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Installing Prestashop Locally
So you have seen Prestashop and you want to try it out, but maybe you do not want to pay for web hosting to test it out with. No problem, I will show you how to install Prestashop locally so that you...
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Google Paid vs Organic Search
Here is an interesting infographic from our friends at Wordstream showing the direction that Google searches are going to. Who would have thought paid searches are the way of the future. by Lesley...
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The SEO Tools I Use
Everyone has something different in their toolboxes, some like this, some like that. Some use automatic link building tools while others build links by hand. I am a hand link builder and I use a lot of...
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SEO Trends of 2013
2012 was a good year, but where is 2013 leaning? Hopefully it is going to be better for you than the last year. What do you need to do to make it a standout year? Let me give you a little insight to...
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Cart Abandonment
Are you having abandonment issues? You have people coming to your site, they are putting things in their carts, but they are not sealing the deal. I can help you mitigate the problem, but it will take...
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Prestashop Advanced Open Graph Tags
In a past article I have shown you how to set up the Open Graph Protocol tags for Prestashop. But lets take it one step further. Instead of using your logo for posts, lets use our product images. If...
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SEO a Case Study of a Client
SEO, like most other industries, is results driven. I encounter prospective clients every week that have used an SEO company that did not produce results for them. How can you weed out the wheat from...
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How Page Speed Affects Rankings
Here is an interesting infographic from our friends at Quick Sprout about how page load times affect your Google rankings. Do you know how fast your site is? by Lesley Paone is an expert in...
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Speed Prestashop up with php.ini
I kind of lied in the title, doing this will actually speed all php programs up. This is a dead simple trick and if you host lets you take advantage of using a php.ini you can greatly increase the...
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Prestashop Tracking in Customer Account
The other day while working on one of my clients shops, I noticed something. In Prestashop, when you send a tracking number after a purchase, nothing is posted in the account of the user. At first I...
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$100 Prestashop Addons Store Give Away
I am proud to announce in conjunction with Prestashop we are going to offer a $100 gift certificate to the official Prestashop Addons Store. Use the entry form below to enter and good luck! a...
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200 Search Ranking Factors
The guys over at Entrepreneur.com have compiled a list of the 200 ranking factors that Google uses to rank sites in the search engines results page. How does your site stack up? by Lesley Paone...
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Prestashop Error Reporting
Sometimes when you are working with Prestashop things just go wrong. The best way to figure out what is wrong is to turn on error reporting in Prestashop. Error reporting will print out errors that...
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Minimum Limits Based on Customer Groups
A couple of weeks ago I had a client with an unusual request. Their shop sells both retail and wholesale, but in their wholesale agreement there are two stipulations. When a new wholesale account is...
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Using APC to Speed up Prestashop
Using APC you can greatly speed up Prestashop. If you are familiar with APC, it stands for Alternative PHP Cache. What it does is kind of complicated to explain. On a basic level, it caches the...
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Prestashop Importing Product CSV Files
Importing CSV files into Prestashop can be very power and an amazing time saver, but some times it is tricky. Most of the problems with importing CSV files can either be traced to either incorrectly...
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Prestashop Meta Titles
Someone approached me the other day with an interesting question. They wanted to remove their shop name from the meta titles that Prestashop creates. This was a request that I haven’t heard yet and...
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Prestashop sort by date
It seems more and more lately I am running into unusual request with Prestashop. Earlier this week one of my clients contacted me and wanted to add the option to their category pages to sort by date....
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Prestashop 1.6 Optimization
I receive a number of emails every week about speed optimization for Prestashop. People ask what I do, how it works, what can be expected, and other questions about the optimization process. I figured...
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Prestashop 1.6 Media Servers
If you are not using Prestashop 1.6 yet, you really should check it out. It has a redesigned back office, template, and a lot of speed enhancements as well. One thing you can do to further optimize the...
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