Page Loading Speed Does Matter for Search Ranking

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 … Read more

Product Descriptions can be Considered Duplicate Content

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 … Read more

Please take out the Search Engine Keywords box! Its useless!

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 … Read more

Google Base verification MANDATORY May 18th!

May 18th is the day! MANDATORY site verification if you upload products from your ProStores store to Google Base! You must claim your URL from inside your Google Merchant Center, formerly Google Base, otherwise you products will be de-listed until you do so. I have a whole walkthrough here: Keeping your Google Base Account Active! … Read more

Keeping your Google Base Account Active: New rules from Google

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: … Read more