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1 Static Catalog Generator Weiland / Emporium Plus

The StatCat module is both an admin module and a basket interface module. The primary purpose of StatCat is to generate static catalog pages (indexes and sub-pages) directly from your Miva Merchant products and category databases so that search engines will add your pages to their index. Presumably this will allow customers to find your store amongst the millions of web sites on the Internet. As such, the pages generated are basic html pages with links to sub-pages, basket page and individual product pages in your Miva Merchant system. Each page contains your store title, meta description, meta keywords, footers along with the products. Category pages also contain category headers and footers.

Although these are static html pages, they have direct links which allow customers to add the products to their basket which is maintained in your Miva Merchant shopping cart system. If you are using the CIM Inventory Manager or Miva Corp's new Inventory Manager (in Merchant 4.x), it will even check the stock level and return an out of stock message if stock level is depleted

** Caution: If you are using Merchant 4.0 and its Inventory Management system that deducts products from inventory when they are placed in the basket, you should select to NOT use the Add to Basket buttons if you have one-of-a-kind items. The reason for this is that some robots and other indexing software may even follow links which contain the ? and & characters. This could result in the stock level decrementing to zero and out-of-stock emails being sent. The products won't be removed from inventory completely, as they will be re-stocked when you run the Admin:Delete Expired Shopping Baskets. This undesirable situation does not exist in Merchant versions 2.x or 3.x. It is also not a problem in Merchant 4.x if your store does not use the Miva Corp Inventory Management or your product stock levels are not likely to be depleted with one or two passes of the indexing program.

The store owner determines which page the customer will go to when they select to add a product to the basket. They can be taken either to the basket for review or back to the static page they just selected from. Both processes are automatic and do not require Javascript or meta refresh routines. Either click through destination can be used on either of the sort options, store owner choice. In addition to the functionality of this module, it provides an excellent example of how to interface static pages with the Miva Merchant system with return to the correct static page.

Quick links on each sub-page allow the customer to return to the index or go straight to their basket for review and checkout.

Below the sub-pages the store owner can even generate individual product pages. These product pages contain the full sized image and description. If the store uses the Flexible Product Description module and the product record contains a Keyword field, those product specific keywords are added to the store's generic keywords which are already in all of the static pages.

The store owner can decide whether to display the price for each item on the static pages. Since these pages are static and cannot function interactively to determine customer price groups or discounts, the hide price routine has its place. However, if the store has no price groups and discounts are calculated on basket totals or discount coupons, the price listing is useful.

The static pages also have no way to restrict access. So if your store is one which does not allow certain products to be shown to all customers, then this module is not for you, unless you can place all of those restricted products in specific categories. In which case, you could then sort pages by category and simply delete those categories' pages.

This module is for Miva Merchant 2.x, 3.x and 4.x. It works with both the Miva Merchant look and feel (mmui.mv) and the OpenUI look and feel (oui.mv). If using the mmui.mv, there are two edits that need to be made to the mmui.mv file.

StatCat produces pages similar (mirror) to the layout in Miva Merchant with admin control. The following configuration settings are made within the standard Miva Merchant admin interface: Page title, home URL, optional title/store logo, title background color, title foreground color, category title header size, number of product columns on the category sort page, Meta description of the site, Meta keywords on the site, return action after adding a product to the basket, option to hide the prices, category column background color, category column foreground color, category column font, category column size, product background color in the category sorted pages, product foreground color in the category sorted pages, product font and size in the category sorted pages, optional display of thumbnail images in the category sorted pages, store front page welcome screen, search button input, product descriptions on category pages, and page footer.

Once generated, the index pages can be linked to your main home page. The catalog can be left in the directory it is generated in or copied to any web site (or multiple web sites) to increase search engine visibility. The links to images and back to your Merchant.mv store will work across servers. An example of this remote distribution can be seen at my Yahoo/Simplenet web site. The limitation to the remote distribution is that these remote static pages are one way, ie. placing a product in the basket will take the customer to the main Merchant.mv, but not back to the remote static page. They would then continue shopping in Merchant.mv. This limitation exists only if the static pages are not in their original catalog directory. If they are in the catalog directory on the local server with Merchant.mv, then return to the static pages is one of your options in admin.

The StatCat also has the ability to generate static pages which can be placed on a disk and used as a catalog which can be mailed or given out to potential customers. When using this option, links to your web site or the shopping cart are suppressed. An example of this type of catalog can be seen online. It has no links to the cart and the images are virtual to the static html pages.

