Tag Archives: seo

ProStores Tips – Is Google ranking the best page?

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 [...]

Link building strategies: video

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

4 ways to drive customers from your E-commerce store.

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 [...]

3 Simple Tips to increase traffic to your ProStores Site

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 [...]

Rankings and Personalization: Matt Cutts interview

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

Footer links, smart SEO?

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 [...]

You must track your backlinks!

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 [...]

10 SEO and Marketing-Friendly Title Tag Formulas

Learn 10 easy tips to create seo and customer friendly Title Tags. http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/09/10-seo-and-marketing-friendly.htm Read this, then check out my post about creating custom page titles in ProStores. http://www.onetakemedia.net/blog/prostores-tip-creating-custom-page-titles/

Duplicate Content and Duplicate Content Penalty Myths

What is duplicate content? Duplicate content is exactly what is sounds like, multiple pages in which the bulk of the content is similar. Two issues (of several) with this: 1. When google crawls your site it compares your content against other sites, if your site has copy that is a duplicate of another site typically [...]

View your site like the Search Engines do!

Knowing how search engines see your site will enable you to better write content for your site. Here is a link to a great tool that will show you how Search Engines see your site. http://www.seo-browser.com/