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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Good interview with Google’s Matt Cutts (head of web spam) by Web Pro News. I’d strongly suggest you all watch it, its only 10 minutes long. More WebProNews Videos