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…

Quick pages matter I’ve been saying for 2 years to any ProStores merchant in earshot that your page loading speed is important, its important to your customers, and its important to their search engine rankings. Last year Google officially announced that they would be giving a bump to the rankings for sites that loaded quickly (second paragraph) and they added a chart to the Webmaster Tools interface. To be honest…

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…

Verifying your ProStores Store in Google Webmaster tools has a few functions: it gives you access to the Webmaster Tools interface where you can get a decent picture of how Google views your site, perform diagnostics, and receive messages from Google. It allows you to properly claim ownership of your site in Google Product Search (formerly Google Base), without which your products will not be listed. ProStores released a video…

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…

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…

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

Its been a while since I’ve blogged and even though the reasons are good, been very busy with projects, a lack of posts on a regular basis isn’t good. So I’m going to be trying my best to write several times a month with good lists, tips and ProStores help. To celebrate I’m offering to answer 1 ProStores question per person. This starts now 12-15-09 at 12 noon Est until…

Ever get to the point where you’re out of stock and its been discontinued? Typically you just delete the item or un-check ‘active’ to hide it. Why is this a bad idea? Because that product has been gathering authority (or Link Juice) from the search engines and if you just hide then boom all that authority is gone and wasted! Also you then have potential customers coming to your site…

Welcome to the first post in a series of four. Today’s video and post will be about Google Analytics filters and how to use them as well as some aspects that are unique to the ProStores/StoreFront environment.