Google released Google +1 a few weeks ago and it is here to provide a type of “Social search” for any of your linked friends to your gmail account can see what you have “+1″ on a search and will display your name next to the search result page, check out http://www.google.com/+1/button/ for more info. today we would like to show you how to install the plus one on your yahoo store and align the button with Yahoo!’s social widget.

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Lets say that for years you did not know about a 301 redirect in the yahoo store and you just found out, you maybe thinking that you will lose the page ranking that you have at this time with all the WWW in the URL well we can help fix that with page level canonical. Canonical is somewhat new to the world of the web and is a field that Google and Yahoo both use so lets build one in RTML for your store! Continue reading “Page Level canonical in the yahoo store” »

when i logged into my Google merchant center or Google base account today i can see a new notice that they will need merchants to verify the domain that you use. just keep in mind that you have tell May 18th 2010 to get this done. just place the code in your head tags and publish. have fun and here is the link to the info you will need

Verify and claim a Website URL

When it comes to domain names and finding the right name for your site or business what seems to be the best practice? when you look at domains that everyone knows what do you think of? well i think that the most used domain name are google, yahoo, bing, amazon, ebay, youtube and more, but as the internet is getting bigger and bigger good domains seem to run a premium online. People tend to move to domains that really describe the business and seem to be long and hell to type in. when you find a site like www.this-is-my-store-and-buy-from-me.com seems to be too long in my mind and if you do have a long domain do you use dashes or just run the words together? Continue reading “domain name, short and sweet or more descriptive” »

i am not a pro when it comes to SEO or search engine optimization but there are a few items i would like to share with any readers out there. so a few things that i have seen rank well with in google and is easy to do for a yahoo store is the meta description and besides page title are the only head tags that i work on. now for meta description i like to build them a certain way, i use the item at that page, a short item description then the item price. that will make a iphone charger look like this to search engines

Iphone charging cable, car charger for 3g and 3gs iphones and 2g itouch, $14.95

from what i have been seeing from google and other search engines is they like to see everything right there on the search page, one click to the item 2 to buy that item. why not. now like i said that i am not a SEO god and i know what i talk about from the books that i read and from googles webmaster pages.

more info @ http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897&hl=en