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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating categories in Joomla!


Writing a regular blog, tutorials, or topical articles related to the products and industry around those products can generate lots of visitors to your website. Planning, as with most things in SEO is probably as important as the actual articles themselves.

Having devised the most appropriate keywords for your site, you are probably half way there on deciding the categories you should divide your articles into. Logical divisions make the customer more likely to see a category that interests them and click to investigate.

If you have lots of articles, then subcategories might be worthwhile as well. In this recipe we will create three categories. One will also have three subcategories within it.

Getting ready

Plan your article category structure carefully. Think about the keywords and the long tail keywords from the Choosing your keywords recipe. The longer the keyword, the deeper it should be put in the structure. With the absolute best keyword (for your strategy...