks for your reply, the second option sounds great, however, before I change everything is the ext pop up window search engine friendly ?

Thanks
Jo

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic's popups are search engine unfriendly as they are accessed via JavaScript. However I did a patch that makes them spiderable and this should work alongside my popup with add to cart patch.

Someone asked about it yesterday - see http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=11614

[Joanna14]

Thanks Norman,

I hadn't noticed that one yesterday. I'd better get to work now......

Best wishes
Jo

[NormanRouxel]

Don't move the whole site over immediately. I'd make a test section (copy some products in) and check it does all you want there.

[Joanna14]

Thanks Norman, I'll give that a go first.

[Joanna14]

Hi Norman

I've added the add to cart button in the extended info popup and it seems successful on this product:-

www.essentialoilsonline.co.uk/acatalog/Pure_Essential_Oils_A_to_J.html#a3

I've also changed the Design / Text -1 / 2175

to

%s" onclick="ShowPopUp(this.href,%s,%s);return false;

as mentioned to make the pop up box search engine friendly. However, looking at the thread, I'm unsure whether I need to add a back link or not, you mention hard coding a link (not sure exactly what this means) and someone is going into details about adding a link on the popup to the homepage (or is this just explaining the hardcoding?). But it is not easy to see which option is required, if any, to make the page OK for the spiders to crawl through.

Please could someone please clarify if I need to do anymore ?

Thanks in advance
Joanna.

[NormanRouxel]

The only worry is that someone bookmarks the popup page and returns to it another day.

It might be nice to have a logo that links back to your home page. You could add that to AddToCart_ExtendedInfo.html. I.e. just after <body....> add

<a href="http://www.essentialoilsonline.co.uk/acatalog/"><img src="myimage.gif width=100 height=30 border=0"></a>

you'll need t find a suitable image and change the cose to suit.

However the popup page has a Close Window link which either closes the window (if popped up) or opens the product page if the popup was loaded in isolation. That "close window" link is dynamically generated and you can make it more meaningful by changing the link that shows if the popup is opened in isolation.

Edit AddToCart_ExtendedInfo.html and change the line

document.write('NETQUOTEVAR:CLOSELINK');

to

document.write('NETQUOTEVAR:CLOSELINK' + ' / return to main site.');