When generating the catalog, the store owner has the option of restricting the html output to a list of specific categories. This is particularly useful when the store owner wants to place their static pages on remote servers which have specific themes in a mall environment. Some categories may "fit in" and some may not. This also might be useful if you want to create disks with only certain categories of products on them to be given to customers.

Note 1: StatCat uses the first letter of the product name to name the sub-pages. If you use illegal characters for the first letter of product names, you will not be able to generate the by-name catalog. An example would be the left bracket, as some might have put the font tag at the beginning of the product name. If that is the case, use the by-category catalog.

Note 2: If you have an excessively large products database, you will probably not be able to run StatCat on a server without timing out. However, you should be able to run it in MivaMia if you have a mirror of your store on your PC. You would then need to upload the static pages manually. This store of 600 products took about 5 seconds to generate the category pages.

Example static catalog pages

• Sort by name
  • This example has the add to basket button disabled
  • This example contains StatCat generated individual product pages
• Sort by category
  • Click through returns to the originating static page after addition (alternatively you can have it remain at the merchant.mv basket)
  • This example contains StatCat generated individual product pages

Several new features have been added to the compiled version; background image, functional navigation bar, "smart" metatags, extensive implementation of keyword and header and footer usage, product page names can be product code or name ending with html, inclusion of product links at the top or bottom listed as featured products or similar designation, include any fields in the products database on product pages (including modified structure), optionally hide subcategories on category pages as applicable, additional product page links such as "check availability or latest prices", and export to any directory within the store's path (creates directory if it does not exist). Discontinued (inactive) products can continue to have modified static pages generated so that search engine links remain viable, yet do not result in errors when linked to the store. Additionally, affiliate codes can be included with every link so that the static catalog pages can be given to affiliates who wish to mirror your catalog at their site. If you are using the OpenUI, StatCat adds "smart" metatags to your merchant.mv so that when the customers (and search engines) click from your static pages to your actual store, the pages will contain metatags related to category headers, product descriptions and product keywords (if used). It also reverses the title tag with the category and product screens so that the category or product name appear first, then the store name. If your store has our Volume Pricing module version (4.53 or higher) installed, StatCat can optionally include the volume price table on the static pages. When creating the static product pages, a flat file is created in the background which can be used for a data feed file for submission to Froogle^TM. It contains the header and data for the basic file format.

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2 Froogle Data Feed Product Export Weiland / Miva Central

Export your Miva Merchant product data in the basic file format required for Froogle^TM (© 2002 Google) data feed submissions for inclusion in their ecommerce search engine. Fields included: product_url, name, description (html removed), price, image_url, category, offer_id (code). This Miva Merchant plugin module works with both MMUI and OpenUI. No mmui.mv edits required.

Most agree, Google is the mother of all search engines on the Internet. Their new venture to create a listing of actual items for sale across the Internet, rather than pages with hits on keywords, is a bold attempt to better target customers and buyers in a symbiotic relationship. This is a giant leap in eCommerce, providing comparison shopping using the Google search engine. If you are a Miva Merchant store owner you CANNOT afford to miss this opportunity, especially since inclusion in the FroogleTM index is free. How much have you invested in getting your store's search engine rankings?

A big side benefit to getting listed in FroogleTM is that the Google company is spidering your site, thus it may increase the number of your pages listed in Google. Coincidentally, my site went from 1220 to 1350 pages in Google within a week after submitting the first data feed to FroogleTM. Granted, I use Static Catalog Generator to create static html pages of all of my products so there were already a lot of pages in Google. Now I have an additional 130 which had been overlooked. If you don't have a good representation of your product catalog already in Google or other search indexes, you may want to use the Static Catalog Generator to optimize site visibility. Search engine optimization requires a multi-pronged approach (static html pages, shorter links, specific paid or unpaid submissions to directories). I have found that use of static html pages consistently gets my site into search indexes better than the dynamically produced Miva Merchant pages. There is no direct indication that listing in Froogle will effect your listing in Google, only time will tell.

