Proper organization of your items is important.
When you properly organize items, you:
- Helps consumers shop for items.
- Helps stores find items.
- Helps Google find and organize your items.
- Helps consumers shop for items.
- Helps stores find items.
- Helps Google find and organize your items.
In general, one may think that naming a product is good enough. But product names are actually not that helpful. A computer can't easily group two lamps or dinner plates together unless they're placed in a 'grouping.' That's the purpose of placing items in 'departments.' Bridge uses departments to group like items. We have three tiers of organization:
+ Primary
+ Secondary ("sec.")
+ Tertiary ("terts")
These departments are extremely helpful since they’re universal and can group and thereby organize 1,000s of items across 1,000s of brands in a uniform manner.
If an item is only in a primary dept., but not in a secondary dept., Bridge may ‘flag’ it and say its not been properly organized. We may send you an email alerting you to this.
Our motive: when there are 1,000s of items, it’s not suitable to just put an item in “Dinning & Entertaining” because then the item won’t be found when a customer drills into a site and looks at, for example:
Dinning & Entertaining > Dinner > Dinner plates.
It’s better to organize a dinner plate and place it in:
Dinning & Entertaining > Dinner > Dinner plates
Dinning & Entertaining > Dinner > Dinner plates
In the above example, these department designations are used:
Primary dept. > Sec. dept. > Tertiary dept.
Primary dept. > Sec. dept. > Tertiary dept.
Aka:
Dinning & Entertaining > Dinner > Dinner plates.
Dinning & Entertaining > Dinner > Dinner plates.
Please find our department hierarchy/master list here:
https://bridge.myshoplocal.com/mypage.cfm/category-hierarchy
If you wish to find out what departments an item is in, you can do that by looking at the item's Details page.
You will see a description similar to this:
Shop by department:
Decorating & Accessories »
Decorating & Accessories »
This items is in the primary department "Decorating & Accessories » " But it's not in a sec. dept.
If you wish to update it, you can edit it, then assign to to a sec. dept.
If you ever wish to see what items are missing a secondary department, please:
1. Login to your Bridge.
1. Login to your Bridge.
2. At the top of your site, roll over “Management."
3. In the drop down, under the header “Products," click on "Missing Secondary Dept."
3. In the drop down, under the header “Products," click on "Missing Secondary Dept."