Colorado Web Solutions

Improved Yahoo Site Search

Posted on November 3rd, 2011 by Brent Carey

Yahoo recently launched a beta release of their new and improved Site Search. It has been a long time coming and everyone at Colorado Web Solutions is very excited this tool is now available to Yahoo merchants. As all Yahoo store owners know, Yahoo’s default search queries have needed improvement. This has changed with the release of a more advanced site search that allows customers to refine their search results based on a number of criteria. Here’s a few of the new features available:

• Add items to the cart directly from the search results page
• View search results using a grid or a list format
• Choose the number of results shown per page
• Refine search results using filters such as brand, price and category
• Sort by relevance or price

Yahoo’s new site search also allows store owners to customize the search settings to some degree. Owners can choose to show the “Add to Cart”, hide non-orderable items and define how the filters appear on the results page.

If your Yahoo store is using default templates – you can simply enable the feature from the Site Search Settings Tool in Store Manager and then perform a full store publish. If your store is using Custom templates, you will need an authorized Yahoo developer to integrate the search within your custom template.

We feel this feature will greatly enhance your ability to convert customers from search queries. We are really excited Yahoo managed to launch this feature pre-holiday. There’s no doubt the new site search will enhance the overall experience of any Yahoo store.

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CWS Client CoffeeCakes.com Celebrates 15 Years of Online Success

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

Colorado Web Solutions is pleased to present this article from the PR wire today about our friends at CoffeeCakes.com and their 15 year anniversary selling online. That is quite an accomplishment and we celebrate with them! Enjoy the article.

CASTLE ROCK, Colo., Feb 03, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —- This year marks the 15th anniversary of Colorado-based CoffeeCakes.com, one of the first Internet retailers to offer high-quality gourmet gift items online. To celebrate its fifteen year milestone, CoffeeCakes.com will offer select anniversary-priced coffeecakes for $15 throughout the remainder of 2010 as well as free shipping on any order within Colorado.

In 1995, CoffeeCakes.com started as an Internet cafe (the first of its kind in Colorado). Realizing that the Internet offered incredible opportunities in the marketplace, Sherry Comes, the company’s founder, decided to move her business exclusively online. Applying her many years of IT consulting expertise to her new entrepreneurial venture, Comes has grown her online store into the profitable entity it is today.

In the fifteen years since the company’s inception, Comes has experienced the usual challenges of running a small business while maintaining a full-time career. Over the years, the company has revamped its website for Search Engine Optimization, taken the functions of fulfillment, inventory and warehousing in-house, and streamlined its order management, inventory control, and shipping processes.

Since the early years, CoffeeCakes.com has greatly expanded its product line (which initially centered on coffeecakes) to include travel mugs, teapots, and items such as coffee presses and tea samplers. “In the fifteen years since I founded the company, I have seen a huge change in customer shopping patterns,” Comes said. “My customers are super-savvy Internet shoppers. They expect high-touch customer service and a broad and appealing range of products.”

For Valentine’s Day, the company is introducing its new line of “Chocolate Surprise Squares” and “Chocolate Bliss Gourmet” gift baskets that can be shipped anywhere within the US and Canada.

The company plans to launch a sister web site sometime in 2010 that will focus on an even wider range of gift items spanning children’s wear to home decor.

To place an order, visit www.CoffeeCakes.com or call 1-800-830-2696.

About CoffeeCakes.com

CoffeeCakes.com (www.coffeecakes.com) is a privately-held company that markets specialty food and gourmet gift items exclusively on the Internet. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in Castle Rock, Colorado. CoffeeCakes.com’s product line includes corporate gifts, specialty gift baskets, coffeecakes and other cakes, tea samplers, travel mugs and products to enhance the enjoyment of coffee and tea.

SOURCE CoffeeCakes.com

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CoffeeCakes.com Featured in Internet Retailer

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

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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CWS Client UsaBrideWeddings.com Featured

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

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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CoffeeCakes.com Draws Critique from Entrepreneur

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

Colorado Web Solutions re-designed CoffeeCakes.com in the Fall of 2008, and since then, the press and feedback has been phenominal for them. Their most recent feature came in the February 2009 Edition of Entrepreneur Magazine  and again was very flattering.

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