First, an important note for all merchants: Upon your first visit to Checkout & Registration Manager following this release, your Publish Order Settings link in Store Manager will become active. If you have not made changes in Checkout & Registration Manager, you do not need to publish your order settings [...]

On behalf of the entire Yahoo! Small Business team, thank you to all of our Yahoo! Small Business customers for allowing us the opportunity to help bring your dreams to life. We're looking forward to a great year ahead [...]

We're currently hard at work on our first several feature releases of the year, and I look forward to providing more details about these in the weeks to come. In the meantime, now is a great time to have a look back at the 2011 holiday shopping season and to use your experiences to help you prepare for your store's next big holiday rush (in some cases, this will be Valentine's Day). It's also a good time to do any post-holiday housekeeping that you haven't yet done [...]

Google continues to make updates that can impact search results and online retailers. If you're still on the path to recovery from the Panda update, or if you're concerned about how to take steps that may lessen the impact of future updates to your store, you'll want to watch this webinar. During the webinar, Exclusive Concepts explores efforts that have helped online stores improve [...]

Not in Las Vegas? You can listen online [...]

In the Advisor article about veterans who have become business owners, Palmisciano shares his thoughts on why military experience can be great training for creating a business, and discusses unique funding opportunities available to veterans looking to start or grow their business. Read the Yahoo! Small Business Advisor article.

Over at Profit-Minded, the Yahoo! Small Business Advisor blog, Palmisciano reveals his biggest challenge during his first year of business, along with valuable advice that all small business [...]

Baker's Edge carries brownie pans that add extra edges to every brownie, and lasagna pans designed for better cooking and serving. The Baker's Edge pans were chosen as one of Oprah's Favorite Things in 2010. Drawing on his experience starting and developing a business, Griffin offers advice to aspiring business owners about being dedicated and consistent, and about [...]]]> http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2011/11/yahoo-store-merchant-featured-on-yahoo-small-business-advisor/feed/ 0 http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2011/10/free-holiday-email-marketing-webinar-from-exclusive-concepts/ http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2011/10/free-holiday-email-marketing-webinar-from-exclusive-concepts/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:52:15 +0000 Jennifer Farwell http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/?p=1654 On Wednesday, November 2 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT, join Yahoo! Merchant Solutions developer partner Exclusive Concepts for their free webinar, "Email Marketing: How You Can Increase Revenue this Holiday Season and Beyond."

Holiday ecommerce spending is expected to increase, yet many retailers won't capitalize on the increase of organic additions to their database. Get tips from Exclusive Concepts about how to utilize email marketing more effectively, to help you increase profitability this holiday season and [...]]]> http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2011/10/free-holiday-email-marketing-webinar-from-exclusive-concepts/feed/ 0 http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2011/10/new-site-search-and-catalog-api-betas/ http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/2011/10/new-site-search-and-catalog-api-betas/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:15:25 +0000 Jennifer Farwell http://www.ystoreblog.com/blog/?p=1640 Earlier today, we released our new Site Search beta and Catalog API beta. The new Site Search beta is available for all Yahoo! Merchant Solutions and Yahoo! Store accounts, and the Catalog API beta is available for Merchant Solutions Standard and Professional accounts. For details about each of these features, please keep reading.

New Site Search (Beta Release)

Our new Site Search beta offers a number of features designed for better merchandising on your search results page and an improved search experience for your customers. When you enable the new Site Search beta for your store, customers can [...]

Page Redirect Manager is designed to assist you with your search engine optimization (SEO) and site management efforts. A 301 redirect (also known as a "permanent redirect") can be used to help retain a site page's existing search engine ranking when the URL of the page changes, in addition to redirecting your site traffic.

For example, you may have a product page on your site that already ranks well in search results, but you've decided to rename the page to incorporate keywords as part of your SEO efforts. Or perhaps the page for a discontinued product ranks highly in search results, and you'd like to direct search engines and site traffic to a page for a similar product you carry. Maybe you have a site hosted outside of Yahoo! with pages that receive significant traffic and rank well with search engines, and you'd like to move that site onto the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform but retain the [...]