Ready to Boost your Yahoo! Store’s Visibility?

Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

GoDataFeed Features Exclusive  20% Discounts from Pronto.com & ShareASale’s Affiliate Network

GoDataFeed, our datafeed mangement partner, has teamed up with Pronto, the Web’s fastest growing social shopping channel, and Share-A-Sale’s award-winning affiliate network to offer Yahoo! Store online retailers a 20 percent off signup offer:

Shopping Channel: Pronto.com
Promotion: 20% off your first month’s clicks
Pronto’s Value: Looking for more value for your online marketing dollar? Listing your products with Pronto lets you reach the Web’s largest social shopping site- with 14 million unique users– and automatically market your products on Ask.com and CitySearch.com.

Affiliate Network: Share-A-Sale.com
Promotion: 20% off your setup fee
Share-A-Sale’s Value: Let Affiliate Marketers become your Online Sales Force  With ShareASale, you’ll be able to upload your own banners, text links, videos, widgets and affiliates will choose from your available creative and send you visitors using their own individual traffic generation methods. Best of all, with Share-A-Sale, you decide your commission structure and criteria and only pay for performance.

GoDataFeed- Yahoo! Store Integrated DataFeed Management & Optimization

Drive more quality traffic to Your Yahoo! Store store by marketing your products on multiple Shopping Sites   If you are looking for an effective, affordable way to promote your products on comparison shopping sites like Shopzilla, Pricegrabber, NexTag, GoogleBase and more, GoDataFeed is the solution for you. You can drive more quality traffic to your site by submitting optimized datafeeds to multiple shopping sites, with more than 50 Shopping Sites & Affiliate Networks to choose from.  Start your $0.99, first month’s Risk-Free Trial and start driving more quality traffic to your site or request GoDataFeed’s Demo today.

Want to save 20% off or learn more about the shopping channel promotions? Contact GoDataFeed or call them at 954-745-7998 today.

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Facebook, Twitter and Your Yahoo! Store

Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

Social Media and Networking are the biggest buzzwords we’ve hear this year right behind talk about the economy. It’s huge. Everyone’s doing it (more on that shortly), but to maximize your time and financial investments in technologies like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace you should really understand your audience. It’s easy to spend time and money on these sites so I think it’s extremely critical to know who you are marketing to.

I found a recent study by The Nielson Company very interesting in this aspect. The news wasn’t a surprise to me, but it was nice to confirm that my theories and beliefs about these platforms was extremely accurate. After spending 13 years designing businesses online, I’ve seen a lot of change in users, technologies and trends…

According to the Nielson report, more than 50% of the entire country has participated in some form of social networking on Facebook, MySpace or Twitter in the last year. Of those people, your Facebook users are typically the more affluent and the MySpace crowd is a younger (MUCH younger), less affluent group (keep in mind that age is a factor since these are high school and younger college kids). The report also showed that the majority of Twitter users and even Bloggers are based in Urban areas.

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Introducing the Yahoo! Store Promotion Manager

Posted on September 17th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

Have you ever wished that your Yahoo! Store’s coupon manager was a little more robust? I would assume that if you have a Yahoo! Store that does any sort of promotional marketing your answer is YES!

Well, we have the perfect service for you now!

I am very happy to announce that Colorado Web Solutions has partnered with a brand new service called the “Promo Manager“. The Promo Manager is one of the  most advanced technologies we’ve seen for Yahoo! Stores in quite a while. Take everything you know about Yahoo! Stores limited coupon and promotions functionality and throw it out the window. This is a whole new ball game. Yahoo! Merchant Solutions recently upgraded their coupons, but this is leaps and bounds above the built in technology.

Imagine being able to quickly and effortlessly offer a campaign that offers “Happy Hour Specials”. Let’s say you want to offer your customers a 10% discount on everything they purchase between 10 am and 2 pm on Tuesdays. You can do that! How about offering free shipping on certain days? You can do that too! Want to reward local customers? How about setting up a promotion where all orders shipping to your home state get a free hat with their order? You can also do that!

