Currently I have a categroy description that is displayed on the search page;

I did this by adding the following code to the file search.php
<div class="category-description"> <?php $cat = Category::newinstance()->findByPrimaryKey($search_cat_id); echo @$cat['s_description'];?> </div>

Is it also possible to display a general description that dissapears/changes when one selects a category?

The reason behind this is because i want to build up SEO value for the listing overview page where all listings are displayed and no category has been selected yet.

I hope that you understand what i mean.

Kind regards Hugo

Currently I have a categroy description that is displayed on the search page;

I did this by adding the following code to the file search.php
<div class="category-description"> <?php $cat = Category::newinstance()->findByPrimaryKey($search_cat_id); echo @$cat['s_description'];?> </div>

Is it also possible to display a general description that dissapears/changes when one selects a category?

The reason behind this is because i want to build up SEO value for the listing overview page where all listings are displayed and no category has been selected yet.

I hope that you understand what i mean.

Kind regards Hugo

From my understanding from support here, the listing overview page (the all listing page, that is https://yourdomain.com/search) is marked as "noindex" so displaying the general description there won't have any SEO benefit. My thought though.

why would one to choose not to index this page? Is this adjustable?

Kind regards Hugo

If correct (have a look at the attached image) this means that it only gets noindex when there aren't any items < which isn't the case

If correct (have a look at the attached image) this means that it only gets noindex when there aren't any items < which isn't the case

As you can see, I raised this concern here: https://forums.osclasspoint.com/osclass/google-say-submitted-url-marked-noindex/
but it seems the explanation is ok (not all Ok in a layman's view though). But what can I say, the developers have spoken

/search is with noindex, as search urls without /search are indexable (i.e. /for-sale/accessories) ... so to avoid duplicated content
I do not think adding same text in all pages is seo-beneficial, but you could also edit search.php and add there your own text.