test

OT: Google link?



> If ALL the links are like this /page/IP/PROD/HCR004 it's okay?

yes

>But if
> there are links that are not they need to be standardized?

they should all be the same style

>I have a client
> that asked to use static "doorway" pages - what about those?
>
> Leslie

nope, just the sfl

Jason

>
> >> I don't know. here is an example- is that an SFL link?
> >>
> >>
<A HREF ="http://www.israeliproducts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=IP/PROD/HCR004">http://www.israeliproducts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=IP/PROD/HCR004</A>
> >
> > A bad sfl link, yes. should be israeliproducts.com/page/IP/PROD/HCR004
> >
> >> I have SFL set to "short link". I didn't see an answer to Lori yet-- if
> >> having both SFL and non-SFL is a problem... is this even an issue?
> >
> > Yes. You want one or the other.
> >
> >>I can't
> >> see why SFL and storemap- bought together- wouldn't be made to work
> >> together..?
> >>
> >> Linda Katz
> >> www.israeliproducts.com
> >
> > ?? Huh? They would and do work together.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >> >> Jason says it's OK to "keep the store map pages but change the
> >> links".
> > If
> >> > I
> >> >> have SFL- do I need to change any links? If so -- how?
> >> >
> >> > depends. Are the links on the sitemap pages SFL links? As I said
> > before,
> >> > download them and search and replace.
> >> >
> >> > Jason
> >>
>
>
>

Google Link/CBS Storemap



In trying to follow this scary death of SEK thread- I'm stuck with a couple
of questions:

I have CBS Storemap and had a Static Category mirror which I hadn't been
using. If I want to delete it now- is all I do remove the 0000001 Category
folder? I also don''t have a clear understanding of what was done when I
upgraded years ago from 4.13 to 4.16 compiled- and I still have the dormant
4.13 files, including the static catalog, sitting there. Not smart I'm sure-
but in the interest of not breaking anything that works... will those
dormant files be any danger to Google's bot if nothing on the store links to
them anymore?

Jason says it's OK to "keep the store map pages but change the links". If I
have SFL- do I need to change any links? If so -- how?

Seems like there's no such thing as a long term investment in technology
anymore...
THANKS for keeping us current, guys.

Linda Katz
www.israeliproducts.com

OT: Google link?



> Which leads me back to my original question several posts ago; will
> disallowing robots from spidering /miva/ or /merchant2/ directorys
> (however the host has it set up) block the spiders from indexing SFL too?
>
> Julie

No, it shouldn't. .htaccess rewrites are different than redirects. I asked
a host to confirm this.

Jason





>
> Bruce Golub - Phosphormedia.com wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
>
> >>
> >>So this renders Merchant Optimizer worthless???? And dump
> >>static "doorway"
> >>pages? Use just what Miva Merchant generates? Only have
> >>static informational pages? What a week to head to NYC -
> >>guess I should be a the conference that is going on next to
> >>the Streaming Media - Google is one of teh sponsors
> >>there....didn't see FindWhat listed though.
> >>
> >>Leslie <-- is ready to freakin scream.
> >
> >
> > First of all, absolutly not, second of all, absolutely not<G>.
> >
> > Also, I think some are confusing "mirror" sites with "mirror" pages. I'm
not
> > certain, but pretty sure that Google, or any search engine for that
matter,
> > does not penelize for duplicate "pages" under the same domain...that
would
> > just be silly. What they are penalizing are duplicate pages, under
different
> > domains. For example, www.ThisIsTheRealSite.com/rankme.html being
exactly
> > the same as www.ThisIsAnotherSite.com/rankthis.html.
> >
> > The only real reason to block /Merchant2 links when using Optimizer is
to
> > prevent SE spiders from hammering your store. When crawling a site, they
can
> > be generating anywhere from 10 to 100 requests per second. (I suspect a
lot
> > of those "all of a sudden my site is slow" posts are simply SE spider
> > visits.)
> >
> > Sorry if I fell into the same rabbit hole as others last night, it was
late
> > and a long day.
> >
> > -Bruce Golub
> > PHOSPHOR Media
> > ......................................
> > Featuring: StoreMan - A smarter way to manage Miva Merchant(tm) Store
> > Content.
> > Download a hassle-free demo today
> > <A HREF ="http://www.phosphormedia.com/go.mv?ID=listsm">http://www.phosphormedia.com/go.mv?ID=listsm</A>
> > ......................................
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

RE: Tim's Lame Email Service



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Is there a module or an easy way to create meta tags for products? Can =
they be uploaded in a flat file to merchant?

I have thousands of products and am overpowered by how much time it will =
take to input all the information into merchant on a product by product =
basis.

Thanks.

Jen Walker
Creative Crafts and Stickers
www.creativecraftsandstickers.com

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OT: Google link?



Dan,

You could do this with VC cat templates if you are using price and
cost to define the sale.

Gordon


On May 17, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Dan Coop ((Wellcoolstuff.com)) wrote:

> Anyone know a good module which you can insert a user definable "on
> sale" icon in the product details in category view
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan

OT: how best to create html newsletters?



