Category Names Appended to Product Names - it all runs together

[CollegiateAwards]

I've noticed that when you click on a category in ShopKart and then look at the products (either on that screen or the product screen itself), the category name gets appended to the product name and also some words are italicized and bolded. After discussing with David, I understand this is for SEO reasons.

However, it makes the product names hard to read. For example, an award named:

Marble Design Series Acrylic Award which is in the category Marble Acrylic Awards

becomes:

Marble Design Series Acrylic Award Marble Acrylic Awards

and when certain words are italicized, it gets even worse:

Marble Design Series Acrylic Award Marble Acrylic Awards

I believe this is very hard to read. I would like to ask that, if category names are appended, then they are separated from the product name somehow (like with spaces and a hyphen, for example). That way, it would become:

Marble Design Series Acrylic Award - Marble Acrylic Awards

Which I believe is much easier to read.

[M. David Matney]

However, it makes the product names hard to read. For example, an award named:

Marble Design Series Acrylic Award

becomes:

Marble Design Series Acrylic Award Marble Acrylic Awards

Name the Product "Marble" and when the product is found in the "Acrylic Award" category, it will show up as "Marble Acrylic Award" however when it appears in the "Employee Award" Category, it will show up as "Marble Employee Award" - Do not name the product "Marble Series Acrylic Award" - the word series is not an SEO keyword, so it will actually detract from your rankings. Keep in mind, the SEO keywords are "Marble" and "Acrylic Awards" - anything extra is a detraction. No one searches in search engines using the term "Marble Series"

With this said, we are going to provide a way for your to "turn off" category keyword insertion on your web site which will totally remove the category insertion.

Separation with a hyphen tells the search engines a "new thought" is beginning vs. a completion of a current thought.

[CollegiateAwards]

Name the Product "Marble" and when the product is found in the "Acrylic Award" category, it will show up as "Marble Acrylic Award" however when it appears in the "Employee Award" Category, it will show up as "Marble Employee Award" - Do not name the product "Marble Series Acrylic Award" - the word series is not an SEO keyword, so it will actually detract from your rankings. Keep in mind, the SEO keywords are "Marble" and "Acrylic Awards" - anything extra is a detraction. No one searches in search engines using the term "Marble Series"

With this said, we are going to provide a way for your to "turn off" category keyword insertion on your web site which will totally remove the category insertion.

Separation with a hyphen tells the search engines a "new thought" is beginning vs. a completion of a current thought.

I didn't name the product or the category myself - it was brought in that way through the supplier database in ShopKart. I just picked a product at random and used it as an example. I could pick virtually any of them and the product name / product category running together would be the same.

If renaming all the products brought in, as well as the categories, is the solution, then that's nearly impossible to do manually with the amount of products in the supplier database. The category is named Marble Acrylic Awards and there are 14 products in it, so you can see how confusing it would get to just name one of them "Marble". Marble describes all of them!

I'd rather keep the the category names in if it helps with SEO - surely there is another way to make them seem like they aren't running together if a hyphen is unacceptable? Maybe bold the product name but not the category? Maybe a comma? Maybe underline the category name but not the product?

[M. David Matney]

There are now two new options on the Stores "Options" Tab that will allow you to turn on/off the following:

a) Appending of Category Names to Product Names
b) Emphasizing of Keywords

Simply change the pull-down list to select "No" for either or both options to turn off the option you wish to turn off.