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How to copy index.thml file to the root directory for LiteCommerce CMS

2009-10-08T20:17:00.001+04:00

I use free utility for text changing in category html files and windows command line commands for downloading and uploading files.

Free utility for text changing you can download here: http://www.gidsoftware.com/free.htm
You need RAT Replace Ascii & Text Utility

The main file is bat:
index-modificate.bat

del index-file\index.html
FTP -v -i -s:index-download.txt
"C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\index-modificate\phrase1.cfg -F -Kc:\index-modificate\index-file -R -X
"C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\index-modificate\phrase2.cfg -F -Kc:\index-modificate\index-file -R -X
"C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\index-modificate\phrase3.cfg -F -Kc:\index-modificate\index-file -R -X
"C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\index-modificate\phrase4.cfg -F -Kc:\index-modificate\index-file -R -X
"C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\index-modificate\phrase5.cfg -F -Kc:\index-modificate\index-file -R -X
"C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\index-modificate\phrase6.cfg -F -Kc:\index-modificate\index-file -R -X
FTP -v -i -s:index-upload.txt

And this bat file line by line with comments and examples of config files:
• del index-file\index.html
I just delete index.html file downloaded in the previous session

• FTP -v -i -s:index-download.txt
Downloading index.html file by windows command line ftp command
Where index-download.txt is the list of ftp commands:

open your-site.com
ftpaccount
ftppassword
!:--- making active the local pc directory for downloading html file---
lcd c:\index-modificate\index-file
cd catalog
mget index.html
disconnect
bye

• "C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\index-modificate\phraseX.cfg -F -Kc:\index-modificate\index-file -R -X
Using RAT application for with phraseX.cfg config file option where
I use 6 different config files for 6 phrases like I posted already above:

href="category
to
href="catalog/category

FlyoutCategories
to
catalog/FlyoutCategories

src="images
to
src="catalog/images

../
to
/

'category
to
'catalog/category

href="style
to
href="catalog/style

All phrases created in separate config files via RAT application interface

• FTP -v -i -s:index-upload.txt
Uploading index.html page by windows command line ftp command
Where index-upload.txt is:

open your-site.com
ftpaccount
ftppassword
!:--- making active the local pc directory for downloading html file---
lcd c:\index-modificate\index-file
cd catalog
delete index.html
put index.html
disconnect
bye

I use the bat file under admin account for avoiding error message from RAT application.

This is it.

HTML Catalog and Dead link on pager in LiteCommerce software

2009-10-05T20:14:00.002+04:00

How I fix dead links:
I use free utility for text changing in category html files and windows command line commands for downloading and uploading files.

Free utility for text changing you can download here: http://www.gidsoftware.com/free.htm
You need RAT Replace Ascii & Text Utility

The main file is bat:

del /q catalog\*.*
FTP -v -i -s:catalog-download.txt
"C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\handicrafts\catalog-update.cfg -G -Kc:\handicrafts\catalog -A_page_0.html -B.html -R -X
FTP -v -i -s:catalog-upload.txt

And this bat file line by line with comments and examples of config files:
• del /q catalog\*.*
I just delete files downloaded in the previous session
catalog directory is for html files

• FTP -v -i -s:catalog-download.txt
Downloading category html pages by windows command line ftp command
Where catalog-download.txt is the list of ftp commands:
open your-site.com
ftpaccount
ftppassword
!:--- making active the local pc directory for downloading html files---
lcd c:\deadlink-cleaning\catalog
cd catalog
mget category*
disconnect
bye

• "C:\Program Files\Rat\Rat.exe" -Cc:\deadlink-cleaning\catalog-update.cfg -G -Kc:\deadlink-cleaning\catalog -A_page_0.html -B.html -R –X
Using RAT application for with command line options for fixing dead links

• FTP -v -i -s:catalog-upload.txt
Uploading category html pages by windows command line ftp command
Where catalog-upload.txt is:
open your-site.com
ftpaccount
ftppassword
!:--- making active the local pc directory for downloading html files---
lcd c:\ deadlink-cleaning\catalog
cd catalog
mdelete "category*.*"
mput *
disconnect
bye

I use the bat file under admin account for avoiding error message for RAT application.

This is it.
Just use bat file and dead links will be killed :)

Write me if you have any difficulties.

Adding articles to LiteCommerce CMS

2009-09-27T00:16:00.002+04:00

1. Look at the directories where your templates are stored,
2. Take the help directory and create a copy directory articles.
3. Copy the contents of the help to articles

4. put

widget template="common/sidebar_box.tpl" head="Articles" dir="articles
in your main.tpl where you want the box
For instance: I added it to the left column after help (line widget template="common/sidebar_box.tpl" head="Help" dir="help")

In the dirctory articles the head.tpl has the heading, the body tpl contains the links or whatever you want.

