Colorado Web Solutions

CoffeeCakes.com Featured in Internet Retailer

Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

This article was published this week about Colorado Web Solutions’ (www.coloradowebsolutions.com) client CoffeeCakes.com. The article was published in Internet Retailer and can be found here.

CoffeeCakes.com reluctantly redesigns its site and boosts traffic 70%

After 14 years with its original site design, CoffeeCakes.com recently overhauled its site. The dramatic results have convinced the e-retailer not to wait so long for the next redesign.

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Customize Yahoo! Store Order Confirmation Subject Lines

Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions released a few new upgrades over the weekend that are relatively small but carry great impact. The most signifigant one to me is that ability to change your Yahoo! Store order confirmation email subject lines. It’s not perfect, they still force most of it on you, BUT, you are able to change the YHST part of the subject line to a different prefix and they have given you the ability to add “from MERCHANT NAME” at the end of the subject line. So in theory, your subject line could look something like this:

Subject: order CoffeeCakes-654383 from CoffeeCakes.com

We know it’s not a mind-blowing feature, but I felt that it was very worth mentioning in here because being able to customize that subject line in the order confirmation emails allows for one more level of class that merchants with Yahoo! were not able to achieve previously. I’ll include Yahoo!’s post below along with a link for more information so you can make this change to your sites. It’s extremely simple to change and I would HIGHLY recommend that you do so as soon as possible.

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Optimize Your Product Feeds for Maximum Performance

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

Download GoDataFeed’s Free DataFeed Optimization Tip Sheet and Optimize Your Product Feeds Today

GoDataFeed (www.GoDataFeed.com), Colorado Web Solution’s (www.ColoradoWebSolutions.com) datafeed management partner, has just released its latest DataFeed Optimization Tip Sheet, with the Top 10 tips and strategies for optimizing datafeeds for higher conversions on the comparison shopping engines, available FREE on GoDataFeed’s Site.

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CWS Client UsaBrideWeddings.com Featured

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

Colorado Web Solutions is proud to present an article to you regarding one of our clients, UsaBrideWeddings.com.

Bridal Fashion News! USABride is the hidden jewel for wedding accessories

USABride, A Beverly, MA-based company that has been going strong for more than 13 years may be a bit overlooked in our area because it is on-line based. However, I must say, they have the best deals around, ladies! Gorgeous and affordable Couture wedding tiaras and headpieces, veils, jewelry, combs and pins, and sooooo much more! Some tiaras are even less than $50, and are designed with Swarovski Crystals, Austrian Rhinestones, and Freshwater Pearls!

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Yahoo! Web Analytics more exclusive than Google?

Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

Good afternoon everyone! I just came across this article about Yahoo! Web Analytics and how they are taking a completely different approach to their tool than Google does. Google wants the whole world to run Google Analytics (Imagine the master data they have!), but Yahoo! Web Analytics is a higher end analytics tool that is being reserved for exclusive clients, Mid to High end Yahoo! Stores and other invited users.

My point in saying this is that for those of you that are Yahoo! Store owners, you should really take advantage of the analytics Yahoo! has provided for you. They provide incredible insight to your business, your web store and more importantly, your customers minds. In case you missed the first article about turning your analytics on, you can read it here. Enjoy the article!

Matt Sampson
CEO
Colorado Web Solutions
http://www.ColoradoWebSolutions.com

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Colorado Web Solutions is now 100% Wind Powered

Posted on May 1st, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

I am very proud to announce that as of today (May 1, 2009), the Colorado Web Solutions Main Office is powered 100% by renewable resources. At 12:01 this morning, we left the coal powered electricity grid and have moved completely to wind powered turbines.

As a Colorado native, I was lucky to grow up in a this natural playground we call Colorado. Environmental responsibility has always been a part of my life whether while camping, skiing, golfing and even working. We’ve been recycling around the office for years, but this next step is a major jump to an even less destructive environmental footprint. I am very proud to know that my company is running on renewable wind energy.

Colorado Web Solutions is extremely focused on the environment and our role in preserving the natural beauty and resources of our planet.

