ProStores Tips and Tutorials

Missing the new Default ProStores Facebook and Twitter buttons? Even after you went to Marketing > Traffic Generation > Social Media and turned them on? Chances are that your Header template has had some edits done to it and therefore the code wasn’t added. When ProStores does a code update it won’t touch templates that have edits to them, this is so they don’t destroy all your hard work by…

I wrote this free ProStores e-book for all those, like me when I started, who feel like they are in over their heads with their store. With this free e-book you will learn how to increase sales, communicate more effectively with your customers, increase how often your links in the search engines get clicked, and much more. My free ProStores e-book is full of great tips that I’ve learned and…

Recently Google updated their code for Google Analytics. I’ve updated my ProStores Visit Tracking Plug-in accordingly and since I’ve released it on the blog for free before here if the update too! Copy and paste this into your Header template just before the closing </head> tag. The E-commerce tracking code hasn’t been updated and still works fine. ProStores Google Analytics E-Commerce Code If you want professional installation help then visit…

One Take Media is pleased to announce an exclusive partnership with Bongo International to bring easy International Shipping to ProStores merchants! One Take Media is the only ProStores Certified Designer to team up with Bongo International to provide ProStores International Shipping. Bongo makes it easy for your international visitors to become international customers Your customers will sign up with Bongo and get their very own temporary or permament U.S. address…

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…

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A cautionary post, please read it and guard yourself against scammers! Getting Sales Calls Saying They Represent ProStores?.

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…

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 the page, hence they are the most important. You need to use SSML to remove…