Share Blog Posts & Improve SEO with Pretty Link Pro

Last week we shared a few ways you can add free social media sharing buttons to your blog.

We were inspired by the variety of sharing buttons on Hibiscus Sunglasses’ blog.  But actually, instead of using free sharing button services, Hibiscus’ SEO consultant Alex Kah of Question-Defense.com uses Pretty Link Pro.  Even though it’s a paid WordPress plugin ($37 for one site/$97 for multiple sites), Kah says it’s “well worth it” for its "SEO-friendly functions."  And we all know search engine optimization can make or break a web store.   

Use Zemanta to Enhance and Market Your Blog

Image via CrunchBase

Thanks to one of our readers for recommending Zemanta in a recent comment.  We'd never checked it out in earnest before, and after "Zemifying" this post, we've discovered that it's a pretty cool tool.

 

Zemanta analyzes blogs and other user-generated content to suggest tags, links, images, and related articles.  The suggestions come up as you type, which saves you time inputting the tags and links yourself.  You choose which recommendations you want to accept.  And if you want to enhance your blog with an image (like the one we chose to the right), all you have to do is drag and drop.  

Keeping Your Google Base Account Active: New Rules from Google

Guest blogger Matt Montgomery joins us this week from ProStores eCommerce certified designer One Take Media:

I recently got an email from Google stating that all users of Google Base / Product Upload need to verify and claim their URL to ensure that they are the only ones with authorization to upload products.  In five weeks it will be required or else you will be prevented from uploading products.

Source: http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=176793

ProStores merchants, hopefully all of you are using this excellent free service.  If you are, here are the steps you need to take.  If you aren’t using Base and don’t want to set it up yourself, feel free to contact One Take Media.  We do the setups quickly and for only $50, and it would include all the steps below as well.