Categories
Assets / Categories
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Assets / Categories
Last updated
Categories are the main way to organize your products in Tuplo. Once you establish them, you can assign categories to product groups, making it easier for customers to find what they want on your website with just a few clicks.
Categories provide a broad description of your products. Examples include clothing, camping supplies, and car parts. They are structured hierarchically, allowing for unlimited nesting to offer maximum flexibility. However, it’s best to keep the structure simple; complex, deep category setups should be used only when necessary.
SEO Considerations
Categories are the backbone of your website's structure and are heavily indexed by search engines such as Google and Bing. Once established, you should minimize changes unless necessary. Doing so will help reduce the time it takes for search engines to discover and re-index your content.
To add a category:
Choose More Options > New Group
Enter a title.
Press Return.
Once created, you can add categories by following these steps.
Select the desired category.
Choose More Options > New Category.
Enter a title.
Press Return.
To delete a category:
Select the category.
Click the Remove button.
Click OK.
Quick Tips!
As a safety precaution, if you want to delete a category, you must ensure it has been unassigned from any product groups.
Categories can be rearranged by clicking and dragging to a desired location.
To change the name of a category:
Select the desired category and do one of the following:
Press Return.
Click the category.
Enter the desired name.
Press Return.
Any changes you make are unsaved when working in the Assets Window until you click the Save button.
If you're unsure about your changes and wish to discard them, clicking the Revert button will return the window to the previous save state.
Quick Tips!
To protect your data, Tuplo Studio will prevent you from changing tabs or assigning assets if there are any unsaved changes, as indicated by the red icon.
Keywords are unique descriptions that further detail categories and product groups. As additional terms that can be assigned to categories, they make products associated with them more visible in searches on your website.
By default, products in Tuplo Studio are automatically indexed and searchable on your website so customers can easily find them. These indexes include the product brand, title, category, color, and size. To illustrate, consider a running shoe product with the following characteristics:
Brand: Alta Athletics
Title: Swift Runner
Category: Footwear / Athletic Shoes / Running Shoes
Colors: Red, Blue, White
Sizes: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
These shoes will be indexed with all these words, so if a customer on your website searches for "running shoes," the Alta Swift Runner will show up among the results. But what happens if the user searches for "jogging sneaker" instead? In this situation, the Alta Swift Runner will not appear in the results.
This is where keywords on categories can help. By adding the words "jogging" and "sneaker" as keywords to the Running Shoes category, the Alta Swift Runner and any other product groups assigned to this category will show in searches for "jogging sneaker."
Since categories support folder nesting, you can take it one step further when optimizing keywords. By assigning a keyword to a category containing multiple categories, that keyword is applied to all of them as an Inherited Keyword.
So, you could apply the keyword "sneaker" to the Athletic Shoes category, which would assign the keyword to every category inside.
This makes assigning keywords efficient and manageable, especially when assigning keywords to parent categories holding numerous categories.
To assign keywords:
Select a category.
Select the Keywords tab.
Click on the text input.
Type the keyword.
Press Return.
Keywords assigned directly to a category can be deleted from within them, while inherited keywords must be deleted from their designated category.
To delete a keyword:
Select a category.
Click the desired keyword.
Press Delete.
Quick Tips!
You can also navigate the text entry using the Arrow keys and remove keywords using the Delete key.
Categories feature the ability to have attributes assigned to them. This helps further define product groups with the category assigned to them.
Since you need to create the attributes before you can assign them, check the following section on attributes for steps to create and assign them to categories.
