ProStores Tips and Tutorials

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…

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Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team lays out why its important to write your own content. I can tell you that when I have a ProStores client that is selling a branded item that comes with a manufacturer provided description those products always do better if they let me take that information and write a unique description than if they just stuck with the original manufacturer description. One of…

Ever wonder which one of your pages Google thinks should rank best for a search phrase? Its easy. Just use: site:yousite.com + Term Example: site:onetakemedia.net + prostores tips Google tells me that it thinks that my blog home page, ProStores Tips and Tutorials is the best page out of all of my pages for that search phrase. If you are an e-commerce owner, which most of you are, you can…

These are three simple tips I’ve found that have helped increase traffic to each client site that I’ve applied them to. 1. On your Product List and Detail pages, use the H1 and B tags. On the List template find <ss:value source="$catalog.searchtext" default="All"/> and wrap it with those two tags. By default H1 has styling applied to it from the browser, so depending on your site design you may want…