IGOR SOSHKIN, Founder and CEO - MY SEO SECRETS
MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS
•Full Visitor Analytics Report
•Rotating Main Website Banners
•Automated Currency Conversion with Geo Location
•ROI Calculator Report
•Improved Data Mapper for Universal Products
•Integrated Live Chat with Engagement
•Dropdown Option for Main Search Banner
•Motorsports Data has been Released – Ex: locompt.com
•Multi-Lingual Support
•Australia Launch
What are we working on this month?
•Customer Research Tool Beta v1.0
•Email Marketing with Mailchimp Beta v1.0
•FTP Client to upload your own pages, files, graphics
•Custom Templates for your Website
•Price Spy and Price Control Overhaul
•Back office Performance Improvement
•Website Search Performance Improvement
•Craigslist Marketplace Ad Generator
ENHANCEMENTS
Website
•Improved performance on the side menu for the make model year lookup
•Rich Snippet for Google has been implemented. This will improve higher ranking and better CTR within Google Search
•Removed social bar from various displays to improve readability
•Renamed “Select Car Make” to “Select Make” on the website
•You can now have Multi Currency on the Website
•Created our own Side Social Bar to perform faster
•You can enable or disable the shipping calculator from the shopping cart
•Created Live Currency Conversion based on GEO location
•You can now set what your default currency will be for your country
•Created a sub category for the side menu in the search results
•Australia Post Integrated
Website – Search Results
•If product has more than 6 options and has different images for each one they will all show up in the search results
•Improved search results caching for vehicles
•Implemented SUB MODEL search apart of the vehicle products
•Implemented SUB MODEL search for wheels and tires
Website – User Interface
•Created an option to have dropdowns instead of text links on the main banner
New Native SCE Apps
•SEO Content Optimizer
•Link Finder
•LSI Keyword Optimizer
•Multi Channel Categories – this allows you to map your store categories to Google Shopping and Amazon
•Full Visitor Analytics Report
•ROI Calculator Report
Third Party Apps
•Implemented Clickdesk Chat
•Implemented Subuno for Fraud Protection (Tutorial coming soon)
Themes
•You can disable cache when you have a subdomain
General Settings
•Converted all phones numbers to allow you to select a country
Email - IMAP
•IMAP Performance Improved
Data Mapper
•Improved Case Sensitiveness when parsing Descriptions, Bullet Points, Warning Notes, Part Number and Anchor Text
•Missing product type will now be highlighted
•Hacking attempts in data mapper will not block your IP
•If you double click on the cell with description, bullets or additional description an HTML editor will come up
•Revamped the user interface for Find Images
•You can now highlight multiple universal products and find images for them
•If you do not have the sub model validated against ACES it will not proceed
•FIXED: Reorder supplier was not saving in data mapper
•FIXED: workflow was not saving in data mapper
•Bullets points can be imported using enter keys
•When importing products any characters that are not digits, letters or spaces will be removed from anchor text
Reports
•Enhanced the harddrive report to show more details on what takes up storage
Google Shopping
•Moved Options into Search Tags when submitting to Google Shopping to avoid cutting off text if placed in the Title
•Created a new module to map your store categories with multi channel marketing categories like Google Shopping and Amazon
Database Conversion
•Converted Database Tables to allow international languages
Order Assignment
•Improved Performance on order Assignment
Product Setup
•Updated 2012 ACES and Added Motorsports Data
LIST OF BUGS THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED AND ARE NOW OPERATIONAL
Website Quote
•Fixed problem with Quote where Regardless if you check Call Me or Email Me on the quote request form, the email sent to the web site says. Call Me
Products
•Fixed issue where removal of product it would not remove from the data sharing screen
Website – Search Results
•Fixed issue with website search filters not working when a sub category was selected
Backoffice
•Fixed the issue when you open a module from the side menu as a popup it gave you an error
Product Setup
•Fixed issue with shipping dimensions for height was not saving the product setup
•Fixed issue with Quick Edit deleting search filters
•Fixed bugs that caused issues with creating product bundles
Articles
•FIXED: Spinning issue in articles
Release Notes – (August 1, 2011 Release)
Major Highlights in V 2.63 Release
- 20+ new ways the search finds relevant results
- Social Media Marketing App
- Website Social Features Google +1, Facebook
- Revamped Login Page with Guest Checkout
- Added two more (very expensive) servers to our cloud cluster
- Affiliate/Effiliate Marketing Features (watch tutorials)
- Added “Search for Links” App in Link Exchange section (helps you find link partners)
- Added Woopra for better Live Analytics compared to Google Analytics (free to signup)
- Optimized APS for better ranking, and you can now add Vehicle Search to Articles
- Created the ability to export product data via XML – FTP for third parties
- Plus 6 more pages of enhancements…
What are we working on this month?
