Denver WordPress – Sitemap and SEO

As a Denver SEO company, we continue to be impressed with the way WordPress websites perform in the natural search compared to older site designs. OrderStorm has come to believe that much of the power of WordPress is in the sitemap. When a search engine spider arrives at the Denver WordPress site, it knows just where to go by following the sitemap to index the site with maximum efficiency.

Once the sitemap plugin is installed, any changes made to the site are sent out to the search engines by the software. The search engines know that they do not have to re-index the entire site but can follow the sitemap to index only what has changed. This makes re-indexing sites much, much faster which makes all the search engines happy with Denver WordPress sites that use the sitemap plugin.

Contact OrderStorm for Denver WordPress to convert your old site over into the WordPress software, add a fully integrated WordPress blog to your existing website or set up your e-commerce site using WordPress with an integrated shopping cart.

OrderStorm has Content Networks Available

OrderStorm uses content marketing techniques and Denver SEO services to create Content Networks that improve a customer’s rank in the natural search.  Every now and then we build a content network for a customer who promply goes out of business (much to our dismay as all we eat all the up front costs for developement). These content networks become available to new customers in the same industry.  OrderStorm will create new banner ads for the new customers and re-point all of the links to the new customer’s domain. 

Taking over an existing Content Network is a great SEO value for the new customer. This is a very fast way to get high quality links going to the target domain as the Content Network sites are already written and ranked. 

Geo-targetted sites can also be re-written rapidly to emphasize the new geographic area and the content set on new domain names.  All much faster than starting from scratch – the customer gets improved rankings faster for the same monthly cost.

OrderStorm has these networks available:

Ski Jackets (perfect for either a manufacturer or retailer) – see examples:
http://www.skijacketcleaning.com
http://www.downskijacket.com
http://www.expeditionjacket.com

Nanny Services (perfect for either a Denver based company or can be quickly re-writtten for another geographic area )- see examples:
http://www.cherrycreeknanny.com
http://www.denvernanny.info

Denver Limousine Services (perfect for either a Denver based company or can be quickly re-writtten for another geographic area )- see examples:
http://www.denver-limousine.com
http://www.denverlimousines.info
http://www.denverlimoservice.info
Contact OrderStorm for more information on content marketing, Denver SEO services and Denver WordPress website conversions at http://www.orderstorm.com or call 720-939-8467.

Rigid Building Systems Chooses OrderStorm for Website Re-design in WordPress

Rigid Building Systems – the premier manufacturer of steel buildings in the US – has selected OrderStorm Inc. for their Denver WordPress expertise to re-design their website. Rigid was already a Denver SEO customer and decided to convert their website to WordPress on OrderStorm’s advice to gain better on-page SEO capabilites, improve their rank in the natural search and improve direct sales.

The Rigid website will feature OrderStorm’s soon to be released Denver WordPress template.  The template features big bold graphics in a fixed size for portable devices plus a background image for wider screens.  The OrderStorm philosophy of website design says that the home page must pull the visitor in with large compelling images of exactly what they want to buy.  The completed Rigid website will feature many, many building photos.

Contact OrderStorm to discuss converting your website into WordPress. OrderStorm offers Denver SEO services, Denver WordPress hosting, and a fully integrated WordPress shopping cart plugin. Visit their website at http://www.OrderStorm.com or call 720-939-8467.

Maria Sallis joins OrderStorm, a Denver WordPress and Denver SEO Company, as Graphic Design Coordinator

OrderStorm welcomes Maria Sallis as their new graphic design coordinator. Sales of Denver WordPress re-designs and WordPress e-commerce sites are up. With the increased number of Denver WordPress customers, OrderStorm decided to add a project manager to ensure that all design projects are kept moving forward according to schedule. Maria will fill this role.

Maria has a keen artistic eye and graphic design training from Arapahoe Community College.  In addition to Denver WordPress website design projects, Maria will also be desiging logos, t-shirt designs, business cards, letterhead and brochures.

Please contact OrderStorm to discuss converting your website into WordPress. OrderStorm offers Denver SEO services, Denver WordPress hosting, and a fully integrated WordPress shopping cart plugin. Visit their website at http://www.OrderStorm.com or call 720-939-8467.