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New Yahoo! Store Book features Colorado Web Solutions

Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

Last week a new book on Yahoo! Stores was released and Colorado Web Solutions was one of the selected few featured Yahoo Store designers. The book is called Yahoo Income: How Anyone of Any Age, Location, And/Or Background Can Build a Highly Profitable Online Business with Yahoo and was written by Sharon L. Cohen.

In addition to featuring Colorado Web Solutions, the book also featured three of our clients. Congratulations to CoffeeCakes.com, PopDeluxe.net and ChildrensOrganizers.com for wonderful reviews.

If you would like to purchase a copy of this book, please click here to buy it directly from Amazon.com

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Colorado Web Solutions Launches 3 New WordPress Sites

Posted on September 8th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

It’s been a busy few weeks at Colorado Web Solutions as we launched three brand new WordPress blog sites. We have long felt that blogs (especially wordpress blogs) are extremely effective for SEO and ultimately sales, especially for Yahoo! Stores. These three sites are not tied specifically to a Yahoo! Store, but rather to a collection of stores.

Many people think of Blogs as a way to post news and updates, which they are, but they can be so much more than that as well. These three sites demonstrate that you can built an entire site on the WordPress platform. These sites are not limited to only news and updates!

If you’d like to see some examples of how Colorado Web Solutions is taking the WordPress Platform to a new level, please take a moment to visit the newest sites:

• SkiHelmets.org
• eSnowshoes.com
• AllMountainSports.com

All three of these sites are built exclusively on WordPress using robust templates and custom coding.

If you would like to create a WordPress Blog for your Yahoo! Store that is more advanced and robust than most, please contact Colorado Web Solutions and we would be happy to assist.

Enjoy the previews.

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Yahoo! Store Design Discount Options Announced

Posted on August 13th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

I wanted to take a moment and let you know about an exciting new offer we launched today for Yahoo! Store Design. For a limited time, Colorado Web Solutions is offering Yahoo! Store owners a choice as to what kind of discount they would like to receive when they sign up for one of our Standard Yahoo! Store Design Packages. Starting today, there will be two great options:

1) Save $500 Immediately off your bill, or
2) Receive $700 in credit to use on extra enhancements for your store!

The choice is yours! Some Yahoo! Store owners are looking to save as much as they can and other Yahoo! Store owners want to get the most for their money and enhance their Yahoo! Stores. Now both groups can get exactly what they want!

We’ve posted all of the details about the program on our site in our newly launched Discounts & Promotions Page, so if you are interested in participating in this limited time promotion, please head over to http://www.coloradowebsolutions.com/promotions-index.html to get all the information.

If you are searching for a Yahoo Store Developer or a Yahoo Store Designer, Colorado Web Solutions is your perfect match and now you can save even more when you sign up.

Thank you everyone and have a great week.

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Yahoo! Store Blog’s Finally Get Upgraded

Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Matt Sampson - Colorado Web Solutions

This morning I received an email from Yahoo! Merchant Solutions that made me very happy. Finally the Yahoo! Store blog platform (WordPress) is getting updated to the newest platform (2.8). We have been working with the new platform for quite a while now and we are extremely impressed with it. Blogging has never been easier and WordPress is the best option for Yahoo! Store owners who are ready to start blogging. If you need any help setting up your blog, we do offer a variety of solutions (Basic & Advanced), so feel free to contact us for a quote.

Here is a copy of the email that came from Yahoo! Small Business regarding the WordPress Blog Upgrade.

Important: We will soon upgrade your WordPress blog.

Dear Yahoo! Small Business customer,

We are writing to inform you of a critical issue related to the WordPress blog(s) you activated in your account using the tools in your Web Hosting Control Panel.

We have become aware of security vulnerabilities in WordPress version 2.0.2. To prevent hackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities and potentially damaging your blog or web site, we will soon upgrade all Yahoo! Small Business WordPress blogs running version 2.0.2 to the more secure version 2.8.

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Optimize Your Product Feeds for Maximum Performance

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

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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SEO Experiment: Yahoo Store Traction

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

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 - Colorado Web Solutions

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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