I know it sounds odd, you are thinking that “I have email on my phone” and so do I. So why do I think this will help? If you are anything like me you hate notifications from your email when you get spam or mail that is not important to you, I have over 4 email accounts on my phone and some email addresses get hit with spam all day long but I want to get my new orders as soon as they come in. The solution is easy and anyone can do this!

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Today we will be stepping away from RTML and doing some JavaScript coding with jQuery. As jQuery puts it on their home page “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript”

E-comm Solution loves to use jQuery libraries to build items into Yahoo Stores and WordPress Blogs.  We will be starting a small series to help you make changes in the store without the use of RTML, using JavaScript to help you out.  In this post, we will add a Quantity box to your store using copy and paste. Continue reading “Fun with jQuery in a Yahoo Store” »

When you start a Yahoo Merchant Solutions online store the cart will not match the store, unlike most other shopping cart systems the template will not pass through. this is not a flaw with the yahoo cart but a way to make it more secure and safe for you and your customer but at the same time you will not have the same look and feel of your real store. I would like to provide you some fast easy ways to change the look and feel of the yahoo store shopping cart and help reduce bounce rates from your customer. Continue reading “Your cart on Your store” »

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” »

As of the 30th of march Yahoo! released a new store feature called a floating cart. now a floating cart allows your customer to see what and how much they have in the shopping cart without going to the shopping cart, that is less clicks for your customer and in turn less likely to leave your store without buying something. now if you have a store that uses stock templates then all you need to do is go into the floating cart manager and select the show options then save and publish but if you have custom templates then it will be more work. let me walk you through a few of the ways you can get the floating cart (or FC for short) into your store with out hiring it out!

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one thing that drives me nuts day in and day out is images that enlarge in a new window or on a new page! why when there are so many free options out there that can help you “click to enlarge”. what i will show you today is how to add a light box to your yahoo store. and i am not going to use one that does the full-page only because it has a lot more javascript then i like running (more http request the slower the page loads) i am going to use this option from a site called Dynamic Drive, you can get the code here. Continue reading “Adding a light box to your Store” »

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

today was the first roll out of what i am sure many updates in 2010 for Yahoo stores and Yahoo Merchant solutions. If you are not aware  of what they released check out the yahoo store blog @ http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2010/01/january-2010-release-notes/

One nice thing they talk about is “bringing you customer registration features in 2010 has been one of our top development priorities over the last several months” now that is something that i look forward to as a yahoo MS customer and Developer!!

so most pages in the yahoo store or Merchant Solutions store are a nice width of 760px, now that is small but not by much. i would like to share with you an easy to use and easy to change page width formula for the yahoo store. it is here all you have to do is enter the width that you would like your page to be and that will spit out the CSS code needed to change it.