OrderStorm launches Farm and Ranch Depot – a fully integrated WordPress eCommerce website

OrderStorm Inc., Denver WordPress hosting company has launched a fully integrated WordPress ecommerce website for Farm and Ranch Depot. OrderStorm’s renowned Denver shopping cart is now a WordPress shopping cart plug-in. See the new website at http://www.farmandranchdepot.com.

The site offers a fully integrated WordPress shopping cart with all the great WordPress features like easy access, easy updating, easy SEO, automatic sitemap updates and a blog. It also offers all the advantages of OrderStorm’s full featured shopping cart including order management, customer management, vendor management, drop shipping automation. Additional features of the combined product include automated SEO friendly page titles for every categories and product, easy picture upload, unlimited pictures per item, easy links to .pdf downloads and video.

The OrderStorm denver shopping cart is now a WordPress eCommerce plugin. Call OrderStorm at 303-939-8467 for more information on turning your website into an integrated WordPress shopping cart powerhouse. Visit OrderStorm at http://www.orderstorm.com.

Advantages of a Hosted and Managed WordPress E-commerce Shopping Cart

Sure, it costs a little more to have your Denver WordPress shopping cart hosted and managed over just hosting on GoDaddy or Yahoo, but the advantages are well worth it. When you use a low cost host, you are on the spot for everything. After you download a plugin, you must make it work – not always as easy as you would like. You also must make sure that all your versions are compatible and that upgrades don’t blow away all of your WordPress shopping cart integration and graphics.

With low end hosts you are pretty much hanging out there on your own. If you have an issue or a question after you download a plugin, you end up searching forums, chat boards and faq lists to see if anyone else has reported your issue and has a solution. This is very time consuming and doesn’t always get you the answers you need.

You can’t afford to have this happen with a WordPress ecommerce shopping cart site. Your shopping cart needs 99% uptime – the success of your business and the consistency of your income depend on it. WordPress e-commerce is great for SEO and easy to update once it is set up. Use your time for marketing and managing your business. Let OrderStorm Denver WordPress design   experts host and manage your WordPress e-commerce shopping cart.

Add a WordPress Blog to your Website for SEO Power

We are just delighted with how well and how fast WordPress blogs get picked up by the search engines. OrderStorm is a Denver WordPress company that will seamlessly integrate WordPress into your existing website. Your website design is incorporated into the blog so that readers have no idea the website software has switched to WordPress. The blog has the exact same look and feel as the rest of your site.

A Denver SEO WordPress blog is very easy to use with its WYSIWYG editor. Just write it and post it. Your Denver WordPress company can also set up all the right plug-ins for you to make the most out of the blog including tags and site maps. Blogs are easily spidered by the search engines due to the category structure and tags with all articles are deep-linked to pages in your website.

Call us at 720-280-3149 to find out about getting a Denver WordPress blog added to your website. Visit our website at http://www.OrderStorm.com. OrderStorm can also integrate WordPress with our Denver shopping cart software as well as produce dazzling website designs.

Integrate your shopping cart with WordPress for SEO power

Integrating your shopping cart with WordPress has many advantages. You gain all of the advantages of using content management software plus the great SEO power of WordPress will make your products more visible by making your site show up better in the natural search. OrderStorm, a Denver WordPress company can provide you with a website in WordPress with a fully integrated Denver shopping cart. With a WordPress front end to your shopping cart, you can easily make changes yourself. You can change out your home page with sales and specials and new products as often as you like.

If we set up your Denver WordPress integrated shopping cart, you will also get the power of the WordPress site map for your shopping cart. All of your shopping cart categories will be indexed in the site map so the search engines will easily find all of your categories. Every time you make a change, the WordPress site map plug-in will send your changes to the search engines so they are picked up immediately.

If you would like us to quote a price for an integrated Denver WordPress with shopping cart, please visit our website at www.orderstorm.com or call us at 720-280-3149.

OrderStorm Invents Brand New SEO Technique with Rank & Traffic Builder

Denver SEO Company, OrderStorm Inc., is the first search engine optimization (SEO) company to offer customers the opportunity to build page rank and drive traffic using a custom encyclopedia patterned after the enormous success of Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia.

