Miva Merchant Classes Start Tomorrow “Building an Online Store”
I will be teaching a class on “Miva Merchant” software starting tomorrow at Upper Cape Regional Technical School in Bourne, MA.
This class runs 4 weeks starting Tuesday, March 9th 2010 at 7pm.
It is not too late to sign up. You can use this link to sign up for classes. http://www.uppercapetech.cc/computers09.htm#C13
We will be creating Miva Merchant stores from scratch by implementing a Miva Merchant Skin and customizing it. Each student will have a completely functional store with their own categories, products, and content. By the end of the last class they will be able to set their stores live and start promoting and taking orders.
We plan on making these classes available every semester so if you miss this one don’t worry. There will be more classes soon.
Join in on the fun and learn how to make money selling products online.
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.
Morditech Customer Gerry Cullen Witnesses A Plane Crash into IRS Building
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Here is Gerry’s interview with CNN
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Export ADS Image Extra Information to an Excel file
The Image Extra module by ADS does not come with a stock export utility so I have written instructions to export the Image Extra settings to a file using phpMyAdmin
These instructions assume you have access to your Miva Merchant database via phpMyAdmin.
- Open phpMyAdmin and select your Miva Merchant database
- Select the ‘SQL’ tab
- Copy and paste the following text into the text area (If your store is not ‘s01’ then you should update the query to reflect the correct store). This query checks to see that there is information in the Image1 URL. If there is no data in that field then it will not export the data
- When the results are displayed scroll to the bottom and click ‘export’
- If you use Excel then use the following settings:
- CSV for MS Excel
- Check ‘put field names in the first row
- Check save as file
- Click go
- Save the file to your computer and you can then open it in MS Excel, edit it, then import it using the ADS Image Extra Import utility.
SELECT *
FROM s01_ADS_IEProdImgs,s01_Products
WHERE s01_ADS_IEProdImgs.id = s01_Products.id
and s01_ADS_IEProdImgs.img1 > '0'
New Miva Merchant Referral Program pays 55 dollars plus bonuses
Affiliate Hosting Program Details
Refer someone to us and we will give you the first month’s hosting fees as soon as that site goes live on our servers. We pay referral fees on all of our hosting accounts. Signing up is simple and free.
If you are a web master, developer, or web designer then this is a great way to make extra money. Morditech’s hosting services are fast, secure, and reliable so you can rest assure that the clients you refer will be very happy with the service they receive here. At your request we can even transfer the website files for you and place them all under the same PLESK control panel login.
Google Officially Does NOT Use Meta Keywords in its Web Ranking
Matt Cutts, from the Google “Search Quality Team”, officially denies that google uses the meta keywords tag in its algorithm that creates web rank. According to Matt you could leave the meta keywords tag out of your page and it would not make a lick of difference. Even though those are my words and not his that is certainly what he meant.
The video below was posted on the Webmaster Central Blog. According to the article and logic there is no way to overuse or under use a keyword in that tag. Matt Cutts says, “At least for Google we do not use that information in our ranking even the least little bit”. I beleive him.
Check out the video below and check out Google Webmaster Central Blog.
PCI Compliance Scans Are Flagging Non-compliant Versions Of Miva Merchant
Up until now it seems that even non PCI Compliant versions of Miva Merchant were not getting flagged by some PCI Compliance scannig agencies such as SecurityMetrics. We came across a site that was being flagged as having ‘Possible blind sql injection’ and it was followed by a bunch links to the merchant Miva Merchant store. Often times the PCI Compliance scanners do raise false positives and in fact this is one of those times but simply running the latest streaming update from Miva within the Miva Merchant admin allowed this site to pass the scan. Your other option is to contact your PCI scanning company and alert them that this is a false positive and hopefully they comply. You should check with a Miva specialist to make sure the streaming updates will not conflict with any modules or customization that have been made to your store. It is also good practice to check that your additional modules are updated to the latest versions as well.
ALERT: Security Metrics PCI Compliance Scanning is now picking up on non-compliant versions of Miva Merchant.
SOLUTION: Stream the latest Miva Merchant updates from the Miva Admin (If it has been a while since the last time you ran the updates and your store is customized you may want to check with your web master or Miva Specialist before running the updates).
Problem Summary per Security Metrics:
Possible blind sql injection on http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR style=”display: none;”> wp –bsql “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF+and+1%3D1&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF+and+1%3D0&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” POST cat <<EOF > bsql.sh curl -L -d “Category_Code=100&Current_Product_Code=&Store_Code=NTFL&Screen=OINF&Offset=&Attributes=Yes&%3FAction=ADPR” “http://www.domain.com/Merchant2/merchant
Read the official Google SEO starter guide
Google has a downloadable PDF titled ‘Google’s SEO Starter Guide’. It explains many of the basics and fundamentals that every website owner, web developer, and web designer should know. This is the official Google SEO starter guide by Google and not some SEO firm that claims to have the magic bullet.
Download it print it, grab a cup of coffee sit in a nice comfy chair and read away and of course make sure you apply these principles to your Miva Merchant Store.
Google SEO Starter Guide PDF Download
In case you would like to read this in another language use this link Google SEO Starter Guide in other languages
Support Disaster Relief in Haiti
On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Join recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist earthquake victims. Your donation will help disaster victims survive, and rebuild their lives and their communities. With this link you can donate money to appropriate organizations specifically for “Haiti Disaster Relief” Google is also donating $1 million to help organizations provide relief.
This link on CNN gives you a list of organizations that you can send donations to or volunteer.
Please be kind and compassionate to your fellow human beings. This money will go to prevent people from dying RIGHT NOW from simple infections and other preventable causes.
Allow Email Address As Login Name
You can allow customers to use their email address and special characters in their login name. Read more