ProStores Tips and Tutorials

Missing the new Default ProStores Facebook and Twitter buttons? Even after you went to Marketing > Traffic Generation > Social Media and turned them on? Chances are that your Header template has had some edits done to it and therefore the code wasn’t added. When ProStores does a code update it won’t touch templates that have edits to them, this is so they don’t destroy all your hard work by…

Just today Google announced a great new tool, a +1 button that you can install on your store’s pages, this button lets people who visit your site recommend the page they are visiting. “+1 buttons let people who love your content recommend it on Google search ” – Google +1 Button Page We have put together a guide on how to install the Google +1 button in your store and…

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…

Recently Google updated their code for Google Analytics. I’ve updated my ProStores Visit Tracking Plug-in accordingly and since I’ve released it on the blog for free before here if the update too! Copy and paste this into your Header template just before the closing </head> tag. The E-commerce tracking code hasn’t been updated and still works fine. ProStores Google Analytics E-Commerce Code If you want professional installation help then visit…

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…

Good morning everyone. I have a few issues with the default ProStores Product Catalog/List template. So I have compiled 3 tips on how to deal with them. By default the page title starts with “Results for..”. The first 4-5 words in your page title are the indicator to Google and others of what is on the page, hence they are the most important. You need to use SSML to remove…

I am happy to offer our new ProStores Google Analytics Ansynchronous Tracking Plug-in for free here on our blog. From Google, “asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact on user experience is minimized. It also allows you to put your Analytics snippet higher in the page without delaying subsequent content from rendering.” Its also much more flexible and advanced, as well as more accurate, you can push…

Ever get to the point where you’re out of stock and its been discontinued? Typically you just delete the item or un-check ‘active’ to hide it. Why is this a bad idea? Because that product has been gathering authority (or Link Juice) from the search engines and if you just hide then boom all that authority is gone and wasted! Also you then have potential customers coming to your site…

1. use an external stylesheet. 2. put your external stylesheet in your templateSet images folder. 3. reference your images in your stylesheet like so: background:url(bg.jpg); – Using no paths. 4. Use ssml to reference your stylesheet in your header template. <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” title=”style” href=”$storeVersion.images['style.css']“/>

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