Search engine rankings are really based on two things – content and links. The OrderStorm SEO Rank & Traffic Builder focuses on these difficult off-page SEO areas in two ways:

1. Original encyclopedia-quality content that matches the search criteria of the search engine’s users is displayed on a series of separate feeder websites called a Content NetworkTM. Content is king on the Internet. It’s what the search engines strive to provide to their own customers.
2. Add legitimate links to your website from other ranked pages on the Internet including these feeder websites. The search engines do not like attempts to cheat their algorithms and threaten to penalize sites participating in illicit link farms (pages of unrelated links either from link exchanges or paid inclusion) with lower rank or expulsion from their indices.

OrderStorm offers Denver SEO customers the Rank & Traffic Builder to help companies get away from link farms by using unique content to develop a legitimate and sustainable link strategy.
“Companies that participate in link farms are running a very high risk of being de-listed by the major search engines”, says OrderStorm president, Jodie Barr. Google has already begun de-listing companies for using illicit link farm schemes and the others may soon follow. “Companies can avoid these risks by using content to develop a long term link strategy that is insulated from changes in the search engine algorithms”, says Barr.

OrderStorm combines the two strategies of content and links by adding a targeted encyclopedia of custom written content to the Internet in the style of Wikipedia. OrderStorm builds a private encyclopedia of 25 articles for each customer with a separate domain for every article. All domain names are built from the top keyword phrases for each business and use deep links to drive traffic to inner pages of the target site to build page rank. Sites also contain banner advertising for the target site as advertising links are considered legitimate by all search engines.

These feeder sites quickly become ranked by the search engines based on the superior content provided by OrderStorm’s Denver SEO writers. Links to the main website will then come from already ranked pages which drive up search engine rankings further. Content is re-written for magazine style articles, press releases, social network pages and blogs to maximize exposure, links, and traffic. The program maximizes the potential of every word of content. Unlike link farm links which drive no traffic, the encyclopedia sites will build the customer’s brand at the same time they are building page rank.

The new OrderStorm SEO Rank & Traffic Builder offers many benefits.

• Build Popularity – Each site becomes ranked thereby increasing the overall page rank of the target domain
• Deep Links – Builds the page rank of the target domain inner web pages as each web page is ranked individually.
• Build Traffic – Unique, informative content brings real visitors and traffic to the target domain – feeder sites are visited and connect customers to your site, unlike phantom sites created to manipulate rankings.
• Educate Potential Customers – people buy from the business that gives them the best information.
• Generate Sales Leads – each site contains sales lead and contact forms to fill your pipeline. All leads are stored in a secure database.
• Build the brand name of the company, product, or service in the marketplace.
• Increase demand for the product or service.
• Replace cost-per-click dollars with a lower cost per visitor solution and a higher quality of visitor.
• Eliminate the need for link farms and random exchanges – legitimate link strategy poses no risk of de-listing by the search engines
• Manageability – analytics show how many visitors come to each Content NetworkTM site, how many click through to the target domain and changes over time in your rank by keyword.

A related white paper is available at http://www.OrderStorm.com/SEO including search engine guidelines and more information on the new OrderStorm SEO Rank & Traffic Builder.

About OrderStorm
OrderStorm is a Denver SEO Company and e-Commerce SaaS provider to small and mid-sized business (SMB) specializing in search engine optimization, shopping carts, drop shipping software, order management software and dealer program software. Unlike other SaaS platforms that have limited options for customization, the OrderStorm platform can be completely customized for each website and shopping cart. The ability to customize helps retailers create the unique shopping experience they want for their customers and gain competitive advantage over their cookie cutter competitors. OrderStorm also offers groundbreaking Denver SEO services not offered by any other firm. Visit http://www.OrderStorm.com.

