A short glimpse over one step check out extension of Magento

3/31/11

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO:
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.
Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your INTERNET store to the next level.

MAGENTO EXTENSION:
Magento extension is defined as the module/plugin/add-on which provides additional features that are not available with the default Magento shopping cart. There are numerous extensions available for Magento like Faq management, inquiries management, advance testimonials, our services etc. in this blog our focus is on Advance articles extension of Magento.

BRIEF OVER VIEW OF ONE STEP CHECKOUT EXTENSION OF MAGENTO:

Main focus of FME One Step Checkout is to reduce the checkout time for your customer and as a result increasing your sales conversion rate. One Step Checkout Magento Extension is a must to have if you are serious about earning from your online magento store. The six long steps of default Magento checkout process is laborious and time consuming and also creates possibility that your customer might loose interest while filling out those 6 tabs.

FME extension “One Step Checkout” is the single step and is the quickest way to get those customers out the door and those dollars in your pocket.

An overview of ADVANCE ARTICLES Extension of Magento

3/25/11

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO:
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.
Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your INTERNET store to the next level.

MAGENTO EXTENSION:
Mangento extension is defined as the module/plugin/add-on which provides additional features that are not available with the default Magento shopping cart. There are numerous extensions available for Magento like Faq management, inquiries management, advance testimonials, our services etc. in this blog our focus is on Advance articles extension of Magento.

OVERVIEW OF ADVANCE ARTICLES EXTENSION:
FME Advance Articles is a step to facilitate the site owners and the customers with an attractive management and execution of the articles. Now Site owners can create articles with plenty of great features.

The FME's Articles extension provides an attractive theme to the articles which results the customers attention to your site. Besides using it for Articles, this extension can be used to provide documentations or manuals of the products or any other data with multiple forms at a time. i.e.

This extension allows maximum hold of the admin over the management of the articles. This extension is SEO friendly.


Magento's basic technical optimization in terms of templates

3/24/11

AN OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO SEO:
As we know that Magento is an open source shopping cart with so many of the robust functionalities. Design & layout for instance like that of Magento Themes is a complete standard in itself. And also Magento is one of the most Search Engine Friendly Ecommerce platforms. And speaking of the Search Engine friendliness, there are various aspects of Magento SEO, However in this particular blog we will be discussing the Template optimization of Magento SEO.

AN OVERVIEW OF TEMPLATE OPTIMIZATION “OPTIMIZING BLANK TEMPLATE”:
The skins provided in default Magento like "Default Theme", "Blue Skin" and "Modern Theme" are not very good when using headings, so from an SEO perspective, there is a lot of room for improvement there. The default Magento template is core Magento Blank Theme.
OPTIMIZING HEADING SECTION
By default the logo is an <h1>, which is should only be on the front page, and on all other pages it should be no more than an <h3>. The most important thing is to get the title of the content in an <h1> tag, e.g. for a category page should it be the category name and for a product the product name.

The next step is to clean up the over usage of headings. It's a good idea to get rid off the header usage in the side columns, or make the text relevant to the shop (ie. include keywords). There is no reason to add "static" and keyword less titles with an <h4>. It is, for instance, better to change all the <h4> tags in <div class="head"> to <strong> tags. Now it is time to optimize your content, at the category pages put the product names in a <h3> and the category name in a <h1>. On product pages, you should put the product name in an <h1>.

SIGNIFICANCE OF MAGENTO EXTENSION

3/22/11

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO:
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.
Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your INTERNET store to the next level.

MAGENTO EXTENSION:
Mangento extension is defined as the module/plugin/add-on which provides additional features that are not available with the default Magento shopping cart. There are numerous extensions available for Magento like. Canonical URL for Magento, Fooman Google Analytics Plus, Blog, Post Affiliate Pro Connector etc. in this blog our focus is on Google Maps Store locator extension of Magento

USING GOOGLE MAPS STORE LOCATOR:
To include the map in your CMS page/block use this snipped:
{{block type="core/template" template="unirgy/storelocator/map.phtml"}}

Copy to your theme and design the following
interface files:
layout/ustorelocator.xml
template/unirgy/storelocator/map.phtml

If you are importing locations directly to database, go to this URL to fetch coordinates:
http://your.store.com/ustorelocator/adminhtml_location/updateEmptyGeoLocations


AN OVER VIEW OF MAGENTO EXTENSION “POST AFFILIATE PRO CONNECTOR”

3/16/11

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO:
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.

Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your INTERNET store to the next level.

MAGENTO EXTENSION:
Mangento extension is defined as the module/plugin/add-on which provides additional features that are not available with the default Magento shopping cart. There are numerous extensions available for Magento like. Canonical URL for Magento, Fooman Google Analytics Plus, Blog,7. IW PayPal Standard Currencies  etc. in this blog our focus is on Post Affiliate Pro Connector extension of Magento

BRIEF VIEW OF THE MAGENTO EXTENSION POST AFFILIATE PRO CONNECTOR:
An affiliate scheme can be a great way to increase your ecommerce site’s sales, and the Post Affiliate Pro Connector extension instantly integrates Post Affiliate Pro (PAP) into Magento. This extension for Magento automatically handles click and sale affiliate tracking, tracks affiliate sales using Javascript or PHP API, accepts referrals to any page of your online store etc etc

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AN OVER VIEW OF MAGENTO EXTENSION “CANONICAL URL FOR MAGENTO”

3/14/11

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO:
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.

Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your internet store to the next level.
MAGENTO EXTENSION:
Mangento extension is defined as the module/plugin/add-on which provides additional features that are not availabe with the default Magento shopping cart. There are numerous extensions available for magento like. Post Affiliate Pro Connector , Fooman Google Analytics Plus, Blog, Advanced Sitemap etc. in this blog our focus is on Canonical URL for Magento

CANONICAL URL FOR MAGENTO

This extension adds the new canonical links to the head of your Magento pages. Basically Canonical URL is a search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative.  In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see.
Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.  The typical example used is that most people treat the following URLs as the same:
www.example.com
example.com
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp



COMPATIBILITY:
The latest version of this module is only compatible with Magento 1.4. For Magento 1.3 and below you have to download the 1.3 release, magento-community/canonical_url-1.3

Magento 1.4 supports the canonical tag by core. To enable the tag for the category and product page go to: System=>Configuration=>Catalog=>Search Engine Optimization and enable: Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories and Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products.


MAGENTO VS READY CART IN TERMS OF MARKETING, SALES AND SEO

3/11/11

OVERVIEW
Probably the most important section for on line shops these days. Magento has created an comprehensive discount functionality making it very easy to run campaigns. Some of the common features among Magento and Ready cart are listed below

COMMON FEATURES
In terms of marketing, sales and SEO, Magento and Ready cart have following features in common;

  • Magento features provision of Google Sitemap while Ready cart has an add on support for it
  • Magento features provision of URL rewritability while Ready cart has add on support for it
  • Magento features the facility of Meta-information for products and categories while in Ready Cart its automated
  • Both the shopping cart technologies provide catalog promotional pricing
  • Both the shopping cart technologies provide facility of newsletter
  • Magento features Multi-tier pricing and Customer groups each with its own pricing structure while Ready Cart has an add on support for it

INDIFFERENT FEATURES
Features that distinguished both the shopping carts from each other are

  • Magento have full provision of discount coupons while Ready Cart has limited feature
  • Magento has the feature of wish list while its unavailable in Ready cart
  • Ready cart has the feature of Gift certificates while this feature is unavailable in Magento.
  • In terms of design and layout Mgento has attractive and customizable Magento Templates as compared to the layout of Ready cart in terms of Marketing and sales Section.