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Website
- You can now hide header button from homepage only.
- You can align buttons to start from left to right instead of right to left
- Redirect Popup has a 5 second delay on Product Page - Fixed
- Product page - By mouse over on the thumbnails they will automatically be selected.
- The functionality of the header image to be clickable was improved. The Header image was enabled to be clickable back to the homepage for all websites
- The login and registration pages on all stores were completely revamped
- Fixed issues with forgot password taking too long to reset
- You can now mouseover on the small thumbnails and the images will show up enlarged without clicking if the Item has a minimum quantity then it will default to that quantity automatically.
- We created a Guest checkout and enabled it for everyone (you can disable it from settings)
- Added Open Ticket link to WEBSITE > MY ACCOUNT > DASHBOARD
- If minimum quantity is set, you won’t be allowed to change it in the cart
- If you delete an article, it will be permanently deleted with 410 header
- If you choose a Tire Bundle with Wheels, any tires that have a quote should be excluded from the tire bundle list - Fixed
- Product Page – Select an option to see the exact price was changed to Select an option to see price
- Turned on the feature for Google Images to spider images. Enhanced a script to disable the image during preview to get you more visitors to your website.
- If you have a coupon applied; The sub total price will be crossed out next to the item in the shopping cart if discount was applied to product
- If you have an active special with a coupon, it will automatically be applied to your customer in the cart
- Changed “ANY BRAND” to read “Click Here for All Brands”
- If you have Wheel and Tire selected the pricing will show more clearer
- If you have minimum applied on the product, and you click on add to cart in application list, the minimum will be added to the cart
- You now disable the login feature on the website
- You can now control which links will show up in the footer
- Added special Facebook tags for the Like button
- If a tire is available in wheel and tire bundle, the first tire will be selected
- You can now have a side menu for searching tire sizes
- If you estimated shipping and change qty, the estimate will reset
Website – Search Results
- If a product in search results has more then 5 possible variations and your in vertical view it will show product with no options selected – Fixed
- When the search is triggered, you need to scroll to the top portion of the page to start where the filters starts
- If you click change vehicle from search it will take you to the homepage main banner vehicle search – Fixed
- 35 Items per page will be default
- If you search for specific tire size, it will display all the part numbers in the results
- If you click on a specific tire size in search results, that specific one will be pre-selected on the product page
- Improved the relevancy of correct tires showing up in the search results
- Fixed issues where certain keywords that would trigger the same product to show up twice
- Active Featured item / Active Sale item are triggered inside the search and get higher relevancy
- If item is on sale or featured it will have tags on the image
- Products that have 4 months of good sales record will get higher relevancy
- High CTR products will get higher relevancy
- Mouseover on image will flip through all images that are available for that product
- If a specific item exists when you search for a specific vehicle or part #, the specific image will show up
- Improved staggered fitment lookup
- Fixed Sort by Price to go against Web Price not MSRP
- Enhanced the indexing of Search Results
- If a vehicle matches a keyword you entered (Ex: Dodge neon neon kit) you should delete the dodge neon out of the keyword and clarify the result
- Filters will show up from left to right dynamically depending on the product on the page your are viewing. Once you select a main category, a sub category will be offered
- Only one diameter can be active in filters for wheels or tires
- Fixed issue with the price range filter
- New Filter for Tires: TIRE: Load Range, TIRE: Speed Rating
- Horizantal Search view now shows warning notes
Email Server - IMAP
- Completed IMAP server for incoming email (by end of the month SMTP will be out of production)
Keyword Rank Monitor
- Add multiple third party websites to track competition or your other websites
- Export all results via CSV
Dashboard
- Changed to 2 weeks
- Improved speed of the back office dashboard.
