Good morning everyone. I have a few issues with the default ProStores Product Catalog/List template. So I have compiled 3 tips on how to deal with them. By default the page title starts with “Results for..”. The first 4-5 words in your page title are the indicator to Google and others of what is on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An excellent Link Building video from the Ian Lurie at Conversation Marketing From: Conversation Marketing embedded with permission.
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.” [...]
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="$catalog.searchtext" default="All"/> and wrap it with those two tags. By default H1 has styling [...]
What is duplicate content? Duplicate content is exactly what is sounds like, multiple pages in which the bulk of the content is similar. Two issues (of several) with this: 1. When google crawls your site it compares your content against other sites, if your site has copy that is a duplicate of another site typically [...]
Just a quickie for today! I’ve seen a few people using this already but I thought I’d share it with you all. <ss:if test="$cart.Details"> <p>You may also be interested in the following products:</p> <ul> <ss:foreach item="detail" within="$cart.Details"> <ss:foreach item="relatedproduct" within="$detail.relatedProducts"> <li><ss:link source="$relatedproduct"><ss:value source="$relatedproduct.name"/></ss:link></li> </ss:foreach> </ss:foreach> </ul> </ss:if>
How do you indent text / paragraphs in html? I have compiled a short list of several way to do this.
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