Exploring ecommerce information architecture
Just like any other kind of
website, search engines need to understand how your ecommerce content is
organized. With a well-organized structure your content pages, ecommerce
specific pages, and the products themselves will be clearly recognizable and
identifiable to search engines as they crawl the pages of your site.
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| Exploring ecommerce information architecture |
Remember that internal linking is crucial for helping search engines understand the structure of your website. When you walk into a store in the offline world it's organized into different sections to help visitors head in the right direction before they actually start looking for specific products on the shelves.
Websites should be built with the same concept in mind using your linking to set up that structure. At the highest level of your hierarchy you can identify the different categories of products that you sell and within those category pages you can link to the next level of subcategories or products.
When a searcher is looking for a certain type of shoes, you want them to end up on your subcategory page for that particular type of shoe. If they're typing in model numbers and specific products, you want the appropriate product pages being returned.
When we get to the actual product pages themselves there are a few things to remember. First, each and every product should have its own unique page and on each of those pages you'll need to include content around the product. That means including things like the product name, properly tagged images, unique product descriptions, product colors, sizes and other options, prices, whether or not it's in stock and a host of other attributes that are associated with ecommerce products.
Over and above the page
content, we even have the ability to identify other attributes even more
clearly to the search engines by adding special metadata to your code. Do not
forget to make sure that you're including your category, subcategory and
product pages in your XML site maps.
The more you can help search engines with identifying the details of your ecommerce product information through your site structure, internal links and metadata the more they will trust your site with providing a quality shopping experience for users and all other things equal the more likely they are to return your pages over the competition.
The more you can help search engines with identifying the details of your ecommerce product information through your site structure, internal links and metadata the more they will trust your site with providing a quality shopping experience for users and all other things equal the more likely they are to return your pages over the competition.
Steve Steinberger
561-281-8330
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