A module designed for the specific purpose of creating a data feed for Froogle^TM (rather than a generic data export) can include features which make it the best solution for the task:

• Include an affiliate code in the URLs so that you can better track where actual sales are coming from
• If your store is a single store in the domain, you can remove the Store_Code from the URL to aid in search engine spidering
• If you are using our Volume Pricing module (version 4.53 or newer), you have the option to submit the lowest (bulk) prices as your product prices, thus making your listings more attractive when compared with competitors in the Froogle^TM listing. However, the Google Feeds Support said the quantity option is not yet supported so it would be "best if you just give the price for ordering a single item". Eventually they plan to list the minimum break points to obtain the volume prices.
• Fast Data Feed plugin module creates the datafeed flat file directly from your admin
  • Frequent, no hassle submissions keep your data current in Froogle^TM
  • Eliminates the need to copy product and category databases from the server to your PC to produce a flat file export with software such as MS Excel
  • Uses your data as it exists within admin at the moment it is run
• Control over category insertion
  • Limit export to specific categories
  • Automatically builds the category hierarchy from each product's category up to top level category
  • Optionally modify category placement, overriding actual category hierarchy
• Removes html from your product descriptions; converting the brackets to escaped characters or even hiding html using the !-- technique did not satisfy Froogle^TM support staff - it must be completely removed
• Included in the module are features to eliminate timeouts when generating the data feed export of large numbers of products
• Exports to your documents directory rather than your data directory for ease of capture and transmittal

Don't delay. The Froogle^TM index is still in beta. As such, knowledge about it is not yet widespread due to limited promotion. The Froogle^TM support team has been reviewing requests for inclusion and currently have reasonable turn around time. Your store may or may not be accepted and I would expect it to take longer and have more stipulations for acceptance and continued inclusion as this service becomes more popular. You should request acceptance into Froogle^TM as soon as possible. Once accepted, whether you use our module for building the datafeed or some other software, you should do it now while time is on your side.

As this is a new endeavor for Froogle^TM, I expect them to change their format and add new capabilities over time. Licensees of the 4.x version of this module will have free upgrades of the module through the 4.x version. We do not yet have a 2.x version available but will be exploring that option next week. Please ensure you select the correct module version for the version of Merchant you have.

Miva Merchant (© 2002 Miva Corp.), Google (© 2002 Google), and MS Excel (© 2003 Microsoft Corporation) are copyright by their respective owners. Froogle^TM is a trademark of Google (© 2002 Google).

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3 Volume Pricing Weiland / Miva Central

Discount your product prices based on the number of items ordered of identical products, eg 1-3 = standard price, 4-6 = lower, etc.

The admin interface provides an easy to enter "from - to cost" format. You can literally have as many ranges as you want to type in. See the image below for example syntax. You can either use actual values or percent of price to be subtracted from the product price. These price differentials are added directly in the admin interface under the product edit screen. You only apply these price differentials in the products that you want to use them.

This module applies the price in your low, high, cost groupings. If you do not include a grouping at the single item level, it will use the method for pricing in your store. It only activates if you include a low, high, cost grouping. For example:
6|10|12%
11|20|14%
21|999|16%

The module only uses price groups when using the percent off discount calculation. If you enter fixed prices for the quantity ranges, then price groups are ignored. Keep in mind that the percent discounts will be over and above the discount already given if you are using price groups.

In the compiled version you can opt to not give the price group an additional discount above the volume pricing. You can even make all or some price groups not eligible for volume pricing and hide the table from them completely. Customers must be logged in to identify the price group they are in before the volume pricing module can disqualify them from volume pricing.

The percentage discounting method subtracts the percent discount from the base price. Base price does not include attribute prices. To apply the percentage, simply include the percent symbol (%) in the line. If you are using cost method for your store (other than price groups), you will not be able to use the percentage discounting method. Instead, use the actual value method.

If you are using another third party module which overrides prices in the basket and recomputes them using the price in the product record, you will not be able to use this module. Other third party modules will not recognize that it needs to apply the calculations in this module.

The module recognizes identical products. Hence different attributes will change the product enough that the discount won't apply. For example 3 red shirts and 6 blue shirts will not give the discount of 9 shirts. Rather, they'll get the discount rate of 3 for one of the line items and 6 for the other.

The module for the compiled version of merchant DOES have the ability to amalgamate quantities so in the example above as long as the product code is the same, all 9 items would get the volume discount for 9 items. You have the option for each product code to amalgamate quantities or treat varied attributes as different products.

You can optionally include a table on the product (PROD) and category (CTGY) screens displaying the rates as generated from the products' volume discount record. You can see an example of that with our best seller products. You can optionally have a quantity input in that table display. These options are configured through admin.

