Can this be done?

[aliscot]

Hi,

we are finding it difficult to get listings on Google, and it has been suggested that it is due to the fact that we have catalogue pages with lots of different products on each page. We have been told that if we can have a separate page for each product it will help considerably. Is this so?

How would we do this? Can it be done without spoiling the appearance of our menu bars etc?

thanks for any help.

Ali
www.hificablesandaccessories.co.uk

[I-CC]

It is agreed amongst many site operators and developers that having a single product per page aids in the indexing potential of a web site within the search engines, and will not adversely affect it by doing this for your products.

What you basically do is where you have all of your products at the moment in a single section say, create a sub section within this section, and call it the name of the first product. Then, place that product into the new section you created and hey presto it is within its own page, so just keep repeating for all of the other products and so on..

The benefit is that you now can tailor the page title, description and meta keywords and meta description to the single product which is contained within the section, thus adding more weight to the page for indexing, as opposed to a single page with 1 title, 1 set of meta tags etc to cover lots of products...

Obvioulsy you will be ending up with sections nested inside sections and so on, so you might need to look at the section layout you use for the sub-sections (which is in effect just a container for the single product) and tidy up or add added value to the calling page, ie. short description and the like, etc etc...

Not finished yet with products in it, but take a look at http://www.4suredomain99.co.uk/ and click through to the sections, down to the final level, where it says "Some text about the ..............." which is where the final 'single' product will reside and you should hopefully see the method of top-level section, sub-section and another sub-section (which is the section containing the final product)

Hope that explains the benefits of this method...

[aliscot]

thank you

Thank you for such a prompt reply!

Ali