Section Preferences and Rankings
Preferences
The section preferences page is important for search engine optimization. In this step you’ll specify a headline and description field. The headline field will be displayed in the user’s title bar while the description will be sent to the page’s meta description. The headline field will also be used in other areas such as lists, news feeds, and user contribution lists.
If you’ve enabled SEO-friendly URLS in the ‘Settings’ tab you can use this form to set which field will be used in your URL string. Be sure to pick a reasonable field that will not be too long or contain a lot of strange characters (like HTML!).
Section Rankings
Review App includes a method for ranking listings within each section and category using weighted factors like the average rating, the number of ratings, and list frequency (more on lists in the section collector documentation on the left).
First, come up with a name and description for your ranked list. Next, choose the weights for available factors (we recommend weighing average rating at 5, the number of reviews at 2, and the number of list entries at 1 but you can use whatever you find works best). You can also customize which columns will be visible on your lists (for example, the name of the listing is usually a good choice for column 1). Finally, choose which column will be linked (again, the first column works best here). The image above shows the ranking dashboard form (back end) while the image below shows what the resulting “best of” page looks like (front end).
