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Giving visitors the facts

Giving visitors the facts

- Detail pages are where you give your visitors the in-depth information they're looking for. If you're an information-bearing site, detail pages are where you lay out individual concepts. If you're hosting a blog, detail pages are individual blog posts. If you're an e-commerce or business site, detail pages are your product pages where you give visitors the background on each item you sell. Really, there's no difference between what people expect to see on the detail pages of an information site like Wikipedia and a product site like Amazon. They're looking for facts that will help them understand the topic in more detail. The outcome from researching on Wikipedia might be deciding what to write in an essay. Outcome from browsing on Amazon might be deciding what waffle maker to buy. In both cases, visitors are looking for information and it's up to you to provide it to them in ways that create a good user experience. Detail pages should describe the topic factually without resorting…

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