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Magento Search Engine Optimization

By : Robert Kent
Book Image

Magento Search Engine Optimization

By: Robert Kent

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Magento Search Engine Optimization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Layout and content considerations


When optimizing the content on our pages, we must always make sure that the primary purpose of our content is to engage our visitors—not pander directly to search engines. The more beneficial our page is to our users, the greater the chance that search engines will want to present our page to its own users.

Well-structured category and product pages are essential for any e-commerce website. The ease in which a customer can browse the website and add a product to the cart is fundamental in making sure that our store converts visits into sales.

This is normally dependent on the layout of the website and not only affects our conversion rates, but also visitor bounce rates and time on page, which are both important ranking factors for SEO.

Category page layout

For categories, Magento provides us with the following default tools in which to display content to the user:

  • The ability to add a category description, image, and thumbnail

  • The ability to display a static block...