Hi

This is great, thank you for responding

Some really good examples!

Becky

Great thank you for the detailed response

I also wanted to find out what opinions were on hub pages/user guides over category page content - management don't want the content to detract from products, so are hub pages the solution?

My only concern is that all this new content, will also take time to rank so will it in fact help the category pages enough as adding content to the category page itself?

Thanks!

Hi

Does anyone have any great examples of an ecommerce site which has great content on category pages or product listing pages?

Thanks!

Thank you for the advice, I'll take a look at the articles

Brilliant, the round table sounds great - I'll sign up for this

Thanks for the advice, I've looked into this before.

We have menu links and product links as it's an ecommerce site, so I wouldn't be able to remove any of these.

I've found it hard to find a way to decrease these links further on primary pages. For example http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/aluminium-sack-truck has 130 links.

Any advice would be appreciated

Brilliant thank you!

Hi

I know previously it was recommended to stick to under 100 links on the page, but I've run a crawl and mine are over this now with 130+

How important is this now? I've read a few articles to say it's not as crucial as before.

Thanks!

Great thank you for the feedback.

Should we be actively outreaching to the relevant communities or simply sharing this and seeing what the response is from this?

I think what I want to identify is how much time I need to spend on outreach. I know there is no simple answer to this and it's ongoing of course.

Hi

Thank you for the detailed response. I have just looked at their blog and its very creative with some amazing images.

Our offering is some B2C but mostly B2B. I want to invest more into brilliant imagery to go alongside our guides but this is something we'll need to work on.

Thank you for the feedback!

I haven't started doing this yet, is this approach worthwhile for an ecommerce site?

I know that most outreach can be ignored if it's seen to be for ecommerce or sales.

Thanks!

Hey,

Does anyone have any advice on how to approach outreach for an ecommerce site? We're in the process of doing user guides, for niche products. I wondered if this was a good angle to approach relevant communities/sites.

Or is this too time consuming for little value at the end? Is it PR outreach we should look to focus on?

Thank you

Hi,

Yes I agree, does anyone have any examples of great product pages which don't use tabs?

A lot of sites do use the tabs to make it easier for customers

Hi

To add to this, I have been presented with a work around to this:

Hidden Text in Websites - SEO Chat instead of having hidden div's to use the z-index and absolute positioning css features to workaround this problem mostly because menus are used a lot in that way, so, search engines apparently still index these words.

"Another way to hide text from the user is to put text in the  Back or Front layer instead of the immediately visible layer. The third dimension of viewable screen is the Z-index. The first two dimensions are (X) and (Y), which indicate “left to right” and “up to down” respectively. The Z-index indicates “back to front” for layers of Web pages. Using the Z-index, Web designers can hide text in the previous layer.

These methods are also used in creating of menus or navigation bars in websites, so search engines index them.

Is this seen as a spammy work around?