ProStores Tips and Tutorials

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…

Quick pages matter I’ve been saying for 2 years to any ProStores merchant in earshot that your page loading speed is important, its important to your customers, and its important to their search engine rankings. Last year Google officially announced that they would be giving a bump to the rankings for sites that loaded quickly (second paragraph) and they added a chart to the Webmaster Tools interface. To be honest…

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…

Google updated their Google Analytics web tracking software: New and Expanded Features: 2 new Goal Types: Time on Site and Pages per Visit Goals per account increased to 20 goals Expanded Mobile Reporting: measure more mobile devices and measure them better, javascript or not. Advanced Table Filtering feature Unique Visitor Metric: Now when you create a Custom Report, you can select Unique Visitors as a metric against any dimensions in…

Welcome to the first post in a series of four. Today’s video and post will be about Google Analytics filters and how to use them as well as some aspects that are unique to the ProStores/StoreFront environment.

Installing Google Analytics: Prostores Video Tutorial

Last Friday’s Whiteboard Friday from SEOmoz.com contained some really good information about why and how websites show up in search the way they do. Take a few minutes to watch and listen, then apply what you’ve learned to your ProStores sites. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Domain Trust & Authority from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. Getting Google Analytics installed will help massively with tracking some of these elements and help you…

Goal tracking in Google Analytics is important for your ProStores store. What is goal tracking? Goal tracking allows you to specify particular pages to track, usually in sequence. In this ProStores tutorial I will be showing you the set up, steps, and an example of setting up a Google Analytics Goal in ProStores. Lets assume you are already logged into your google account and are at the Google Analytics page…

Google Analytics filters and how to use them.

Hey folks, next week, Tuesday, Ian Lurie of Portent Interactive and author of Conversation Marketing, a Internet Marketing Strategy blog will be hold a FREE Webinar. Ian is a good friend of mind and really knows what he is doing. You NEED to attend this! Btw, I’m not making any money or anything like that, I’m just trying to inform all of you that read my blog and want to…