Contact Information
Jodie Barr
OrderStorm Inc.
(720) 280-3149
Email: info5@orderstorm.com
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The purpose of SEO

Many of our Denver clients misunderstand the purpose of SEO. They assume that doing on-page SEO things will translate into more sales. While this is the best possible outcome, SEO by itself will not increase sales or number of leads generated. Complete Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a combination of on-page text and code plus off-page content marketing for link building that surrounds a specific set of keyword phrases. The sole purpose of SEO is to improve the target website’s rank in the natural search. A page one rank in the natural search results for your primary keywords will translate into thousands (or tens of thousands) of additional visitors to your site per month.

Note that SEO done right leads to more traffic to your website. Not more sales. Your website itself must still sell. Your content and process still must close the deal. If you are on page one and your site stinks, you will not see the increase in sales you hope for. Most of our clients need some combination of SEO and a website re-design to realize their sales goals.

If you are looking for a Denver SEO company, OrderStorm can help you sort through the combination of SEO, content marketing and web design that will produce results.

Denver shopping cart now integrates with WordPress

OrderStorm Denver e-commerce now offers WordPress integration for its Denver shopping cart customers making it easier for customers to increase their rankings themselves and update their own websites.  This new Denver shopping cart update gets high Denver SEO rankings by integrating the WordPress blogging software into the back end of the cart. Adding all of your press releases, product reviews, case studies, job samples, etc. to a blog boots search engine rankings dramatically.  WordPress also integrates the Google sitemap via a plugin that makes upgrades to your sitemap automatically as you add content.

Our Denver shopping cart also integrates with WordPress as the front end of your website.  By building the website in WordPress, customers can easily add content and change the content to their websites while maintaining the functionality of the OrderStorm Denver e-commerce software on the back end.  This is a major advantage for companies that change and update their websites frequently – particularly content where fresh graphic design is not needed.   Call OrderStorm at 720-939-8467 to find out how to integrate your website with WordPress.

Use WordPress e-commerce software to set up a drop shipping business

Drop shipping software will help automate all the little things that must go on to sell products you don’t stock yourself through your website. One of the main tasks in setting up a drop shipping business is setting up suppliers and managing the supplier interaction so orders are received smoothly and shipped smoothly. The OrderStorm WordPress e-commerce software package has built in features to help you set up a drop shipping business. With this drop shipping software, you can easily add new suppliers and manage those suppliers.

This Denver e-commerce software has drop shipping specific features that include:

• Easily add new suppliers to the system
• Easy update to keep addresses, phone numbers and contacts current
• Each product in the shopping cart is assigned to the correct vendor
• Attach price lists and other documents to the main record vendor to keep track of the latest information
• View a Vendor List to quickly find supplier information
• Set different email addresses for automatic email – who gets the PO? Who gets the return requests? Who gets the technical questions submitted through the shopping cart?
• Easy deactivation of all of a supplier’s products should they go out of business or you discontinue working with them.
• See stock reports – which of a suppliers’ products are selling the best
• List of open POs per supplier – don’t let them fall behind on shipping your orders
• Account information – a running balance of purchases and payments per vendor
• Auto-payments – pay suppliers twice per month by check
• Batch edit prices by supplier – easily update prices when a supplier sends out a new prices sheet

The OrderStorm WordPress shopping cart software has the features you need to manage an unlimited number of vendors that drop ship orders for you. Using a specific drop shipping software solution will make it easy to find supplier information and keep it up to date. Call OrderStorm at 720-939-8467 to get set up today with drop shipping automation software.

Denver WordPress e-commerce software has drop shipping automation

OrderStorm is the Denver WordPress e-commmerce leader in drop shipping software automation.  This WordPress e-commerce software developer has created a fully automated drop shipping shopping cart solution for Internet retailers of all sizes.  Drop shipping software automation can help save time and money for retailers that use the drop ship model.

Automating your drop ship program using this Denver e-commerce software will increase your profit margins substantially. Drop shipping automation software includes:

• Legal purchase orders (POs) emailed to suppliers in real time as orders come in.
• Software interface for vendors to provide shipping details and tracking numbers back.
• Automated shipping notices generated and emailed to customers.
• Vendors are prompted for status on aging orders.
• The amount owed to each vendor is automatically calculated so you can pay by check.

