Product collections overview
A product collection refers to a set of products that share some characteristics.
The product collections serve as a means of organizing products in your store in a systematic and user-friendly manner.
By creating collections, you can organize your products into logical categories that shoppers can easily navigate. This feature is especially helpful when customers are looking for something specific or want to explore a particular type of product.
Additionally, collections can be used as a marketing tool to promote your newest or most popular items.
Creating a product collection
Creating product collections is easy and simple process:
On your TapCommerce admin panel, navigate to the Catalog → Products → Collections from the left menu.
On the "Collections" page, click on the "Create collection" button from the top right of the page.
Here, write down the Collection Title.
Writing Description is optional.
Next, add an image for the Collection's cover photo. 1080x1080 (1:1) recommended with a max size of 2MB. You can also add images from the URL.
Then, set the collection's status as published if you want the collection to be live immediately. Collection status can be found on the right side of the page.
Done! The collection type is currently set as "Manual" by default. It means that you should add products to this collection one by one.
Adding meta title, meta description tag, and URL handle to collection page
To optimize your product collection page for search engines:
Scroll down the page
Click on the "Edit page SEO" button
Write down the Title tag (the title that appears on the search results) to the Page title input box. For the best practice, add the main keyword and keep the title shorter than the 70 characters.
Next, add a Meta description tag (the short description appear on the search results) to the Description input box. Though the meta description tag doesn't directly appear in the ranking, it's recommended to write an appealing description with the keywords to increase the clicks to your page. For the best practice, keep the length of the description under 320 characters.
Add a clear and readable slug to the URL handle section.
For the best practice:
Keep the slug short (under 70 characters overall)
Remove special characters
Remove numbers
Remove superfluous information
Add the main keyword
Make it readable
Make it lowercase
Replace spaces with hyphens
You can see how the collection page will appear on the search result from the Search engine listing preview section.