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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

During a recent project for a client I was asked if I could apply bold styling to a product’s attribute text (part of which I have highlighted in red). At first I didn’t think it could be done at all and we settled for trusting that the customers would be able to tell. While I was in the store working on the product a thought hit me, “Why can’t it?…

Ever wish that you could direct your customer to search results for ‘blue funky widgets’ in your store? You can! http://www.fs4sports.com/servlet/Categories?$catalog.keyword=cleats Example:http://www.fs4sports.com/servlet/Categories?$catalog.keyword=cleats Just change the address and the keyword and to your store and your keyword or phrase and you can!

Its been a while since I’ve blogged and even though the reasons are good, been very busy with projects, a lack of posts on a regular basis isn’t good. So I’m going to be trying my best to write several times a month with good lists, tips and ProStores help. To celebrate I’m offering to answer 1 ProStores question per person. This starts now 12-15-09 at 12 noon Est until…