ProStores Tips and Tutorials

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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…

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…

Clean up your ProStores SEO and you will: Increase visibility in search engines Increase clicks to your links when people do find them Increase the ranking of your products Find out what your changes to your site are doing it it Clean up the often seo unfriendly ProStores templates You want to increase sales and make all your effort worth, you need our ProStores SEO Clean-Up! *this is a service…

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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Verifying your ProStores Store in Google Webmaster tools has a few functions: it gives you access to the Webmaster Tools interface where you can get a decent picture of how Google views your site, perform diagnostics, and receive messages from Google. It allows you to properly claim ownership of your site in Google Product Search (formerly Google Base), without which your products will not be listed. ProStores released a video…

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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…