Subitems...

[Subrion]

We have many questions like 'what are subitems?' , 'How do I use subitems?', etc..

In this post I will try to explain their meaning and seo sense in our script. I will also try to give some brief examples of how they can be used in our script.

Subitems is something like profiles for one account. Usually we mean persons when we say profiles. In our script subitems can be used for different purposes. One account can have several profiles(subitems) of anything. There can be a specific set of fields of subitems. This functionality will be improved in our next version. Below you can read examples of possible subitems:

#1. Dog Articles Sites
It's a site for dog owners where they will share their stories about their dogs. In this example one registered account can have several dogs and create a profile for each of these dogs. This profile would be a subitem. Why do you create them? I will explain this below after other examples. When account posts a story they can assign dog profile (subitem) to the posted story so your readers, visitors whoever else could see that dog profile the author had written about. Dog profile (subitem) can have the following specific set of fields:
breed, skin color, age, description, etc

#2. Car Articles Sites
Oriented for car owners who would like to share stories about their cars. Some specific fields for car profile (subitem):
make, model, transmission, color, etc.
So when authors post a story about their cars, they can assign a car profile (subitem) to their story. When visitors come and read that posted story they might be interested in car itself (not just the story). So they click on assigned subitems link (Assigned Cars for our example) and read that car details.

#3. Product reviews site (let it be software for example)
You decided to create a site for software manufacturers where they can write reviews and articles (tutorials, tips, etc.) about their products. For say I own Intelliants company. It has several products. So I come to your site of products reviews and add my products under subitems section. Of course there will be a specific set of fields for the subitems on this site. It would be something like OS, Price, Size, Version, etc. So I fill in the all details for my all products, let it be eSyndiCat or xooArticles,

eSyndiCat - Unix, 49, 2Mb, 2.1
xooArticles - Unix, 160, 2Mb, 1.0

These are different subitems and start posting a review for esyndicat. In this kind of site I do not need always to post detailed information about the product I have. I just assigned a profile of my software product(subitem) and post story(review, etc).

If you need I can make more examples of our subitems usage.


So what kind of use do we get from subitems? It's SEO sense. Just imagine how many links you will get on your site. We all know the more pages a site has the better positions it has over competitors in Google SERPs. Of course it would be more or less relevant pages. You get at least several pages more from just one added subitem. It's subitems browse page, profile subitems, subitem details, etc. Your site will have much more pages and it will be better indexed by search engines. As a fact it will have more visitors so you get more traffic. If you get more traffic you get more impressions, etc. If you site is an ads oriented I think you have understood it means more revenue

Well, I think I gave quite full explanation of what subitems are. Please let me know if you have more questions or hesitations. I will advise if you need to use them for your site or use the script just as articles directory.

[sealight]

I read your post. I understand that subitems and subitem categories are personal for the users of our website.
I mean one user (username:A) add a subitem, and the other user (username:B) will be post an article. user B can not see user A's subitem. user B Can not use that subitem. Am I wrong.

I tried to add my favorites another users subitems, I couldn't do that.

I am in a chaos about subitems
Please help me

My intention is preparing a classic article web site.
my categories are Business, Healt, Sports, Computer and etc.
there will be sub categories for article catagories. like Sport>Football>Rugby etc.

it is ok for me

But I don't understand subitem categories and subitems. I understand that is good for SEO. But I don't understand way of using.

everything is ok at article categories. But subitem categories

Please Give me an example for my web site.

Article Categories
Computers
Health
Sports
...
Sub Article Categories for Computers category:

Computers
Hardware
Software
Windows
XP
Vista


So...
For example a user will enter an article to Computers>Software>Windows>XP category.
user will write article title
user will write article body
user will choose article category
user will upload picture
user will choose subitem (please give me one or more example for subitems for this kind of usage.

If I will understand this, I can start to build my website
it is very very important for me...
Thank you

[Vasily B.]

Hi sealight
Subitem Categories are not personal. Admin can create subitem categories only. Accounts are not able to do this themselves.

Please Give me an example for my web site.

Please take a look at Intelliants blog. You can find the following subitems there - products. So you simply use company products as subitems. Company offers 2 kinds of products: services and software. So categories for subitems - Services and Software.

here is an example for your site. You can create the following categories for your subitems. Computers, Sports, etc. They can me quite similar to Article categories but/or not the same.

For example a user will enter an article to Computers>Software>Windows>XP category.

You can also rename your subitems to products. Add the following product: Windows XP, or Windows Vista. This will be a separate page where you can describe in details main features, or common information about this software. Or create subitems for Diadora boots. So when you post an article about Diadora products you can assign this product to the article. In this case you will have more pages on your website with unique content.

Anyhow you can better understand the ways of subitems using if you check Intelliants blog. Products = subitems.

[sealight]

I read your post and look your article script again.

subitem categories is made my Admin
but subitems are personal for each username (acount)

for example userA add a subitem1
userB can not user subitem1


I think the most powerful usage is this. Because we can not teach subitem mantality every username (account). But they can choose a subitem which one is interested about their article.

I need this feature like;
Only Admin can add subitems and subitem categories
Users (acounts) only can choose one of them. (users mustn't add subitem)

[Sergey Hmelevsky]

We can create such modification for you, there is no problems.