Scot's Mailing List
<A HREF ="http://www.jmhonline.net/miva-modules/Scot's+Mailing+List">http://www.jmhonline.net/miva-modules/Scot's+Mailing+List</A>

Jason


> I'm sure everyone here received (non-spam) html newsletters and at least a
few
> of you create them as well. What do you use? I've looked at using Outlook
> (w/MS Word as the editor) or using Incredimail or similar for creating
> newsletters to send to subscribers, but they don't seem well suited for
the
> task.
>
> Also, how do you send them? I know many hosts have no-mass-email policies,
as
> does my ISP. Gotta be an "official" way to do it.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>

OT: Google link?



Besides building the pages with Photoshop/Dreamweaver (with the full
path for all images and sticking that on our server) we use the html
email service from bravenet.com

They give us a little bit of code to paste on our site that people
can opt-in to the newsletter. We also have a link on our email
newsletter that allows people to opt-out and has all of the legal
verbiage at the bottom of the email.

I like it because it automates the process of people signing up and
getting out of the email list, Bravenet has a a browser based
interface for managing the list and HTML email newsletter format.
They also have a "Wizard" for building an HTML email if you don't
know HTML.

It's not hooked into our Miva database, but we tell people if they
want to sign up for the newsletter to follow a link to do so. Might
be more slick if we could add a simple button at checkout for it and
have the email field in their order form get added to the list...

But overall our HTML newsletters look great and they have all of the
legal opt-out info at the bottom.
You can see the sign up box on www.sequoiarecords.com lower left of
the screen.

Kevin

On May 17, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Jim Cockerham wrote:

> I use Subscribe 2 for managing the list and sending the emails and
> IBM Websphere (HTML) editor to create them. Subscribe2 runs on your
> Miva Merchant Server not your email server, normally. My host
> allows bulk emails to be sent this way but not using the email
> servers.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Missey"
> <[email protected]>
> To: "'Tom'" <[email protected]>; "'Merchant-Users'" <merchant-
> [email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:12 PM
> Subject: RE: [mru] OT: how best to create html newsletters?
>
>
>
>> I use a combination of Photoshop (create graphic content, create
>> slices,
>> edit slice information, save as HTML & Images) and GoLive (edit
>> links, trim
>> up Photoshop HTML, input text) to create our Newsletters. Then I
>> turn the
>> HTML over to my supervisor who actually does the "blasting" of the
>> newsletter to our customers. He does a lot of DB "massaging"
>> before sending
>> it out, as our newsletters are a bit more tailored than most, I
>> think.
>> Unfortunately, I don't know what program he uses to actually send the
>> things. If you'd like, I can find out later and let you know.
>>
>> -Rich
>>
>>
>> | -----Original Message-----
>> | From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-merchant-
>> | [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom
>> | Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 7:19 PM
>> | To: Merchant-Users
>> | Subject: [mru] OT: how best to create html newsletters?
>> |
>> | I'm sure everyone here received (non-spam) html newsletters and
>> at least
>> | a few
>> | of you create them as well. What do you use? I've looked at
>> using Outlook
>> | (w/MS Word as the editor) or using Incredimail or similar for
>> creating
>> | newsletters to send to subscribers, but they don't seem well
>> suited for
>> | the
>> | task.
>> |
>> | Also, how do you send them? I know many hosts have no-mass-email
>> | policies, as
>> | does my ISP. Gotta be an "official" way to do it.
>> |
>> | Thanks,
>> | Tom
>> |
>> |

OT: Google link?



I use Subscribe 2 for managing the list and sending the emails and IBM
Websphere (HTML) editor to create them. Subscribe2 runs on your Miva
Merchant Server not your email server, normally. My host allows bulk emails
to be sent this way but not using the email servers.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Missey" <[email protected]>
To: "'Tom'" <[email protected]>; "'Merchant-Users'"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:12 PM
Subject: RE: [mru] OT: how best to create html newsletters?


>I use a combination of Photoshop (create graphic content, create slices,
> edit slice information, save as HTML & Images) and GoLive (edit links,
> trim
> up Photoshop HTML, input text) to create our Newsletters. Then I turn the
> HTML over to my supervisor who actually does the "blasting" of the
> newsletter to our customers. He does a lot of DB "massaging" before
> sending
> it out, as our newsletters are a bit more tailored than most, I think.
> Unfortunately, I don't know what program he uses to actually send the
> things. If you'd like, I can find out later and let you know.
>
> -Rich
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-merchant-
> | [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom
> | Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 7:19 PM
> | To: Merchant-Users
> | Subject: [mru] OT: how best to create html newsletters?
> |
> | I'm sure everyone here received (non-spam) html newsletters and at least
> | a few
> | of you create them as well. What do you use? I've looked at using
> Outlook
> | (w/MS Word as the editor) or using Incredimail or similar for creating
> | newsletters to send to subscribers, but they don't seem well suited for
> | the
> | task.
> |
> | Also, how do you send them? I know many hosts have no-mass-email
> | policies, as
> | does my ISP. Gotta be an "official" way to do it.
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Tom
> |
> |

RE: Tim's Lame Email Service



I use dreamweaver to create the newsletter -- and have Subscribe2 -- works
well for me.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Anne Cavicchi
Annie's
106 - 402 Baker ST
Nelson, BC V1L4H8
250-354-2000
www.maternitycorner.com


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Tom
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 5:19 PM
To: Merchant-Users
Subject: [mru] OT: how best to create html newsletters?