New in the compiled version is compatibility interface with the OpenUI Tokens and Viking Coders product template module. Place the table display on the product page so that it better fits your desired look. New configuration options added for the table display. Also, the ability to display the lowest price in place of the standard price when volume pricing effects the product, the store is using the OpenUI, the store is version 4.14 or higher, and there are no other 3rd party modules effecting the price display. This feature is useful if you want to have a sale on one or more items. Simply set the volume to 1 or more with a specific discount percentage and you have a sale with as low as display. You can use the token %product_price_f% to further highlight that with a strike thru. To make this feature even more useful, you can enter a starting and ending date for the sale so that it will start and end automatically. For ease of entry, a flat file import module is included. You can put all product codes in the flat file or use an asterisk (*) and one line of "rules" to apply the volume price to all products in the store. Create a storewide sale, e.g. 10% off in seconds with a specific start and stop date. Then just as quickly remove all settings at your leisure after the sale. There is also a volume price export so you can quickly build your flat file, then edit or add to it. This is useful when you want to have a storewide sale on all products but retain volume prices on your regularly discounted items. Export the volume prices. Import your sale settings. Import your volume discounts on the few you want to maintain at pre-sale prices. The volume price can also be used in our compiled Fast Data Feed module for froogle submissions and our Static Catalog Generator which creates static html pages for better search engine indexing.

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4 Flexible Product Description Weiland / Miva Central

Add additional field data within the product narrative description. This data will appear on the screen as if it is in a separate field, but is really just part of the narrative memo field. This Merchant version 2.22 or 3.x module handles the parsing so that the customer only sees the data in the appropriate places.

No modification to the products database structure is required. No additional databases are required to support this additional data. The additional data is added into product records just as any other product data, through admin or via flat file import. This provides easier code maintainability and faster data access. Since the data is stored within the product narrative description field, that data is immediately available to the standard Merchant search function with no code modification. This is the simplest way to display additional data in the product and category screens as if it is in separate fields instead of just narrative data. By doing this, the data stands out as name - value pairs, eg Author: Hemmingway.

An added benefit is that you can have within your store products with different types of additional field data. Some products might need additional fields such as author, publisher, and date while other products might need fields such as composer, vocalist, and country of origin. This software product is an example of such a situation. Most of the products in my store are movie posters and contain additional fields related to them. That field data is stored in separate fields and maintained via prodmore (module for importing additional field data into separate fields). While this product record contains those same additional fields (naturally they are empty), I have added four fields via Flexible Product Description, which only appear in this product record. You can see them as Merchant Version, User Interface, CIM Tool Kit, Combo and New Image in the CTGY and PROD screens. In a Merchant 3.0 store, they can also appear in expanded product display screens for SRCH and PLST. I've also added the New Image field to some of the new product records to demonstrate the flexibility this feature provides. You can see the search box on the store front which lists new products by month.

New in the compiled version is compatibility interface with the OpenUI Tokens and Viking Coders product template module. Place the additional field data on the product page so that they better fit your desired look. Pseudo-fields, brief and keyword, can be used by Static Catalog Generator to improve search engine ranking for both the static html and dynamic Miva Merchant pages. See the install notes for details.

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5 Search Friendly Store Map Copernicus / Miva Central

The Search Friendly Store Map module creates a static HTML page containing Search Friendly Links to all of the categories and products in your Miva Merchant store. When you provide an HTML link to the Store Map from your home page, search engines will read the map and will then be directed to catalog every category and product in your store.

The Search Friendly Store Map optionally uses short-style links in order to provide search engines with links that are more likely to be followed. When using a short-link style, this module should only be used with its sister-module, Search Friendly Links. The Search Friendly Links module understands the short links in the Store Map and interprets the short links so that your store links function properly. When used together, these two products greatly improve the possibility of having your storefront “spidered” by the search engines.

The Search Friendly Store Map optionally uses “directory style” short links which are then rewritten into Search Friendly Links using the Apache mod_rewrite commands described in the manual. This third (optional) style of link should only be used when Apache-style URL rewriting is available and the Search Friendly Links module is also installed. This format should provide optimal spidering, as all products and categories are seen as “static html” pages via the Store Map.

Key Benefits:

• Generates a static HTML Store Map page from your Miva Merchant site
• Static HTML page contains links to all category and product pages in your Miva Merchant site
• All links in the Store Map are optionally “Search Friendly”
• The Store Map page can be provided to search engines for “spidering”
• The Store Map page can be made available on your website to give customers a quick way to navigate through your site
• Map Headers and Footers are configurable so map can serve as a “splash page’
• Choice of three link styles:
  1. Standard Miva Merchant links
  2. Short-style “merchant.mv?page=” (Search Friendly) Links:
     ie: http://www.store.com/path/merchant.mv?page=Store/Screen/Cat/Prod
  3. Static HTML “directory” style links using .htaccess rewriting:
     ie: http://www.store.com/page/Store/Screen/Cat/Prod
• Inserts a LINK tag in the HTML HEAD section of your Miva Merchant storefront
• LINK tags tell a search engine to read the static HTML page and catalog all the category and product pages in the store map
• Allows you to re-generate the static HTML page with the click of a button when you add more products or categories to your Miva Merchant storefront
• Create an updated list of your category and product pages on the HTML page

