ProStores Tips and Tutorials

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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…

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 Windows Live ID or create a new one – You will get an e-mail asking…

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! Not sure how to do it or want to make its done right, e-mail me…

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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: http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=176793 ProStores merchants, hopefully all of you are using this excellent free service, if you…

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!

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 of your product title as part of the url. This was last year’s model and…