adding extra text for each category page

[anna245 +]

content is king for SEO but it's also a pain in the a**!!

i know that we can add text for each category manually in the admin panel but that can take a whole lot of time if there are a lot of categories.

can we do something like this on layout.tpl to make our lives easier? in my ideal world i would place the code where i would want it to appear on the layout page, but it would only appear for category.php.

{if $SCRIPT_NAME == "/category.php"}
Search through our {$sitetitle} listings. Buy or Sell {$sitetitle}.

[Eric Barnes +]

You should be able to add something like:
{if $body=='categories/browse.tpl'}
Search through our {$sitetitle} listings. Buy or Sell {$sitetitle}.
{/if}

[seymourjames +]

It is a pain but unfortunately necessary if you really want to get those pages well ranked - of course it matters about links coming to those pages as well. You can add text automatically by pulling out certain phrases as you suggest but I think you will have more success if you make the effort to use the $promo variable on each category as well and put in good page content. Just my advice. The $promo variable was a very good design feature. Also good use of the category slug for getting nice urls and metatags will help.