Updated Breadcrumb Post Tip -

In the blog posting entitled SEO And ASPDotNetStorefront, I presented a way to modify the breadcrumbs automatically created in ASPDotNetStorefront. Well, it appears that I left out one potential way that the breadcrumbs could be presented.

When a top level entity entity (Section, Category, Genre, etc) are displayed the top level is wrapped in a span tag with a class of SectionTitleText. Unfortunately, given my earlier code, this will end up presenting the Section_Title in the same size text rather than the size defined in your H1 tag since H1 tags would end up around the previously mentioned span.

Instead of :

if (SectionTitle.LastIndexOf(sep) == -1) // if there is no arrows in bread crumb
    s = s.Replace("(!SECTION_TITLE!)", String.Format("<h1>{0}</h1>",
        SectionTitle));
else

I now use:

if (SectionTitle.LastIndexOf(sep) == -1) // if there is no arrows in bread crumb
    if (SectionTitle.Contains("<span class=\"SectionTitleText\">")) // This is the root of an entity so strip off this span tag
    {
        tmpS = SectionTitle.Replace("<span class=\"SectionTitleText\">", "");
        tmpS = tmpS.Replace("</span>", "");
        s = s.Replace("(!SECTION_TITLE!)", String.Format("<h1>{0}</h1>",
            tmpS));
    }
    else // this is some other thipe of page
        s = s.Replace("(!SECTION_TITLE!)", String.Format("<h1>{0}</h1>",
            SectionTitle));
else…

This will trap instances of the SectionTitleText span and removes them from the SectionTitle (if found) before doing the token replacement.

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I'm a technologist at heart, assisting companies best utilize the Internet to market themselves and sell their products and services online. This includes organizations as large as Google and as small as one or two individuals.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.

I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.

I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.

I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
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