ProStores Tips and Tutorials

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A cautionary post, please read it and guard yourself against scammers! Getting Sales Calls Saying They Represent ProStores?.

I think this graphic explains it pretty well. The Search Engine Keywords box feeds the Keywords Meta tag. Head of Google Webspam – Matt Cutts – “Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search” – http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/ ProStores even states that its useless in their Knowledgebase. https://navisite.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sys_kb_id=75f5fb0a0a0a3c1b0041ccaab4c99f0a Could you guys just remove the box altogether? You can even leave the alone the keywords people have put in already, just…

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May 18th is the day! MANDATORY site verification if you upload products from your ProStores store to Google Base! You must claim your URL from inside your Google Merchant Center, formerly Google Base, otherwise you products will be de-listed until you do so. I have a whole walkthrough here: Keeping your Google Base Account Active! Not sure how to do it or want to make its done right, e-mail me…

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On 3-24-10 I got an e-mail from Google stating that all users of Google Base / Product upload need to verify and claim their URL to ensure that they are the only ones with authorization to upload products. In 8 weeks it will be required or else you will be prevented from uploading products. Source: http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=176793 ProStores merchants, hopefully all of you are using this excellent free service, if you…

***UPDATE*** Found a way around this, just put in the root domain, i.e. www.perrysjewelry.com without the /servlet/StoreFront on it. That pretty much makes it a non issue. ***UPDATE*** Very recently Google made a change to their Webmaster Tools that will adversely affect a ProStores store that wants to add their site and get it verified. They have started to automatically append a trailing ‘/’ slash to the urls entered into…

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