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Get the Miva Merchant SEO Tune Up by Morditech – $399

Click Here to order or for more information on the Miva SEO Tune Up:
http://www.morditech.com/services/miva-seo-tune-up

It is not uncommon to start getting more orders overnight from the SEO Tune Up because we upload all of your products to Google Shopping in addition to making your Miva Merchant store extremely SEO Friendly for all major search engines.

The Miva Merchant SEO Tune Up takes Miva Merchant stores and formats them to be extremely SEO friendly so your great content is read by search engines and ranked well.
The truth is that no matter how great and original the content on your web site is you will still not be ranked well in search engines if your content is not formatted correctly.
Although Miva Merchant is formmated pretty well for SEO there are major improvements that can be made. Here is a list of what the SEO Tune Up entails.

1. Short Links – We will replace the long Miva Merchant product and category links with short links throughout your entire store.
2. Canonical Links – We will create canonical links on your product, category, and other Miva Merchant  pages to make sure search engines recognize your short links and remove the possibility of duplicate content.
3. H1 Tags – We will make sure your category names and product names on your category and product pages have the appropriate h1 tags at least once on each page.
4. Alt Tags – We format all product images to have appropriate alt tags for optimum search engine results.
5. Google Sitemap – We will setup and install the template data feed module so you can create Google sitemaps and submit them to Google. We will show you how to do this as well. We will do the first one for you.
6. Google Shopping Product Feed – We setup a feed for you products and upload them to google base (shopping) so all of your products will be available by http://www.google.com/products . We will show you how to run your feed and upload it to google as well.

This service requires the Emporium Plus template data feed module. If you do not already have that module we can purchase and install it for you for $39.50.
If your store is NOT CSSUI then this service will also require the Emporium Plus Tool Kit. If you do not have this module we can purchase it and install it for you for $46.95.

ORDER SEO TUNE UP HERE: http://www.morditech.com/services/miva-seo-tune-up

How often does Google Crawl a website

A question many of my hosting clients ask me is how often Google and other search engines crawl their site and how they can change how frequently they are crawled.

Matt Cutts from Google answers this question in the following video.

Is a sale page flagged as duplicate content

According to Google ‘Sale’ pages which contain 1 or more duplicate products that you have in other categories will not be considered duplicate content. In this video Matt Cutts explains that the Google web crawlers are smart enough to recognize that the information on the sale page serves a different purpose than the original product or category page as long as it is within reason.

Try Us You'll Love it! Free Miva Merchant Hosting for 3 Months plus a free SSL Certificate.

Morditech is offering the absolute best Miva Merchant Hosting deal there has ever been. We are so sure that you will love our service that we are not only giving you 3 Months of FREE Miva Merchant web hosting but we will also transfer your website and Miva Merchant store free of charge. There is no down time when you switch your hosting to Morditech. We will never charge you any extra fees, hidden fees, or setup Fees.

Our Miva Merchant stores are the fastest, most secure, and most reliable available. Try us out risk free and we will prove it to you. We are offering a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee. There is absolutely nothing to lose. If you already host with us then you can add a new store or transfer a store to us and receive the same benefits as a new customer. You can even sign up for our referral program and send friends and colleagues to us and get cash for it. Sign up for our referral program here. If you have questions or comments please send us an email or use our live help button at the top of our homepage or visit our support center.

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Make Your Miva Merchant Store Extremely SEO Friendly

Check out our Miva Merchant SEO Tune Up on Sale for $399 – Let Morditech Make your Miva Merchant SEO Friendly

Finally, there is a list of SEO recommendations to implement on your Miva Merchant store to make it more appealing to search engines when they crawl your site. Miva Merchant is not completely search engine ready straight out of the box. The Miva Merchant SEO recommendations made here are my opinions based on 10 years of experience working with hundreds of Miva Merchant stores. There is no guarantee that implementing these changes on your site will get you top search engine listings because that is mostly dependant on you and  your content and of course your competitors but I will guarantee that using these techniques will get you better search engine rankings than you have now. (more…)

Miva Merchant and Blogging with WordPress

A great quick way of getting crawled by search engines is to create a blog with wonderfully originally content.

If it seems like you have done everything you can yet you are still not getting crawled as often as you would like then you should add a blog to your website. Blog’s have a tendency to get crawled quickly especially if you submit a sitemap to the major search engines every time you post a new article. Often times your new articles and posts will get crawled that day.

I recommend WordPress because it is very SEO friendly straight out of the box as they say and it is absolutely free. We allow you to add WordPress automatically through our control panel. WordPress is extremely easy to use and you can add media such as images, videos, links to video etc. It has a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface option for those that do not know how to code in HTML.

Remember original content is always king. Since you can categorize your posts and links in a blog it is usually ok to post about ‘off topic’ subjects which really broaden your keywords and phrases. If you are trying to sell products on your site then you should stay away from controversial subjects. Don’t make it all off topic though. You do want to post articles that are relates to your Miva Merchant store and to your products and categories. The purpose of a blog is not only to get crawled but to create interaction with people that are browsing your site. If you post interesting material then you will get visitors and comments from your visitors.

The more frequently you post the better and put links to your products or categories whenever possible so that your Miva Merchant store is crawled when your blog is crawled.
Good luck, have fun and POST!

Morditech offers WordPress webhosting. Contact us for more information.

Tweet up your WordPress Blog

I found a great new plugin for WordPress that allows you to display your latest tweets in your sidebar, post tweets from your sidebar or within the WordPress admin and also automatically tweets your new WordPress posts. It seems to have everything you need for your Twitter and WordPress integration all built in.

The name of the plugin is “Twitter Tools” and you can check it out here: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

In addition you can add a twitter “Follow Us” type badge to your blog like the one you see here on the right of the page. I used WP-TwitterBadge but there are several out there that all seem to do the same thing.

Have fun and tweet amongst yourselves!

How to: Upgrade WordPress Automatically

WordPress Blogging and Miva Merchant

WordPress 2.8 + allows you to automatically run updates from the WordPress admin. As long as you know your FTP username and Password you can run it automatically and it takes care of all the extra steps which save you time and unfortunate mistakes.

To run the auto update you just log into your WordPress admin and if there is an available update there will be a message at the top of the page when you log in that says something like this:

WordPress 2.8.4 is available! Please update now.

You simply need to click on the ‘Please update now.’ link and choose ‘Upgrade Automatically’.  Fill in your ‘Hostname’ field with your domain name (example: morditech.com) then in the ‘username’ and ‘password’ field type in your FTP username and password (This may not be the same as your WordPress username and password). The connection type should be set as ‘FTP’. Click the ‘Proceed’ button and let it run. This process may take several minutes because it is doing a number of things including backing up, downloading the new version, and the actual upgrade with a few post upgrade procedures.

Be patient and let it run. If you run into any problems contact your web host and let them know. Usually if there is a problem it is just file permissions that can be easily updated by your WordPress web host.

Good luck and have fun.

What you need to know about WordPress Video by Matt Cutts

Here Matt Cutts explains the in’s and out’s of WordPress and blogging best practices. He tells you about WordPress Security as well as WordPress SEO techniques and best practices. There is advice on how to blog and how not to blog etc. Matt Cutts is a software engineer and head of Google’s Webspam team.