ProStores Tips and Tutorials

One Take Media will be closed in honor of the soldiers that gave their lives to make us free and for those that still serve. We will reopen on Tuesday the 31st. Take some time this weekend and thank a Soldier or Veteran for the service and sacrifice. Matthew Montgomery President One Take Media

Learn to edit your products in bulk and you can save yourself a lot of time. Right from the source: ProStores.com

I wrote this free ProStores e-book for all those, like me when I started, who feel like they are in over their heads with their store. With this free e-book you will learn how to increase sales, communicate more effectively with your customers, increase how often your links in the search engines get clicked, and much more. My free ProStores e-book is full of great tips that I’ve learned and…

Short and sweet today. Our Facebook URL, we have special deals and unique service offerings that only show up on our Facebook page. Anyone that “likes” us is eligible for any of the offers. (thanks to all that ‘Liked’ us today, we got enough to grab a vanity url and get rid of the nasty long url we had before.) One Take Media on Facebook

Verifying your ProStores Store in Google Webmaster tools has a few functions: it gives you access to the Webmaster Tools interface where you can get a decent picture of how Google views your site, perform diagnostics, and receive messages from Google. It allows you to properly claim ownership of your site in Google Product Search (formerly Google Base), without which your products will not be listed. ProStores released a video…

***UPDATE*** United States Postal Service – server issues fixed. Merchants who disabled the service can re-enable it. United States Postal Service Experiencing Server Issues – Merchants Affected.

“Long tail phrases are the blue collar workers of the search world. They make it happen. Ignore them and your whole internet marketing economy may fall apart.” SEO 101: Defining the long tail | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing.

If you’ve ever used the custom fields under Customer > Custom Fields to gather information that is unique to your store, you may have noticed that in the new Contemporary line of templates they have been removed completely. I have no idea why, maybe they were being used enough to warrant putting them back in or maybe they just got missed. Either way I have a solution for you. Code…

A very simple, but extremely insightful article on what exactly pagerank is. PageRank explained, without math (really) | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing.

In the past couple weeks I’ve received a couple phone calls from web.com customers that used their ProStores based e-commerce service. Apparently they are shutting the service down and leaving them without any recourse. Its unfortunate that its happening. Thankfully its not too hard to move a design over from one ProStores based service to Prostores.com direct. I’m even helping a couple people with a design and product move package….