Using Denver e-commerce software to automate a drop shipping program makes it easy for the retailer to manage large numbers of orders with very few staff to maximize profits.  OrderStorm’s WordPress shopping cart software with drop ship automation is also easy for suppliers.  Suppliers can log in to view an administration area with a list of open orders, a running account balance and reports on how much of which items the retailer is selling.  Call OrderStorm Denver e-commerce to find out more at 720-939-8467.

Denver WordPress e-commerce company offers integrated software

Our Denver WordPress e-commerce software is the perfect platform for small and medium sized businesses to grow into larger, profitable organizations on the web.  As one of the leading Denver e-commerce companies, OrderStorm offers an integrated suite including storefront shopping cart and backend order management including CRM. OrderStorm is the Denver e-commerce expert in integrating with legacy systems and other third party software.  Our WordPress shopping cart experts can translate your individual business into unique, functional solutions to give your business a competitive edge.

The OrderStorm Denver e-commerce software package includes:

• Storefront
• Shopping cart functions
• Order Management
• Domain Management
• Drop Shipping
• Dealer Program
• Affiliate Program
• CRM

Denver WordPress E-commerce Shopping Cart Software has Built-In Dealer Program

OrderStorm, the leading Denver WordPress e-commerce company, provides shopping cart software that allows you to use a single website to sell to retail customers, distributors, dealers and other re-sellers.  This basic functionality comes with all OrderStorm Denver WordPress shopping cart store fronts.  Every product has fields available for MSRP, retail price, distributor price, dealer price and special pricing for groups or teams.  When you enter a product into the shopping cart, you will fill in these fields with the correct pricing.

WordPress shopping cart software from OrderStorm allows retail customers will buy from the website without logging in.  Dealers and distributors must log in to the secure site to see their discounted pricing.  This keeps dealer pricing confidential. The WordPress shopping cart will display both the retail price and the dealer price so dealers can easily calculate their margins and set their own re-sale prices.  The Denver shopping cart back end also keeps track of orders and accounts per dealer.

Dealer sign-up is automated using a dealer sign-up form.  The form collects name, address, website, email and tax ID.  Of course, when dealer applications come in, you will still be responsible for due diligence to qualify them as a legitimate dealer for your business and decide whether to extend credit.  But if you advertise that you are looking for dealers, you should get a steady stream of applicants.

Adding WordPress Data Collection Forms to your Website

Adding Data Collection Forms to your Website

Ask your Denver WordPress e-commerce provider about adding data collection forms to your website.  You can add e-commerce forms to collect sales leads, collect measurements for custom clothes, collect registration information, send out free copies of catalogs, request a quote and more.

Your Denver e-commerce software company can assist you in adding data collection forms to your website. Adding forms to your e-commerce website will boost your business.  You can add many types of forms that do many things for you.  The most basic type of form is a sales lead – fill out our form and someone will call you, fill out our form and we will send you a brochure, fill out the form and we will send you a monthly newsletter.  These types of forms give you names and contact information for people who are interested in your products and services.  Have your WordPress e-commerce provider store this information in a database so you can easily send out email marketing messages or have your inside sales team call to follow up.

These data collection forms can be customized by your WordPress website design provider to suit your business.  If you sell an item that must be configured, like a steel building, you can add a form to Request-a-Quote.  Request-a-Quote forms gather the customer’s requirements so you can call them back with a price.  Typical fields would include building size, how many windows and what type of roof.  Request-a-Quote forms are useful in insurance, real estate, construction, and anything else that is made to order.  These forms are much better than the basic sales lead collection form.  Customers that take the time to request a quote from you are farther along in the buying cycle.  Your Denver e-commerce company can set a prompt for your sales force as requests for quotes come in to respond as fast as possible and close the sale.

Other types of forms that your Denver e-commerce company can add to your website include registration forms for events, technical specification to go with an order for products like racing pants or riding chaps where the prices are all the same and you only need the customer’s specific measurements.  Call OrderStorm at 720-280-3149 to add a form to your website.

