I changed up the homepage a little. I think it’s a good idea.
Now instead of displaying products from all genres, it will just display the current best sellers from the most popular genres.
It will display them in order. The first being the best seller. I couldn’t list 10+ products for each genre, but it was tempting.
You’ll see that the lesbian masterpiece LADY-098 with Rina Hatsume is listed several times! It’s just that good!
Prefer to just see what’s new from all genres? You can just view the New Releases page. It’s basically the same content as our old homepage was.
Turns out I found that google was incorrectly indexing our /shop/ page.
This is very very bad and it was a complete duplicate of our home page.
I had a self referencing “canonical” link to the homepage on the /shop/ page, but it was still being indexed.
I guess they say those are “hints” and not directions.
So that may have caused some major decreases in search engine traffic and sales.
Only because of duplicate content issues.
If it did cause issues, I hope we’ll see a full recovery.
So now I fixed that and re-directed the /shop/ page to the homepage.
What is a /shop/ page? It’s a section of an Ecommerce site that displays ALL Products from ALL Product Categories.
In our page it was 26,000 products across 1000+ pages. Nobody could possibly browse all that!
Technically, if you’ve got DVDs in many different categories, the /shop/ page is all duplicate content.
That is why you’ve probably never seen it on our site. Our homepage used to be page 1 of that.
I’ll give you a general idea of how we add DVDs to the site.
If it’s a “vanilla” or general hardcore DVD, it will go into our “All Sex” category.
This is only if it WON’T fit into a category on our main menu.
I couldn’t think of a very good general area name and i’ve seen that used a lot. I didn’t like the idea of calling it “Hardcore” or just General.
Normally i’d make that category the home page, but somehow our software doesn’t allow that! Very strange.
Another tip is that if a DVD has many different themes, they’ll be listed as a “TAG” on the product page.
You can also click those tags to see DVDs with that theme.