I'm sure everyone here received (non-spam) html newsletters and at least a
few
of you create them as well. What do you use? I've looked at using Outlook
(w/MS Word as the editor) or using Incredimail or similar for creating
newsletters to send to subscribers, but they don't seem well suited for the
task.

Also, how do you send them? I know many hosts have no-mass-email policies,
as
does my ISP. Gotta be an "official" way to do it.

Thanks,
Tom

OT: how best to create html newsletters?



I'm sure everyone here received (non-spam) html newsletters and at least a few
of you create them as well. What do you use? I've looked at using Outlook
(w/MS Word as the editor) or using Incredimail or similar for creating
newsletters to send to subscribers, but they don't seem well suited for the
task.

Also, how do you send them? I know many hosts have no-mass-email policies, as
does my ISP. Gotta be an "official" way to do it.

Thanks,
Tom

customizing search box



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Hello,

I have a question. I created my own search box in our miva store and
duplicated the original form elements:

* action="<priv>/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?"
* added the hidden <input name="Store_Code" value="<priv>"
type="hidden">

Whenever i do a search , it just goes to the homepage as if it's not
seeing a particular variable in the POST to tell it this is a search. Am
i missing something here?


Any help is much appreciated.

- Mike D

--


......................................
Mike Dunlop
Webmaster - AWN, Inc.
[ e ] [email protected]
[ p ] 323.606.4237

AWN.com | AIDB.com | VFXWorld.com


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ssl, bad images and no navigation bar



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Anyone know a good module which you can insert a user definable "on =
sale" icon in the product details in category view

Thanks

Dan
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ssl, bad images and no navigation bar



If you DON'T use Merchant Optimizer- where exactly should this robots.txt
file be placed? Just loose in the 4.16 (or whatever) folder?

What if you don't want people googling to your store map and want them to
hit the dymamic pages? The store map is ugly and not easily configurable--
won't this robots solution make that impossible? (Sorry- I have a limited
understanding of the programming.)

What about Leslie's question about static doorway pages?

We use them too and it will be a big job to match them all to look like SFL
links. If I understood yesterday's posts correctly, it DOES matter that they
all are in the same format. I totally don't understand why though- as the
CBS storemap is a bunch of links back to dynamic pages and is not a
mirror...???

Linda Katz
www.israeliproducts.com

Puerto Rico Shipping Weirdness



We got an order this morning from someone in Puerto Rico, and his order
shows $0.00 for shipping. I tried out a couple test carts, and found
that if I select "order without an account" and put his address & postal
code with Puerto Rico selected under country it puts $0.00 for shipping
and states that it can't find a shipping option for my address and I'll
be contacted about shipping costs. If I put his address with United
States as the country, it offers up shipping options.

Is this expected behavior? IIRC, Puerto Rico is a U.S. Territory
(sorry--self-governing commonweath per
http://welcome.topuertorico.org/government.shtml), and so it shouldn't
show up under countries anyway. Could be wrong about that, though.

I'm running Miva Merchant v4.22 with Miva Engine v4.1400, and no Open UI
or other mods other than standard USPS & UPS shipping.

Any tips?

Thanks!
-Evan
**

--


Evan Sass
Webmaster, Green Ronin Publishing
<A HREF ="http://www.greenronin.com/">http://www.greenronin.com/</A>
<A HREF ="http://www.mutantsandmasterminds.com/">http://www.mutantsandmasterminds.com/</A>
http://bluerose.greenronin.com/

Re: test



Chuck, I think this is correct: %VAR(s.dyn_time_t|DATE)%

Look at the docs for the var token.
<A HREF ="http://www.openui.org/docs/html/OPEN_TOKENS/index.html">http://www.openui.org/docs/html/OPEN_TOKENS/index.html</A>

Open the branch for OpenTokens: Token Types | OpenTokens: %VAR()% |
OpenTokens: Token Formatting.

You will see the list of formatting options including the date and time
formats.

Ray Yates
<A HREF ="http://www.flyinghands.com">http://www.flyinghands.com</A>


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Lasker -
DoublePlus
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mru] date variable/token?

I have an OpenUI SuperMod template form. I want to add the date the form was
submitted to a text file where the form info is being saved. Is there an
OpenToken or Miva variable that is the date I can stick in there? I couldn't
find one in any docs or the OUI forums.

Thanks!

Chuck Lasker
DoublePlus New Media Marketing
[email protected]