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Free Yahoo Store SEO Trial Offer - The First Month Results

Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

A little over a month ago, we announced the limited availability of a Free Trial Offer on our Yahoo Store SEO Service at www.15SEO.com. The response was enormous. It’s been a little over a month now and I wanted to share a few tidbits about what we’ve seen in the numbers for this group of first month subscribers. The second month of reports are coming out this week and here’s a few facts we’ve seen in the data thus far:

• Not One Site dropped in SEO Rankings
• Not One Site remained unchanged in SEO Rankings
• Every Single Site rose in their organic listings
• Our clients during the month of April rose an average of 137 positions in the major search engines
  

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The 90 Minute SEO Experiment - Yahoo Store Traction

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

Ninety Minutes. That’s all it took. My hat goes off to Google for winning the race between them and Yahoo!. It only took us 90 minutes to get indexed in google…

Background: In case you missed the last post, I essentially found a search term “Yahoo Store Traction” that had no organic listing results. I then posted a short blog post using that term (yahoo store traction) in the post. I published the post and waited. Now you are caught up, but if you’d like to read the first post, it can be read here.

The Results: It took Google.com 90 minutes to index a post we made in our blog. That’s incredible. We took a term (yahoo store traction) that returned zero results at 9:45 in the morning and by making one post about it in our blog, it was indexed and live in the google results by 11:15 that same day. I’ve attached screen shots below of the before and after from the same day. By the time you read this there will be even more results I assume since I’ve mentioned Yahoo Store Traction a few times already.
See the results for yourself.

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SEO Experiment: Yahoo Store Traction

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

Be sure to read the follow up post for this experiment with the results here!

For the last few months, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been on everyone’s minds because it’s the best way to save money on your online advertising spend. Good SEO work can eventually take the place of many of your paid terms right now and lead to substantial savings. We have been talking to a lot of customers about our 15seo.com program (http://www.15seo.com) and one of the questions that keeps coming up is “how long does it take to get indexed?” That answer varies from site to site, it really depends on a huge number of variables (including the quality of your site), but it got me thinking… how fast is Google at indexing? How long does it take for a page to get listed from a reputable and well indexed site?

So, I decided to do an experiment. I have no idea how this will go, it could be a total bust :), but, I have found a term that, when placed in quotes, returns no results on google. That term is “yahoo store traction“.  What I’ve decided to do is post a blog entry right now that contains the term Yahoo Store Traction. I’ll type it a few different ways and I’ve also included it in the title of the post. I’m not going to go overboard, but I am going to make sure that I get that term mentioned a decent number of times. Once that’s been published, I’ll start searching every hour or so in Google for that exact term “yahoo store traction” and we’ll see how long it takes to get listed.

Why am I doing this? What’s my point? It’s very simple. Each and every one of our subscribers at 15SEO.com receives tips and advice from us on a monthly basis. The number one thing we suggest is changing and adding content to the site. In Sentences. At Colorado Web Solutions, we know the incredible importance of fresh content, but now we will have a way to prove it.

Hopefully, in the next few days if anyone happens to search for “yahoo store traction”, they will get a result and it will be ours.

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Free SEO Service for Yahoo! Stores for a Limited Time

Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colroado Web Solutions CEO

Spring is in the air! The days are starting to warm up here in Colorado (slowly..) and I’m ready to celebrate the arrival of spring and the slow retreat of winter! What better way to celebrate than offering Free Services!? :)

I’m very happy to announce that for an extremely limited time, we have decided to waive the set up fees ($50) and provide your first month Free (another $15) when you give 15SEO.com a try with your Yahoo! Store. That’s a $65 savings for you and a free month to try out our SEO reporting and services for your Yahoo! Store.

If you would like to try out this Free No Risk Trial Offer, please head over to http://www.15seo.com right now and sign up. Like I said, this is an extremely limited promotion, so don’t delay.

What is 15SEO.com?

15SEO.com was built for one simple purpose. We provide SEO Submissions, Tips and Advice, Set Up and Reporting for Yahoo! Stores. Rates start at only $15 a month and each month you will receive detailed SEO reports (examples here) as well as regular submissions to the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, etc. Additionally, we will ensure that your Yahoo! Store has a Google site map installed and running, and that it has been posted with Google and verified. We will also make sure your catalog feeds are turned on and active for the shopping comparison engines including Google Base (also known as Google Product Submit or Froogle).

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