Product Setup Module
- Increased timeout during duplicating of products to avoid session timeout
- In price update we added cost > dollar above jobber and web price > dollar above jobber
Customer Module
- Revamped the User Interface for the Customer Module
Server Resources
- Installed a new dual Hexa-core xenon server to speed up website indexing and services
- Installed a Dell MD 3620f to speed up data sharing
Effiliate Marketing
- New module in product setup promoting you to participate in affiliate marketing with eBay and Amazon
- For eBay you can choose seller, category variables, If you have Effiliate enabled and Add to Cart enabled an image will show up as Compare Us to eBay or Amazon, If you have Effiliate enabled and Add to Cart or Quote disabled an image will show up as Inventory Moved to eBay or Amazon
- You can now define a custom URL to be triggered when you press ADD TO CART
Article Marketing
- Improved APS articles to rank higher
- You can now turn on Vehicle Search inside the articles (attach products)
- You now have a select all / deselect all on the products
Data Mapper
- Added new fields to allow shipping type for USPS/Fedex/UPS
Settings
- New warning message appears when saving that you accept cash
- You can now allow to hide product dimensions from product page
General
- Improved the screen that is used to report bugs - Help > Reports Error
- Changed meta tag for the spider to make less visits to the website
Reports
- New Report - Unpaid Balances - will track to see if you have any authorizations or shipped orders that were not settled
- Bandwidth Report - Separated Search Engine from Unique Visitors
- Statistics - Fixed the chart to avoid looking one month ahead and made two new charts one for “amount” and one for “orders”
- New Report - NET Balance shows all accounts that have past due net balance and amount
Supplier
- When you press save on supplier. A message saying “Successfully Saved” will now appear. When rejecting products from active, they will be prompted to be deleted from the store.
Themes
o Improved the functionality of saving themes
o Changed default font on the main banner
o Add new class for social bar, affiliate links and product page (If you have a custom theme, review your website to make sure it looks good)
Support Tickets
- Moved the feature “if you want a service board public or not” from website setting to support desk setting
- In settings there is an option that any new ticket that gets submitted to support desk an email will be sent to: Default: primary
Marketplace
- We removed CC Accepted which is no longer valid in Turbolister
- Enhanced the export of XML of your data to a third party website
- Integrated the automation of exporting your CSV product data via FTP to your dealers
- Optimized Google Shopping to perform faster
Link Exchanges
- Added a new button “Search for Links” which will help you find link partners on Google
Quote
- Quote request will include part # and URL to the product
Social Media Marketing
- New module to export your social media contacts and import then into Facebook, Google, Twitter - tutorials coming soon
New Third Party App
· Woopra.com - Better than Google Analytics
LIST OF BUGS THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED AND ARE NOW OPERATIONAL
Settings
- Fixed issues with announcements coming up after it was read
Dashboard
- Abandon orders stopped working - fixed
Employee
- If employee is admin and you take away screen from the admin it removes it while it shouldn’t because admin has access to all screens - FIXED
Website
- Fixed URL Redirect Script
- When you press show all wheel and wheel specification duplicates and doubles – Fixed
- Application Highlight stopped working - fixed
- If you choose a car and the wheel doesn’t fit, the wheel it searched for would not fit either – fixed
- Fixed an issue with Paypal looping during step 2 of checkout on certain stores
- In search results When you click on the title or image the same results will show up as when you click on details - Fixed
- If you filter by 16” diameter tire you still have 15” showing up at the end – fixed
Product Setup Module
- Fixed ACES export for Amazon
- Fixed Export Binary Import Binary the shipping type would not save
Customer
- Subscription were not billing the setup fee
Data Sharing
- Vehicles restrictions still disables all wheels regardless if there is one that will work - Fixed
Release Notes – (February 27, 2011 Release)
Major Highlights in V 2.01 Release
- SEO Keyword Monitor Module
- Optimized the Search Performance by 200%
- Released Support Tickets into Alpha Stage
Improvements
Third Party Plugins
- Integrated Uservoice for Feedback (Freemium service)
- Integrated Hittail for search hits reports (Freemium service)
- VoIP Click to Call
Website
- Homepage – You can hide the news feed and about us feed
- Homepage - You can add up to 8 buttons
- Homepage - You can rename the main banner buttons
- Homepage – Allow to pre-default one of the main banner menus to be open on first visit
- Category Page – Searching by vehicle for wheels, part # will not show up
- Category Page – Searching a specific part# will display the specific product even if it has options
- Category Page – Searching for a specific tire size will lead you to the exact part number on the product page
- Category Page – Same part # will not show duplicates if multiple sub models are available
- Category Page – Inputted the title tag of whatever you search for
- Category Page – Optimized the search performance by 200%
- Product Page – If the product is not a vehicle instead of part # it will say item #
- Product Page – Upsell products show up on the product page and driven from the back office
- Shopping Cart – Added Ajax waiting icon when you press checkout
- Contact Us – Enhanced the spam filters to avoid spam in your email box
- Articles – Tweaked APS articles to have unique content
Suppliers
- Added USPS to the active supplier list
Support Tickets
- Support Tickets are in alpha stage, this means we are actively working on it and testing it. If you would like to actively start using support tickets and report problems, please let us know.