Denver WordPress Shopping Cart Provider

OrderStorm provides WordPress e-commerce shopping cart software that can help your business grow.  When you evaluate Denver shopping cart software, you should look beyond how easy the interface is to use .  Your shopping cart must be able to help you grow.  Your WordPress shopping cart needs decent order management functionality behind it or you will create more work for yourself than is manageable.  The shopping cart must have all the detail on your orders.  You need to be able to refund orders easily, charge additional amounts as necessary, and keep track of order processing items that need to be done.  If you need to contact the manufacturer to find out exactly how many washers were supposed to be in the hardware kit, you need a place to enter this as an action so you don’t forget to do it and end up with an unhappy customer.

There are many WordPress e-commerce shopping cart platforms to choose from and they all have their good points and their limitations.  Choose the shopping cart that will allow you to grow your business.   Good software will allow you to integrate your sales leads along with your orders for email marketing so you don’t have to use a separate program and mess with moving data back and forth.  Good Denver shopping carts allow you to add as many photos as you like as well as user manuals, assembly instructions, videos etc.

Contact OrderStorm for a demonstration of  WordPress e-commerce software that will grow as you grow into a world class enterprise. 720-280-3149

Denver WordPress Shopping Cart, Sales Force Automation and CRM in One Package

Small and medium sized businesses (SMB) need to manage all facets of their businesses online. An integrated system that can take a sales lead or an actual sale and manage them both to the end of the business cycle is a huge time saver for the SMB. Transferring leads from a website to a sales force automation package like ACT and then back to the shopping cart to get the customer information in after their first order is a terrible waste of valuable time and can be an endless headache.

Select a Denver WordPress e-commerce platform or WordPress shopping cart software to automate these processes with an off the shelf, hosted solution. Denver e-commerce software can take leads that come in from your website and load them directly into your database.  Leads that come in by phone or email can also be entered directly into the database. This is the same customer database that houses your customer information so you can email both prospects and current customers using the same system.

Use the best Denver WordPress shopping cart to ensure endlessly customizable displays and CRM so your order management and order processing can be outstanding. With the best WordPress shopping cart, you will never lose track of actions that must be done to complete a sale of provide top notch customer service. Your customer service reps and sales reps can set tasks or action items on every order, product, service, supplier, or dealer to make sure nothing ever slips through the cracks.

Call OrderStorm, the best WordPress e-commerce and the best WordPress shopping cart provider around to learn how to automate your small or medium size business at 720-280-3149

Denver WordPress E-Commerce Supplier offers Multiple Storefront Solution

Many companies today want to maximize the reach of their products by operating several online stores. Often, these stores are set up to market to a specific segment of their target market or will highlight a single product line. When operating several stores, the importance and savings in time and money of only entering and updating product and supplier data in one place only is underscored.

Example:
Suppose you run an online furniture store. You sell dining room sets, bedroom furniture for adults and children, living room furniture, and patio furniture. Your main website is a superstore – all your furniture is displayed for sale. In addition, you want to set up separate stores that focus specifically on children’s furniture, dining room furniture, and patio furniture so you can target your marketing differently.

OrderStorm is a Denver WordPress e-commerce software supplier of shopping cart software, order management software and lead management software. The OrderStorm WordPress e-commerce platform allows a company to manage an unlimited number of e-commerce storefronts using shared data. This allows companies to test different storefronts with the same products and to have different sites for dealer and retail sales with the same products that are managed in a central back-end database. With multiple storefronts you can operate several unique, highly targeted web sites with a single login and product catalog.

Features of Multiple Storefront E-commerce Software include:

• Different merchant accounts – each storefront can have funds cleared through a separate merchant account
• Different navigation and graphics – each storefront will have a unique look and feel
• Shopping cart back end functions are all the same – making it easy for the same customer service reps to do order management for all the stores at once
• Individual financials – each webstore will have separate sales reports

For WordPress shopping cart software, WordPRess e-commerce software, and Denver web application development, contact OrderStorm at 720-280-3149.

How to Configure a Yahoo! Store for SEO

This example uses ski goggle as the sample search term.

