Product display versus search results

[jonnys]

Hi,

I’m selling music albums on my site.

Wondering if you have any suggestions for this:

For example, I’m selling a sound effects album with 99 tracks on it. I want the tracks to come up in the product search, so therefore I need to have a list of all the tracks in the description.

The problem I have is that within the product I already have an audio player to preview all 99 tracks.

http://www.yopo.co.uk/soundeffects/

But the tracks previewing in the audio player are not picked up by the “product search”. So I put a text track listing under the audio player like this:

http://www.yopo.co.uk/military-aeroplanes-and-helicopters/

Looks a bit clunky to me, and where I have a list of albums (as in on the first link) it makes the pages very long – and takes the add to cart button a long way down.

My workaround is this:

Have a product for the list of albums – here they display with the audio player but not with the track listing underneath. (as in first link)

Then have a separate product on it’s own dedicated page which is exactly the same, except it has the track listing underneath, and links to the same download file. The product in the list of albums has this dedicated page as its “product page URL”.

This works but means having 2 products for each album (both linking to the same download file)

Any ideas for getting the track listing into the description for search purposes in a better way. I’ve been looking into how to get a drop down button to display the track listing but not sure how that would work?

Many thanks

J

[amin007]

The current product search results do not show the description of products simply because it makes the result list too long (it is a good practice to show minimal information in the search result). Remember, if the visitor is interested in a result he can click on the product name which will take him to the details page.

Anyway, if you do want to have a shortcode that shows the description section of your products as well as the other details then you can contact us to develop a custom shortcode for you and we will give you a quote for this development.

[jonnys]

Hi – sorry no you’ve misunderstood what I was getting at. What I was trying to ask about, was a way to get my track listings to get “picked up” by the search engine. I’m happy with the results format – that’s fine.

It’s just that if you look at the 2 pages I posted – I’m trying to find a way to get the track listings of my music albums into the description in the product setup – so that it shows up in the results – WITHOUT having to display the long list when the product displays. Take a look at the examples I posted – easier to understand than my description,

Thanks

Jonathan

[amin007]

When you say “Get my track listings to get picked up by the search engine” do you mean “Google”, “Yahoo” etc?

[jonnys]

HI – no what I mean is picked up by your product search engine. As in the product search utility looks in the product name and description. However because my track names are within a bit code running an audio player they obviously don’t get picked up by your search utility. So the only way to get say “steam train sound effect” to get picked up is to have those words within the description, but that means having a long list in the description – when the audio player is already displaying those names.

So – the question is how to get the names of the tracks to be picked up by your product search utility without having having a great long list of track names in the product display.

What do you think?

Thanks

Jonathan

[amin007]

Ah I see… I get you now. The track listing comes from a different plugin so eStore has no way of searching the keywords there unless the keyword is part of the product name or description.

It is possible to do a bit of hack and get what you are after. You can enter the track listing as you are doing now but you can wrap it in a CSS div and use some CSS trick so it doesn’t display in the browser. The search will still pick it up.

[jonnys]

Hi – that sounds like a great idea. Any advice on how i could do that please?!

Thanks

J

[amin007]

You can use the “display:none” attribute in your CSS div to make that div invisible. Do a bit of Google search on “how to hide content from a HTML page using CSS” and you will see some good tutorials.

[jonnys]

Great many thanks.

J

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