Category page descriptions: weightlifting.

Today I had two main focuses.

1) I wanted to organize and make my store categories easier to understand. I have many items that were bulk uploaded that went into extra categories or the wrong categories that need to be fixed. By consolidating categories and clarifying them, I'll be able to submit a new google site map to the webmaster tools. Hopefully this will notify Google that I've changed my site and along with the little bit of product descriptions that I added recently, will entice Google to index my entire site.

I discovered that Big commerce allows me to maintain URL's Check out my video I made to show you how to do that!

The second thing that I did was to focus on content writing for my categories. I was able to get 14 product category descriptions written :) I have another 22 categories in my weightlifting section, plus the weightlifting larger category. Plus eight other large categories with sub categories to work on. This will definitely take me most of the week to work on and probably all of next week as well.

The items I added to my category pages:
1- A detailed description of the category. Sometimes that is difficult so I also include why that product is important, the health benefits, the uses, and types of exercises enjoyed with this product.
2- A detailed list of the products and sizes contained in the category.
3- A meta data description, Meta data tags, search tags, and page title.
Also here are two resources I found on Meta tags that was great info:
http://www.metatags.org/examples_making_meta_tags
http://www.code7.co.uk/blog/how-to-write-seo-friendly-title-tags-and-meta-descriptions
4- A thumbnail photo. That makes larger categories look nice like this: (You can tell which categories I haven't gotten to yet)

In this photo, you can see one of the sub categories with the description written out and more sub categories underneath. It looks good and it has information that makes the page more valuable for Google.

Tomorrow I continue.

PS I haven't had Google Index any more of my pages yet. I don't expect them to until I submit a new site map.