solutions to cherish

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Shopping carts that handle the cart design and the back-end

getshopped.com
fastcommerce.com

WP Plugin
http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/ (can we use this with 1shoppingcart? - who knows. . .)

Below are some tips that will help you improve your ranking with the major search engines:

1. Title lines – Make sure that your Title Line, Meta Tag Description and Meta Tag Keywords (These are embedded into the HTML script of your website) have the main keywords that you want people to search for. We can help you with this.

2. Home Page Keywords – Prominently list the main keywords on your home page starting at the top left-hand side of the page in a text format. The search engines look for these keywords starting at the top left hand side and move down line by line, reading from left to right. Words that are part of an image will not be recognized.

3. Keyword Frequency – A search engine will also look at how often a keyword is listed on your page. The keyword needs to appear naturally in the text. You can’t just put a keyword 20 times, right after each other. The search engine eliminates those.

4. Links – Find other websites, that you would consider to be a support to your website and not a competitor, to link to your site. The more popular sites that link to you, the greater the ranking you’ll receive to your website.

i have just recently discovered wordle (saw a link on a friend’s blog a few days ago and have been playing with it ever since). it’s so fascinating to me how the word cloud can either emphasize or change the message of whatever text you cut and paste into it depending on which words come out larger or smaller or what proximity they are to each other. it’s actually a great tool for inspiration too–plugging in a poem and wordling it to get a different view and deeper sense of the language that composes it.

This sample is from somethingtocherish.com

Try it out at : wordle.net

From Quick Online Tips

This is a collection of the best Youtube tools, hacks, mashups and top ways to download Youtube videos. YouTube is the most popular site to share your favorite videos. Recently YouTube was acquired by Google for a few billion dollars. Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience.

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As seen on Daily Opt

Bloggers, Developers, SEM’s,

I wanted to inform you of a new RSS feed tool that Google has launched to help website owners and developers import RSS feeds on their websites. This tools is fun and easy to use and the best part is that Google “once again” makes development easy for the common user to import dynamic content immediately within a web page.

This custom RSS feeder will import content from other blogs of interest straight into your site. The feed is derived from XML data then generated through Javascript. All you need to do is install a simple line of javascript code to make the gadget work. You can also customize this RSS feed to match your site by text color, padding, link design, and borders of your choice and colors.

Well, this is certainly exciting, but there is a downside to using this tool. For all SEM’s and SEO experts when you import this tool into your site your ability for Google to crawl new content, links, and data is non-existent. The feeds are generated by a javascript code that is not converted to HTML code once the page loads. Therefore, the Gadget for SEO purposes and link building is strickly irrelevant.

All in all if you do want to import your favorite blog entries onto your site easily then I would suggest using this tool. Most of all for the fun of it…”

Here is the link to the Google Gadget - Custom RSS Tool

On a MAC: If you are using the Safari Web browser, choose “Empty Cache…” from the Safari menu.

If you are shopping around for a new shopping cart, I encourage you to take a serious look at E-Junkie.

I love the fact that you can use it with your existing website and it implements creative solutions to keep buyers focused thereby decreasing shopping cart abandonment.

I also like that you can sell actual product AND digital downloads in the same cart and it takes care of everything in the back end with the utmost professionalism. I have personally tested over 20 shopping carts, and I really like this one the best - especially since their services start at only $5/month and they have a free trial.

	Easy to use, centrally managed service
	Digital storage & delivery for files & codes
	Supports multiple payment processors
	Copy-paste Buy Now and Shopping Cart buttons
	Supports variants for tangible products
	Shipping and packaging calculator
	Sales tax and VAT calculator
	Packaged products
	Inventory management
	Product promotion
	Discount codes
	Affiliate management
	Autoresponder, updates & newsletters
	Sales tracking, built in support for Google Analytics
	Customization
	Download link renewals
	Easy integration with 3rd party and custom services
	Logs & e-mail notifications
	Globalized
	Extras

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http://www.statbrain.com/

With Statbrain.com you can find out how many visits any site has.

Statbrain uses different resources on the web combined with mathematical and statistical methods to estimate how many visits a website has. Please enter the URL of the website that you would like to check.