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SEO and Yahoo! Store – Perfect Recipe for Success

SEO and Yahoo! Store together make the perfect recipe for success of your ecommerce business!

The friendship between SEO and Yahoo! Store goes back to very the inception of Yahoo! Store and it has always been the most SEO friendly ecommerce system for its ability to generate static html page URLs. Most other feature rich ecommerce system would generate URLs with query string “?” which are not liked by search engines. All major search engines have repeated declared that they have issues crawling and indexing pages with more than two query strings in the URL.

Although some pro-active ecommerce systems have now adopted this feature but Yahoo! Store system still remains the most easy to use and automate for SEO. A custom RTML enhancement (Automatic Meta Tags) can help generate Title and Meta tags automatically from you page heading and description.

There are several other SEO features inbuilt in Yahoo! Store manager to make your easier and they are as follows:

• You can submit automatic XML Site Map for search engines dynamically for all products and pages
• You can also generate and submit your Product Catalog to Shopping Comparison engines
• You can use Yahoo! Site Explorer feature to view the indexing status of your website in Yahoo! Search Engine
• It also allows you to setup Google Site Map submissions right from Store Manager
• Instantly setup a Blog using Wordpress or MovableType

Apart from these you can very well setup other standard SEO fixes like Domain Canonicalization, custom 404 error page etc. The bottom line is that SEO and Yahoo! Store have good chemistry between them to help your ecommerce business prosper well, effortlessly!

Enjoy Gmail on your Yahoo! Store

I just wanted to share this little trick to all those who love Gmail. You could actually setup your favorite Gmail on your Yahoo! Store and use Gmail interface to check your emails.

We have installed Google Apps on our domain www.website4retail.com which is a Yahooo! Store and we use Gmail. I actually check my email ’shubie at website4retail doc com’ on Gmail interface and it works sweet for me for the fact I love Gmail over any other email program (either webmail or POP3 Apps).

Its easy to setup if you have a Merchant Solution store and takes just few minutes to change MX records and creating an advanced DNS zone which is pretty much straightforward if you following the instructions at Google Apps and Domain control panel at Yahoo! Store.

Cheers!