Modifying Products Page

[DBurrows]

Another day another load of changes from my SEO team.

Curently i use the businessCSS template for my site, but i now need to change something ever-so-slightly. On the pages that list the products i need to shorten the descriptions (no problem) but i need to include a more info button that links to a further page that displays just the product in question (Picture, complete descrition etc).

I was going to use the "more info" feature but actinic uses java script that the search engines cannot follow, i then found a nice patch by normam for this code, however the SEO team say that spiders have trouble following the "onclick" command so that rules that one out as well.

Anyone know how to achieve what im after?

Thanks

David

[pinbrook]

I've got 75% of the answer, but it needs tidying up.

1 allow actinic to generate extended info
2 place a tick in Display by clicking product image
3 also add this code to the product description !!<more info on <a href="extendedinfopagename.html" >keyword</a>>!!

this results in the extended info page being created. and you get your <a href> link for SEO

That is the easy bit.......

what i haven't got to work is the close button on the extended info.

if you click on the a href link to see extended info if you have target=blank the close window link causes the catalog to be loaded into the extended info box, if you don't use target = blank, the extended info takes up the whole page.

an example of this is on http://www.surf-wax.co.uk/acatalog/k...fing_DVDs.html 2nd product, wavemasters dvd

[Mike Hughes]

Reading david's post, I don't think he's using the popup page for the extended info so I think you've given him the answer he needs.

From an SEO point of view, orphaned pages are a bad idea and cause problems if a search engine ever directs a customer to one of them as he then has nowhere to go.

Mike

[NormanRouxel]

I think my patch works OK as it generates a normal hyperlink to the page (which would open in the same window as the parent page) that spiders should be able to follow.

However the trick is that the onclick event (which spiders will ignore) overrides the normal link (for real browsers) and causes the page to open in the popup window as desired.

There are some people out there using this patch so if any of them are listening could they report whether their popup pages have been indexed OK.

It might also be a good idea to add a small link back to the top of your site in the extended info template so that anyone opening one of your popups directly will have somewhere to go as mentioned above.

Norman

[pinbrook]

if there a way to force a page opened with <a href> link to be a particular size?

Norman - I can't see your patch on your website..

[NormanRouxel]

Norman - I can't see your patch on your website..

It's a one-liner so I just left it on this Forum on http://community.actinic.com/showthr...&threadid=5145

Norman

[pinbrook]

Thanks Norman - found it.

So further to this....

I am still working on getting the pop up to show since I prefer the look of a popup rather than a full page for extended info.

so......

1 is there a netquotevar for the pagename as defined in the extended information?

I'm working on the idea of using something like this in the productline template, thus to get the <a href> but suppress the ability for the shopper to click it, they have to use the catalog inbuilt pop up

<noscript><a href=netquotevar:extendedinfo_pagename.html>NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</a></noscript>

or possibly this

<noscript><a href=CUSTOMVARage_name.html>NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</a></noscript>

[pinbrook]

Back to Normans code...I've changed it abit (to get the a href link to open in a new window)

This is the resultant code

<A onclick="ShowPopUp(this.href,400,420);return false;"
href="fluidrevolutiondvd%2ehtml" target=blank>more</A>

since the href link is there really for SEs is it followable?

ie the %2e in place of .

Simspider shows a link looking like this.....http://www.surf-wax.co.ukfluidrevolutiondvd%2ehtml

ie missing / after the domain name

[NormanRouxel]

Jo,

I'm not sure why you add the target=blank (shouldn't it be target="_blank" anyway) as the HREF is never followed by customers due to the return false in the JavScript.

Also if you want to check whether the link can be followed then just replace the javascript with

return true;

and see if the link opens the extended info as if it were a normal page.

Norman

[pinbrook]

Hi Norman

My reasoning for adding the target=_blank is for people who don't have javascript (even though there are only a handful of them)

when these bods arrive on the extended info, they don't see the catalog code to close the window.

i've put a clickable link in to offer a link back to acatalog/index.html, but if someone clicks the red cross (top right) they will at least stay on the site (now, with 2 open windows) rather than leave the site inadvertantly (0 windows open).

Jo

PS will report back to say how well these apges are being indexed