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SEO Friendly URL Mods For Oscommerce

emily@arrowhitech.com — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:18:22 +0100

There are many mods available for making your shopping portals more SEO Friendly. Here are some of them:

1. Default SEO Friendly option in Oscommerce converts the site into bit seo friendly mode but the URL’s are not easy to remember, here is the option for that:

Use Search-Engine Safe URLs (still in development) – Enable this option to True and the final Result which comes is www.yourshop.com/product_info?products_id=1 which is indexed by all SearcRead More...

Wordpress Blog SEO Tips

emily@arrowhitech.com — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:58:23 +0100

Remove the hyperlink of Title from the single post:
Its common mistakes I have seen in the blogs. If a visitor in the single post then the title must not be hyperlinked.

Use Wordpress Plugins:
Many plugins available free that helps you to make your website more seo-friendly.

Google Sitemap Generator : Sitemap makes search engine easy to crawl all the pages. With the help of this, you can create the sitemap for your blog and submit it in google webmastRead More...

simple seo process

emily@arrowhitech.com — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:50:04 +0100

The Google optimization process is not fully structured, but could result in the following steps:

1) Analysis of competition.

A competitive analysis will help us to know what strategies they are using those "fight" with our company to win the segment. Through this research we know your keywords, its strengths and weaknesses. This does not mean it will copy all of its attributes, but watching you learn. Learn about our competitoRead More...

On Page Optimization

emily@arrowhitech.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:15:12 +0100

On Page Optimization is the most important and complex part of search engine optimization. This website helps your search engine ranking through their keywords need. It should be kept based on which some great tips on optimizing your site for articles while the page is going.

This website helps you rank your page or your keywords to increase search engine ranking will depend on the page of your website search engine optimization on any kind of score. It is mainly sRead More...

popup infobox for zencart products

emily@arrowhitech.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:30:35 +0100

One easy way so customers can see all products information without going to product detail pages is adding a popup infobox and when the mouse is moved over a product image, the product's name, manufacturer and attributes will be displayed on the popup. The demo can be found at: http://www.arearugsclub.com/rugs/karastan-m-1.html

If you want to have something similar to this feature for your zencart site, please contact us.

speed up magento site

emily@arrowhitech.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:06:40 +0100

One of the drawbacks of Magento is currently its speed if default configuration is used. There are certain ways of making it run faster. The best one is to enable GZip compression by changing .htaccess file a little. You just need to uncomment part of the code. In my case, the speed increase was exactly 235%. Let’s start speeding up Magento!

Find the following lines in your Magento .htaccess file and replace them with the following code.

###############Read More...

vertical menu with virtuemart categories and products

emily@arrowhitech.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:02:03 +0100

There is many ways to create a custom menu for virtuemart categories. The most popular style of menu for virtuemart is showing all parent categories in a menu and the child categories will be listed in the main content area when the parent one is clicked.

You also can make a module to show the virtuemart categories in a vertical menu on left and when a category is clicked, the menu opens to show all products in that category. Once the product in the menu is clicked, it should gRead More...

Rokquickcart add to cart problem with third party SEF component

emily@arrowhitech.com — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:46:00 +0100

If you use any third party SEF component/module for your site with Rokquickcart, JoomSEF breaks RokQuickCart even when set to skip the Component. When adding an item to the cart the page should scroll down to the cart, but with an installed SEF component, instead it changes to the front page and the number of products in the cart is incorrect.

The reason is that the SEF component causes problems with links that are just simple anchors. To fix tRead More...

SEF URLs in Joomla! 1.5

emily@arrowhitech.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:32:27 +0100

The primary reason for having search engine friendly URLs is to force keywords to appear in the URL which, from a search engine's point of view, increases the page's relevance for these keywords.

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to implement SEF URLs in Joomla! 1.5.

The most important Joomla security tip

emily@arrowhitech.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:24:42 +0100

Keep your Joomla site updated!

The Joomla Development team are amazing when it comes to responding to security issue regarding Joomla. To fully benefit you need to ensure you are as well. Always keep your Joomla site up to date, and be sure to subscribe to the Joomla Security News Feed: http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaSecurityNews You can even subscribe via email.

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Supported Operating Systems:Linux x86, x86-64Supported Web Servers:Apache 1.3.xApache 2.0.xApache 2.2.xSupported Browsers:Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and aboveMozilla Firefox 2.0 and aboveApple Safari 2.xGoogle ChromeAdobe Flash browser plug-in should be installedPHP Compatibility:5.2Required extensions:PDO_MySQLsimplexmlmcrypthashGDDRead More...