How to create the static page for article for LiteCommerce CMS you can read here:
Creating manual pages for LiteCommerce CMS

How to verify your wordpress hosted blog for Google webmaster tools

2009-09-22T14:36:00.003+04:00

You can do it with html page verification

It is pretty simple:

1 - Create the page on your blog
Not post but page in Pages section ! With name of page googleyourverification.html The name of page you can receive from Google webmaster tools
2 - Publish this page for creation of html page
3 - Check the availability of created page by link:
yourblog.blogspot.com/googleyourverification.html
4 - Change the page status to draft for hiding it from public
5 - Verify you blog Google webmaster tools

Creating manual pages for LiteCommerce CMS

2009-09-18T00:16:00.004+04:00

This post about LitecCommerce CMS system
There you can finf information how to add manual pages

Take any static page generated by HTML catalog module

Change next list of phrases in the file:
href="category
to href="../catalog/category

FlyoutCategories
to
../catalog/FlyoutCategories

src="images
to
src="../catalog/images

'category
to
'../catalog/category

href="style
to
href="../catalog/style

change TITLE to the name of your new page
change meta name="description" to name of a new page
change meta name="keywords" to new keywords
delete totally the line with td class="DialogTitle" height="20">&nbsp

find phrase !-- product details --
delete three lines before !-- product details --> but leave td valign="top"> in the third line

delete all lines from
table id="productDetailsTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0and till

tr id="addToCartButton">

delete section TABLE in !-- product details --

delete from

table id="productDetailsTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0">table id="productDetailsTable" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width="100%"
till
/table>

Ans you can add your article or atatic page body html text after product details section

Is partnership with SEO company profitable or not?

2009-09-14T00:17:00.003+04:00

How to analyse a potential partnerships with SEO company?
Is it profitable or not?

I have received a partnership offer from one SEO company about:

• I will provide small link in the bottom of my pages to the list links to SEO company partners with limitation 25 links to partners from any page.
• I will not control the list of links but SEO company looks good and serious.

Company will provide the full SEO service for the period of a contract (one year). Like:
• 200 Directory submissions
• 20 Themed links
• 50 Social Bookmarks
• 200 Search Engine Submissions
• 50 Blog & Article Submissions
• Onsite guidelines

Partnership shoud be
And questions which I renerated immediately were:
• Is it profitable?
• Can it damage SEO of my site?
• Does anybody use this type of service and with which result?

And what I have collected like important questions and comments about this partneship:

There is nothing worse then not control raw links on your site.
And exactly what do they think it will do to your rankings?
Which keywords are they targeting?
How much search traffic monthly do the engines get for those keywords?
How competitive are the keywords? Have you seen other sites with this SEO's links?

And I hope the list of questions can help anybody to save their time and money and avoid unresponsible outsource SEO company contracts.

Well... I decided just skip this offer.

Verification of your Blog for Google webmaster tools

2009-09-01T23:36:00.005+04:00

Today I registered this blog in Google webmaster tools.
And I met one problem in verification:
If I put HTML verification code to the blogger template just after first head tag, I receive an error message from blogger.
The error message: We were unable to save your template
If I put this code before body tag verification was unsuccessful.
And I fixed it just adding "/" to the verification code in the end of string.
Example:
You received from google next HTML code for verification
(meta content="'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'" name="'verify-v1'">
Change this code to
(meta content="'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'" name="'verify-v1'/">

After that you can save your Template and verify your blog successfully.

Thanks,
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Experience with choosing and buying a webshop software and mistakes in it

2009-08-11T22:48:00.004+04:00

I am going to write some posts about my experiense in opening of a webshop.
Sorry for my English but I am not an English native person and I will be appresiate if you let me know about mistakes in my post.

Now about subject:
I decided to open a webshop. For choosing I analysed different free software and software with cost not more than 400$. Criterion for analizing were:
1. cost of software
2. possibility to integrate payment system
3. HelpDesk service for software
4. possibility to order the deployment of software to hosting from software developer
5. availability of forum for software
6. possibility to show one commodity in different categories
7. possibility to track inventory of goods and receive notification about low stock situation automatically

Like a result I choose the software for money. It costs for me 154$ for main license and three additional modules according to criterion above. I am not going to advertise the particular software and practically it is not important which software I deployed.
The main mistake for choosing was my total unavailability to make any actions for site SEO (Search Engine Optimization). And I missed the next list of requirement for software which can be very important for SEO:
1. Possibility to place news to the site – it is very important for regular updating site. Search engines like regularly updating sites
2. Possibility to show optional HTML pages to the site for some articles. Some interesting articles can help in SEO very much
3. Sitemap generation by webshop software. It could be not so easy to prepare sitemap file for Google if you are beginner in SEO. Of cause you can use external software sitemap generator or online service. But, will be mach easier to generate sitemap file by your webshop software.

Please write if you have any questions, comments or ideas.
Thank you.

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