ProStores Tips and Tutorials

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…

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…

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…

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…

An excellent Link Building video from the Ian Lurie at Conversation Marketing From: Conversation Marketing embedded with permission.

Customers? Phht, who needs them?? All they do its e-mail, call, pester you with questions and buy your stuff making you spend your valuable time boxing and shipping stuff you bought to them… Seriously who needs all that hassle!? So without any further time wasting here are four ways to rid yourself of pesky customers in no particular order.

These are three simple tips I’ve found that have helped increase traffic to each client site that I’ve applied them to. 1. On your Product List and Detail pages, use the H1 and B tags. On the List template find <ss:value source="$catalog.searchtext" default="All"/> and wrap it with those two tags. By default H1 has styling applied to it from the browser, so depending on your site design you may want…

Good interview with Google’s Matt Cutts (head of web spam) by Web Pro News. I’d strongly suggest you all watch it, its only 10 minutes long. More WebProNews Videos

A recent article at SEOmoz, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/footer-link-optimization has me thinking about footer links and their value to your site and its rankings. Most people have a footer with links in their site. Some use it to list pages that they don’t deem as important as the links at the top of their site but don’t want to just not link to them. Some people use footer links to try to manipulate…

Tracking your backlinks is very important. Here are a couple methods to do so. Sign up for google webmaster tools, it will show you a list of some of your backlinks. good article on finding your links from Google. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html You can go to www.yahoo.com and put linkdomain:yoursite.com -domain:yoursite.com into the search bar. I also recommend you sign up for Yahoo Site explorer and you can view a large portion…