Four Ways to Optimize Your
E-Commerce Website
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So how can you improve results for your e-commerce site? Thompson offers recommendations like these for creating content that's valuable to customers—and search-engine optimized to boot:
Create content for category pages that tend to be heavy on images and links. "[W]rite descriptions or introductory copy for each category, to be displayed above or below the product listings," he recommends. "Zappos.com, for example, places a lengthy description (more like an article) at the bottom of category pages."