1.      Make sure the Meta-title field has your search terms in it relevant to the product/category for that page.  For example, one of the search terms we are focused on is  “bolle ski goggles”.  On the Fathom page you will want to make sure that you use a term such as “bolle fathom ski goggles” or, better yet, “fathom bolle ski goggles”.   “fathom bolle ski goggles” is better because the exact search term “bolle ski goggles” is in the title.  Do not use capital letters and separate search terms with the pipe (|).  Pay attention to your product names.  The Yahoo store will use the product name as the default Meta-title if the Meta-title is left blank.  In that case, you need to be careful that there is no HTML in the product/category name field.  The HTML will cause your Meta-title to be malformed and not display properly.  Also keep in mind that most search engines will only use a maximum of 60 characters for the title.  Plan on anything over 60 characters not being indexed by the search engines.

2.      When creating a new product/category in your Yahoo Store make sure to use an ID that has your search term in it.  For example: fathom-bolle-ski-goggles.  Even though Yahoo specifically states that this ID is not use for the public it is, however, used to create the HTML page name (i.e. fathom-bolle-ski-goggles.html).  For this reason you will want to use IDs that have search terms in them.  You cannot change IDs once they have been created.  The only way to change an ID is to delete and recreate the page.  (see: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/store/edit/regular/regular-61.html)

3.      If possible, Make sure the Yahoo Store Name field has a search term in it.

4.      Get as many of you search phrases into your Yahoo Store’s Caption field as you can while making sure that the Yahoo Store’s Caption is still easy to read by your customers.  Use anchor links in your Yahoo Store’s Caption to link to other product and informational pages within your site and make sure to the anchor text itself has your search terms in it.  For example, do not use “click here” as anchor text.  Use something like “Click here to see our collection of Bolle Ski Goggles” and wrap the “collection of Bolle Ski Goggles” with your anchor text.  Also, make sure to add a title tag with the search terms in it too.  Here is the example code: Click here to see our <a href=”/my-page-about-something.html” title=”collection of Bolle Ski Goggles” name=” Bolle Ski Goggles”>collection of Bolle Ski Goggles</a>

5.      The Meta-keywords and Meta description are less important that the other elements of the page above.  This is because these two elements are not displayed to the end user and, for this reason, the search engines place less importance on these elements.  Ideally, it is best to have all the meta fields complete but you are much better off spending time and focusing on the content of the page than the Meta-keywords and Meta-Description.  If you would like to populate these fields quickly just copy and paste the Meta-title into the Meta-keywords field (use commas to separate the search terms instead of the pipe) and copy and paste the Yahoo Store Caption into the Meta-description field.

6.      Remember, the first rule for on-page SEO is forget about that SEO and make sure the page sells!  If the page is well-SEOed but does not sell, you can get top of page one placement across your entire industry and still not make a sale.  First, is make the page sell and second is make it SEO friendly.

Blackberry Desktop Software Fails on Windows 7 or Vista

I have noticed many posts about issues with the Blackberry Desktop software and Windows 7 or Vista.  On Windows 7 you may see a pop up window with the error message: Blackberry desktop software has stopped working Windows is collecting more information about the problem. This might take several minutes. This message will display just after you try to start the Blackberry Desktop software.

What is happening here is that the Blackberry Desktop software has some incompatibility with Windows 7 that causes Windows 7 to go to the Microsoft site to automatically check for solutions to the problem.  If there is no connection to the internet then Windows hangs and the Blackberry Desktop software cannot start.  Here is where it gets really strange.  We tried to produce the problem by turning off the wireless switch on the Lenovo T61.  If we went from an active wireless connection and simply turned off the wireless switch the Blackberry Desktop software would still start.  In order to reproduce the problem we had to remove the wireless connection we were using from the manage wireless networks in Windows 7 and reboot then we could not open the Blackberry Desktop software.

If you need the Blackberry Desktop software to tether your laptop to your cell phone for an internet connection this is a very frustrating situation because the Blackberry Desktop software will fail when you are not connected to the internet and that is when you need the Blackberry Desktop to work so you can tether to connect.

To resolve the problem try this:

1.      From the START menu search for choose how to report problems and click on choose how to report problems under Control Panel.

2.      On the Choose when to check for solutions to problems reports window change the selection to Never check for solutions (not recommended)

This will prevent Windows 7 from trying to make connection to the Microsoft site and thus allow the Blackberry Desktop software to open and not hang.

Happy tethering with your Blackberry!