ProStores Tips and Tutorials

New ProStores Template Store!

Matt — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:57:12 +0000

Need a ProStores Template? We are pleased to announce our new ProStores Template store, we now have over 13,000 templates available for the ProStores ecommerce system, all designed by the best professionals around! All at great prices! Shop our ProStores Templates If you use ProStores and need a fresh look you should check it out!

ProStores Shared URLs ‘store0#.prostores’ Causes Duplicate Content!

Matt — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:57:32 +0000

Its frustrating, that unless you open your store with the proper settings on and a dedicated domain purchased and pointing at the store and a dedicated ssl cert bought and installed then a ProStores store will have duplicate content issues because of the shared urls. This doesn’t have to happen. I’ve been working with a client who just watched her monthly sales fall 85% because google finally caught her store03...

How to Add the Default ProStores Facebook and Twitter Buttons

Matt — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:01:25 +0000

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...

How to Add Google’s +1 Button to your ProStores Store

Matt — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:41:52 +0000

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...

Memorial Day – Thank You

Matt — Fri, 27 May 2011 22:26:11 +0000

One Take Media will be closed in honor of the soldiers that gave their lives to make us free and for those that still serve. We will reopen on Tuesday the 31st. Take some time this weekend and thank a Soldier or Veteran for the service and sacrifice. Matthew Montgomery President One Take Media

Page Loading Speed Does Matter for Search Ranking

Matt — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:29:55 +0000

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...

ProStores Bulk Product Editing

Matt — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:06:52 +0000

Learn to edit your products in bulk and you can save yourself a lot of time. Right from the source: ProStores.com

ProStores SEO Clean-Up Service

Matt — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:11:24 +0000

Clean up your ProStores SEO and you will: Increase visibility in search engines Increase clicks to your links when people do find them Increase the ranking of your products Find out what your changes to your site are doing it it Clean up the often seo unfriendly ProStores templates You want to increase sales and make all your effort worth, you need our ProStores SEO Clean-Up! *this is a service...

Free ProStores Tips and Tutorials E-Book

Matt — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:41:36 +0000

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...

ProStores Google Analytics Plug-in Updated

Matt — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:10:40 +0000

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...