Archive for the ‘Tricks’ Category

Tips for Optimizing Product Page Cross-Sell

We’re pleased to see so many merchants taking advantage of the product page cross-sell feature we released last fall. Cross-sell is a great way to give exposure to more products, but merchants should take note that its success depends not only on what is being cross-sold, but how it is presented.
Product page cross-sell gives you [...]

Looking for Links in all the Right Places

Today’s Y!Store blog is another guest column by long-time Yahoo! Store owner and developer Rob Snell of Snell Brothers, still located in sleepy Starkville, Mississippi. Rob blogs about Yahoo! Store, speaks at search conferences about Yahoo! Store, is the author of a not so new book on Yahoo! Store: Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies, [...]

Adding a Little Bling to Your Site

I’ve seen a few merchants ask how to add a favicon to their site. If you don’t know what a favicon is, it’s the small icon that appears for some sites in the address bar of your browser or in the bookmarks or favorites listings.

Figure 1: Favicon appearing in the Address bar

Figure 2: Favicon appearing [...]

Dressing up Your Invoices

Reading through merchant emails lately has allowed me to see some feature requests that I hadn’t heard of before. One request that I saw a few emails for was a means to add a company logo to order invoices or packing slips. Merchants were concerned about the “out of the box” experience (the process of [...]