Yahoo! Store Book, Ystore Blog, & 2006 Seminars!

Dreaming of 301ing my non-www domain URLS to my www domain

Link: Google: Help Center.

If your site is appearing as two different listings in our search results, we suggest consolidating these listings so we can more accurately determine your site's PageRank. The easiest way to do so is to redirect your http URL to your www URL using a 301 redirect. This should resolve the situation after our crawler discovers the change. For more information about 301 HTTP redirects, please see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

I guess Yahoo Store owners can only dream... C'mon, Sunnyvale! If Belleville can do it, and Mountainview wants it, why can't we? I mean, enjoy! Now we can 301 everything! -- June 2007

-- ROB PS The new XML Site Maps thing rocks, fellas!

The Official Yahoo! Store Blog - Tips and Tricks for Making Your Store Successful

Read: The Official Yahoo! Store Blog - Tips and Tricks for Making Your Store Successful.

Tips on Mining Converting Keywords
March 21, 2006
Today’s Y!Store blog is a guest column by long time Yahoo! Store owner and developer Rob Snell of Snell Brothers. Rob posts regularly in his blog about all things Yahoo! Store, is the author of the upcoming book, “Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies,” and is conducting Yahoo! Store marketing workshops beginning this spring in California.

Can you do me a quick favor? Can you look over something I wrote?

Yahoo just posted my first guest column in the Official Yahoo Store
Blog covering making more with your store by collecting your
converting keywords. Click this link to jump straight to
the blog page: See http://www.robsnell.com/y.html

And SECRET #17 IS FORTHCOMING FOR THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! (And if you don't, drop me an email at rob at ystore dot com and I'll let you in on the secret!)

Rob
PS Spending all weekend getting my Seminar stuff together. See y'all in LA or SF in April!

Here are some more links to various Yahoo! Store PDFs

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions/Yahoo! Store and UPS OnLine® Tools

http://store.yahoo.com/lib/vw/Yahoo- · UPSWorldShip-documentation.ZIP. There are eight steps for importing shipment. information from UPS WorldShip (Note: ... lib.store.yahoo.com/lib/vw/MS-App-Note-UPS-OnLine-Tools.pdf -

Merchant Solutions Order Processing Guide

1. PROCESSING CREDIT CARD ORDERS. 1. PROCESSING CREDIT CARD ORDERS. Note: If your store already has online credit card processing set up, you can start with ... lib.store.yahoo.com/lib/vw/ms-order-processing-guide.pdf -

Store Editor Variables Guide.fm

57. Chapter. Getting Started Guide. Merchant Solutions. 6. EDITING PAGE LAYOUT AND NAVIGATION. This chapter explains how to change the look and feel of your ... lib.store.yahoo.com/lib/vw/Store-Editor-Variables-Guide.pdf -

 OBI™ Technical Specifications Open Buying on the Internet

 

OBI™. Technical Specifications. Open Buying on the Internet. Draft Release V2.1. Copyright © 1999 The OBI Consortium. All Rights Reserved. ... lib.store.yahoo.com/lib/vw/OBIv210.pdf

Yahoo! Store's OPEN FOR BUSINESS PDF

Doing a little homework on the book. Here are some cool Yahoo! Store PDF's you probably know about. Use Google or Yahoo!'s advanced operators to find cool PDFs. For example,search for
inurl:store.yahoo.com/lib/vw/ filetype:pdf

Yahoo! Store's OPEN FOR BUSINESS PDF
http://lib.store.yahoo.com/lib/vw/Open-for-Business.pdf
RIGHT CLICK ON THIS LINK and SAVE-AS to your DESKTOP

-- This 11 page color booklet covers the basics of what you need to do to open a Yahoo! Store / Merchant Solutions account. The six steps are research and planning, building our store, setting up an online payment processing option, publishing your order settings, complete the open for business checklist, and tracking your progress and revising your business plan.

To me, it looks like this document was the precursor to the big honking downloadable Yahoo! Store Building Guide, but the guide is current enough to include the new Paypal info, so maybe it's new...

• Yahoo recommends doing a little keyword research on the competition using the Yahoo search engine to see what products they sell and examine their business model and promotional strategy.
• The guide also recommends sketching out a site map before you start building your store (I never do this but creating a site map is a pretty good idea).
• Next, it suggests that you select a store building tool: either the Store Editor (yes!)  or Store Tags (boo! hiss!)
• Finally, Yahoo recommends that you gather product information like brochures and such from manufacturers and distributors.

Yahoo recommends that your store looks legit so that your merchant bank providers will approve your After looking at your web site. That sounds like a pretty good idea. Don't apply for a merchant account until your published Yahoo! Store looks good.

Honestly, it's kind of hard to cover everything you need to do in 382 pages (much less 11), but this PDF is a great list of resources with clickable links to Yahoo! Store help files and other downloadable resources.

New merchants or prospective Yahoo! Store owners should download this file, print out a copy to make reading that much easier, and use the PDF as a source of links to the best of Paul's most excellent help files. Howdy, Paul! -- r