Reports
- Subscription - Right click to shortcut to customer account
- Subscription - Added a new filter active – free
Customer
- Cancelling subscription will prompt you if you want to send an email or not
- If subscription item do not match interval, subscription can’t be activated
- Customer import has been redesigned to be more friendlier
- You can lock down a credit card # where it can’t be charged without admin approval call it “Approve before Charging”
- In general setting you can set manual CC charge
- The order will settle successfully against NET credit even though he will not have a credit line or net limit
- The credit card will be saved on his account if that happens
- If there is an order that is settled against a net use the color BLUE for the legend
- Renamed the field Invoiced to Invoiced to Supplier
- Process order process credit card screen was redesigned
- You can only un-process an order on a completed shipment if you are an admin
General Setting
- Error Reporting has been enhanced
- You can now report errors through the back office (Help > Report)
- You can now save tutorials on your local hard drive
- Click to Call was enabled for everyone
- When adding RSS feed it will validate if it is successful
- If internet connection is lost, a more friendlier message will display
- Primary mailbox can’t be deleted
- Optional tutorials will not show up if none exist
- Reorganized the setting screen
Data Mapper
- Added a new tool called Splitter to Split excel files into multiple files
- Enhanced the tool called Group Year to Group single years into year ranges
- Redesigned the top menu to be more friendlier
- You can now import and export rules
Data Sharing
- If product is auto sync and you manually try to overwrite the prices it will prompt you to set it to manual
- Made a new button called “Reload Applications Only” and “Reload Product and Applications”. If you need to resync the applications without touching the content this will address it.
Themes
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- Add a ton of themes to address the design for www.lafragranciastore.com and www.remusexhaustshop.com
- Please note if you have a custom theme check your homepage and category page to make sure nothing needs to be changed
- Added new classes for Quickview
Product Setup Module
- Fixed data sharing year overlaps causing errors on edit
- Extended the amount of characters for the title
- Advanced search part # and description was merged into one
- Advanced search was improved
- Multiple drag n drop works
- Moved related product tab into the bottom menu
- Added an option none to vehicle mapping on vehicle search rule
- Renamed Trash to Recycle Bin
- Bulk update for mapping tire bundles to wheels
Packing List
- Optimized Packing List
- Optimized Shipsout Screen
- Completed the automation of generating UPS labels through Shipsout
Marketplace
- TheFind Submission has been fixed
- Bing Submission has been fixed
- Resynced the new eBay database
- Imported the complete eBay vehicle database to allow mapping between ACES and eBay
- Enhanced eBay marketplace to prefill the vehicle compatibility for wheels
- Enhanced a way for you to choose how many set exists within a qty when listing on eBay
- Optimized the eBay output file to be have more search tags when importing to eBay
- Optimized eBay output titles
- Google Shopping instead of listing year range, now it lists individuals year in search tags
LIST OF BUGS THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED AND ARE NOW OPERATIONAL
Customer Module
- Shipsout stopped working after the release – fixed
- Fixed Get a Quote after release
- Fixed some of the credits and debits the way they settle if more than one is settled
- In process credit card, you will now see how much more money needs to be added in order to settle the order
- Phone # must contain at least 3 unique digits in order for it to be valid
- New feature to added to un-process an order
- Refunding from RMA would not show the return as settled - fixed
- Custom order with multiple qty will not increase the shipping
- Fixed negative adjustment bug in Custom order
- Order search payment type will now show the accurate type
- Fixed the 30 day sales report on each customer to include orders on hold
Reports
- Subscription - Fixed sales reports
- Performance – All years gave an error – Fixed
- Fixed excel reports export
Website
- Fixed “]” on brands title
- Phone # will be displayed on Get Quote
- Put item in cart, leave it there, go away from site. Come back to site and put same item in cart and login, adds quantity to item in the cart already but changes price to zero.
- When searching for 31 / 10.5 tires nothing would show up – Fixed
- When adding wheels to shopping cart, tires would show in thumbnail – Fixed
- Fixed issues with creating custom buttons
- Application list showed price on wholesale – Fixed
- Copying and Pasting text from Word will no longer transfer the styles into the back office
Product Setup Module
- Fixed data sharing year overlaps causing errors on edit
Data Mapper
- Binary File Import Fixed
- Bing Images Fixed
- Show Errors Only will have an undo button
- You were not able to properly delete a product once imported into the data mapper - Fixed
Data Audit
- Discontinue all parts did not work - Fixed
