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H1 Tags on Volusion Product Pages
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So I'm working with a client who has no heading tags on his site and I'm wondering if there is an ideal method to implementing these on the product pages specifically, as the wording I ideally want to specify is is the product title, which i can't really code with an H1.
Has anyone run into this issue? If so, what was your solution?
Also, how vital are these heading tags on the product pages, anyways?
If the Volusion SEO expert could chime in, that would be much appreciated.
Thanks everyone!
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Hi Nathan,
Has Volusion implemented this change yet? Will They?
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Hi Jason, the
concern will be addressed with the release of Volusion's new theme engine. I expect this to be available this year, perhaps Q3. Along with this concern, the entire Volusion interface will be modernized and the new framework will enable unprecedented optimization options across categories and products. More information will be available soon.
As for your 300+ pages of duplicate content, it's very unlikely this is an
issue. Have you tried entering one of your URLs into a free service like copyscape.com ? This could help you identify what content is duplicate. Furthermore, If you'd like to provide your store, I'll take a look and get back to you ASAP with a recommendation.
Regards,
Nathan Joynt
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I just wanted to check in with this question and see if the latest versions of volusion now incorporate h1 automatically, or if i still need to go into the html on each page and add my h1's manually? Moz says i have over 300 pages of duplicate content, I think because there are no h1 tags with my new volusion store?
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Hi Paul, thank you for your patience. And thank you everyone else as well. I did get this entered into product for 2014. I do not know currently exact timing, although I will keep you posted.
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Any update on fixing this in Volusion? It seems so simple just to wrap the page title in H1 rather than having users go through thousands of product pages and manually adding H1 titles to the descriptions.
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Hi Igor, yes you will have to do it manually for now. I am working with V13 product team on this.
Regards,
Nathan
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Hi Nathan
Is it now implemented? or I need to do it manually?
Kind regards Igor
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Nathan,
Thanks for your response. The domain name is www.Oransi.com and I did use Tamara's advice, which worked for the most part. Certain variables came into play that I wasn't expecting, but overall that did fix my issue. However, if you could indeed suggest to the V13 product team about using product names as H1s, I believe your clientele would benefit indeed.
Thanks to everyone who helped here.
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Hello,
Yes, Tamara is correct with her suggestion to include the
within the Description 'HTML Editor' area. I can talk with the V13 product team as well about the ability to treat the product name as the
. I like to use actual merchant examples in my product optimization requests. Would you mind telling me the domain so I can include it in the story?
Kind regards,
Nathan Joynt
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Ah Volusion. Yes, we've run into this issue. Unfortunately, you can't add an
around the logical spot for the product name (at the top of the page below the crumb trail) So what we've done, and had very good results from in long tail / product-based search results, is to repeat the product name (sometimes with a bit of a keyword tweak) as the leading data in the product description area - where you do have control over the HTML.
Here's an example: https://www.diigo.com/item/image/3y63p/5pnd?size=o
The CSS which styles the H1's was edited to match the product name display at the top of the page, for consistency.
In order to quickly implement this run of site for all products, we used the CONCAT function in Excel to append the tags, and generally used the "productname" value to populate the heading text, then appended the closing tag + the actual description, and then just inserted back into the db.
CAVEAT: If you're pulling a product feed back out of Volusion, you'll want to strip the HTML out of that description, in order to not get wonky behavior in the CSE's (comparison shopping engines).
Hope that helps - if not, and there's anything else I can add - please let me know.
Cheers!
BMT
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