Tag Archives: prostores

Setting up Bing Webmaster Center for a ProStores store

This ProStores tutorial will guide you through setting up a Bing webmaster center account and authenticating it with your store. The Bing Webmaster Center helps you see your site as Bing sees it, gives you insight into their listing of your site, and has tools to help you reduce errors. http://www.bing.com/webmaster Sign in with your [...]

Google Base verification MANDATORY May 18th!

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! [...]

Follow Us on Twitter for ProStores Specials!

One Take on Twitter Follow us! We often have specials and links to ProStores Plug-In discounts that are nowhere else! This week we are doing a great discount on our Google Analytics Plug-in!. Only on Twitter!

Keeping your Google Base Account Active: New rules from Google

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: [...]

ProStores Quick Tip – Adding styling to Product Attribute Text

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 [...]

ProStores Quick Tip: Linking to a Product Search

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!

ProStores Quick Tip – Using discontinued products to build ranking for new ones

Quick tip: When you have a product that has been discontinued and there is a new model coming out, you can replace that old product’s information with the new model’s information. Note: this works best if the product is a new/update version of the old one. Example: http://www.fs4sports.com/servlet/the-772/Easton-SV12-Baseball-Bat/Detail. Note: ProStores uses the first 4 words [...]

ProStores Google Analytics Ansynchronous Tracking Plug-in – FREE

I am happy to offer our new ProStores Google Analytics Ansynchronous Tracking Plug-in for free here on our blog. From Google, “asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact on user experience is minimized. It also allows you to put your Analytics snippet higher in the page without delaying subsequent content from rendering.” [...]

New ProStores Template availible!

Steel Blue – $299 – Preview Steel Blue ProStores Ready Template – Purchase the Steel Blue ProStores Template. Includes 30 minutes of Customization time by One Take Media! We have two other ProStores Templates: Earthy – $299 – Preview Earthy ProStores Ready Template – Purchase the Earthy ProStores Template. Includes 30 minutes of Customization time [...]

Power outage in San Jose affecting ProStores.com and Admin page

*UPDATE* Merchant’s stores are coming online. *UPDATE* ProStores is working with the power company to restore working power and are attempting to get back up to full capacity in 2-3 hours. *UPDATE* PG&E Power that services the San Jose area has upgraded the outage from under to 50 customers affected to 50-5,000 affected. No official [...]