ProStores Tips and Tutorials - One Take Media

Tracking your backlinks is very important. Here are a couple methods to do so.

Sign up for google webmaster tools, it will show you a list of some of your backlinks. good article on finding your links from Google. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html

You can go to www.yahoo.com and put linkdomain:yoursite.com -domain:yoursite.com into the search bar.

I also recommend you sign up for Yahoo Site explorer and you can view a large portion of those who link back to you that yahoo has in its database.

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
type in the search bar site:www.website.com

Click the Inlinks button > click the first drop down and choose “except from this domain” then once that loads again move to the second drop down and choose “Entire Site”. This site has a few tools that are very beneficial. Get the SEO Link Analysis plug in by Yoast, it gives you on page analysis of the backlinks and is very useful. While your at it sign up for Yoast’sRSS feed. Sign up for our ProStores Tips and Tricks Feed as well.

There a lot of third party tools as well. http://www.seomoz.org/toolbox/backlinks is one i use a lot, it will also show you a historical list of your backlinks. It uses siteexplorer but like I mentioned before it will show you how many you used to have. So it provides a good basis for comparison.

Learn 10 easy tips to create seo and customer friendly Title Tags.

http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/09/10-seo-and-marketing-friendly.htm

Read this, then check out my post about creating custom page titles in ProStores.
http://www.onetakemedia.net/blog/prostores-tip-creating-custom-page-titles/

Today’s post is straight from the Google Webmaster Central Blog - Its a great article about Duplicate Content and how Google handles it.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

Duplicate content. There’s just something about it. We keep writing about it, and people keep asking about it. In particular, I still hear a lot of webmasters worrying about whether they may have a “duplicate content penalty.”

Let’s put this to bed once and for all, folks: There’s no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty.” At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.

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Knowing how search engines see your site will enable you to better write content for your site.

Here is a link to a great tool that will show you how Search Engines see your site. http://www.seo-browser.com/

Keywords, what are they? Simply put keywords or keyword phrases are the words or phrases people use to find your site with. They are words that may be used by viewers searching for information.

“A keyword is a single word or multi-word phrase that relates to both the product or service you want to advertise and the way people search for that product or service. When potential customers search for information related to your keywords, your ads or website may be displayed.” http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/ysm/sps/faqs/camaccstruc/keywords.html

If you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at matt@onetakemedia.net

Just a quickie for today! I’ve seen a few people using this already but I thought I’d share it with you all.

<ss:if test="$cart.Details">
<p>You may also be interested in the following products:</p> 

<ul>
<ss:foreach item="detail" within="$cart.Details">
  <ss:foreach item="relatedproduct" within="$detail.relatedProducts">
    <li><ss:link source="$relatedproduct"><ss:value source="$relatedproduct.name"/></ss:link></li>
  </ss:foreach>
</ss:foreach>
</ul>
</ss:if>

How do you indent text / paragraphs in html? I have compiled a short list of several way to do this.
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You can hide the size attributes on the Product/Catalog Detail page if the attribute is out of stock, you can modify it for color as well. You could take this code and modify it for other similar functions.

**note** Most likely this code will only work with Advanced Tier or higher ProStores sites.

<td>
  <font face="arial,helv" size="2"><b>Size</b>&nbsp;
    <select name="size">
      <ss:foreach item="attr" within="$product.attributes">
        <ss:if test="$attr.quantity <> 0">
          <option value="$attr.size"><ss:value source="$attr.size"/></option>
        </ss:if>
      </ss:foreach>
    </select>
  </font>
</td>

Customizing Search Results Next Links *from the ssml support referrence*

The tag provides several different options for displaying “Next” and “Previous” links on your search results pages.
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The following code modifies the Catalog List template to do one of the following:

* If the user clicks a category link and that category has subcategories, those subcategories will be displayed on the Catalog List template as links.
* If the user clicks a category or subcategory link that does not have any categories, the Catalog List will display a list of product search results.

You can modify this code to show images as subcategory links as well.

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