Miva Merchant Hosting Best Practices » tips

Is a sale page flagged as duplicate content

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:50:40 +0000

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.

Redirect a Sub Domain: e.g. twitter.yourdomain.com to Your Twitter Page

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:51:06 +0000

We have recently setup our sub domain http://twitter.morditech.com to go directly to our twitter page at http://twitter.com/morditech. There are many reasons you may or may not want to do this but we chose to do it becuase it is easier to tell people how to reach us on twitter if they are already familiar with our website. it also gives us the ability later on to change the URL that http://twitter.morditech.com just in case we stop using twitter and want to redirect the traffic elsewhere.

This is how we did it in Plesk. In order for you to do this you will need the ability to create a sub domain, and use a .htaccess file.

Create a sub domain. Any name that makes sense will do. We chose ‘twitter’. You may want to choose ‘follow’ or ‘facebook’ or whatever makes sense to you.
Create a file named .htaccess with the following directives and then upload it to the web root of your subdomain. BE CAREFUL TO MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT OVERWRITE AN EXISTING .htaccess FILE IF IT IS ALREADY THERE. If there is already a .htaccess file in the web root of your sub domain then you will want to append the following directies to it.
- RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^twitter.morditech\.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://twitter.com/morditech$1 [R=301,L]
You will have to replace the appropriate information above with your information
Upload the file to your sub domain web root and test it. Make sure to test that your main domain name was not affected by this change and be careful that you uploaded the new .htaccess file to your sub domain web root and not your main domain’s web root.

Good luck, have fun.

Number of Items Displayed in the Miva Admin

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:14:43 +0000

You can change the number of items that are listed on pages within the Miva Admin. For instance if your store has hundreds or thousands of products you may want to see more than just 10 products listed when you click your ‘products’ link. I suggest changing the your ‘items per page’ to ‘100’. Doing this makes it easier to see more data on one page rather than having to click the next button 9 additional times to view the first one hundred items. Keep in mind that the more items you have listed on each page the longer it will take that page to load.

Changing the ‘items per page’ will affect several pages within the Miva Admin. Any page that dynamically lists items on a page for example: products, categories, pages, countries, orders, etc.

Here are the directions on changing your default ‘items per page’. This setting is per Miva Merchant Admin user.

Changing the ‘items per page’ will affect several pages within the Miva Admin. Any page that dynamically lists items on a page for example: products, categories, pages, countries, orders, etc.

Here are the directions on changing your default ‘items per page’. This setting is per Miva Merchant Admin user.

Log in to Miva Merchant
Expand ‘Global Settings’ and click ‘users’
Click ‘EDIT’ next to the user you would like to change the items per page setting
Click ‘Preferences’
Change the ‘Items per Page’ field
Click ‘Update’
Test it out and your done