Please take out the Search Engine Keywords box! Its useless!

I think this graphic explains it pretty well. The Search Engine Keywords box feeds the Keywords Meta tag. Head of Google Webspam – Matt Cutts – “Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search” – http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/ ProStores even states that its useless in their Knowledgebase. https://navisite.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sys_kb_id=75f5fb0a0a0a3c1b0041ccaab4c99f0a Could you guys just remove the box altogether? You can even leave the alone the keywords people have put in already, just…
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ProStores Tips – Is Google ranking the best page?

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…
Read more...Dealing with Discontinued Stock in a Search Friendly Way

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…
Read more...Leading Zeros vanishing in Excel

Many people have been having issues with Excel deleting the leading zero from a column and then when they import their edited product file to ProStores the items get messed up. Well there is a solution!
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