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6 Static Page Generator CrosstownTraffic.Net /

Static page generation will make a duplicate of your site's products into static html pages, with an easy index page of all items. This script inserts the META tags (Description, and Keywords, NOFOLLOW) from your product name, and description, and places them into the HEAD of the document (where they are found by search engines). The filenames are the product codes, and the title of the page is the product name. Even the products' Attributes are placed on the screen for the customer to make a choice right there! From these pages, visitors can add the product, and it will take them into the basket of the store.

Plug And Play Utility module allows complete control over how your page is formatted. you choose where the Product Name, Description, Image, Price, Weight, Product Code, and Attributes display. All customizable from an easy to use Admin Screen. It has never been easier to make pages for the Search Engines, and keep them updated.

Look for new features to come soon - including adding your own keywords and descriptions to pages inside the Merchant Cart with OUI. These keywords and descriptions will also be used for the static pages.

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7 AgentTrk Pro Static Page Generator modStop /

This module enhances your existing affiliate program and extends the functionality of AgentTrk Pro. Easily define HTML templates for your store and products, and instantly generate HTML pages to give to your Agents that automatically include all relevant Agent URL links into the store. Expand your affiliate network by making it easy on your Agents

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8 Printable Catalog Generator Sante Fe Mall / MvCool

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9 Meta Tag Generator Copernicus / Miva Central

Search Engine Optimization for Miva Merchant
Miva Merchant does not inherently provide the Meta Tags that are used by search engines to catalog websites. The MetaTag Generator automatically provides the Meta Tags required by search engines for proper search engine recognition and positioning. This module creates those tags for you and allows your storefront to be recognized and cataloged by the search engines.

Key Benefits Include:

• Automatically generates category- and product-specific keywords based on existing category and product names in Miva Merchant
• Automatically generates a page description based on the existing site introduction page, category and product headers in Miva Merchant
• Places these keywords in the HTML HEAD section of your Miva Merchant store – exactly where the search engines go to look for Meta Tags!
• Allows you to specify site-wide keywords that are added to all pages
• Automatically creates META ROBOT tags to indicate which pages should be followed and indexed (ie: Store Front, Category and Product pages), and "noindex" for pages such as the Login & Checkout
• Allows you to tell the search engines how often to come back and spider your site through the “Meta Revisit-After” functionality
• Gives you FULL CONTROL of your product and category Meta Tag descriptions and keywords
• Specify Site-Wide Keywords that are added to all pages
• All descriptions and keywords can be customized individually for the store front, category and product pages

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10 Search Engine Killer Wump Services / Miva Central

Have you ever wondered why you're not getting massive hits on your Miva Merchant Store when you have the best prices on the Internet? Ever searched the internet through a search engine only to find that some ancient, inefficient and cumbersome old site is getting all the hits that you deserve?

Well now its time to get serious, its time to get even... its time to bring in the Search Engine KILLER.

THE PROBLEM
merchant.mv?thisandthat

The problem with Miva Merchant and other database driven stores is that the technology used to access and display the product information is NOT search engine friendly.. In fact, most search engines will ignore EVERY PAGE of your eStore!

Someone somewhere made the decision that URLs with arguments, information passed long with the URL eg. file.mv?argument1&argument2 etc, indicates that the page isn't worth indexing, but these arguments are essential to any database driven store. Some search engines even refuse to index pages that are .mv! (Northern Light for one).

As a result, your state of the art Miva Merchant Store is missing out on major search engine exposure, and your competitors lousy mall which they hand create using FrontPage97 is getting all the hits.. JUST BECAUSE EVERY PAGE IS A STATIC HTML PAGE.

In an ideal world, what you need is the sophistication of your Miva Merchant Mall and the search engine pulling power of a good old HTML site too.

• 100% HTML
• Designed with the Search Engine in mind using the Title tag, Meta Tags, text placement, IMG ALT attributes and more to get you the best possible search engine ranking.
• automatically generates HTML pages from the information stored within Merchant:

• product pictures througout! The SEK Mirror references the URL of the product images already online in your real merchant store!
• multiple links on every html page to both the SEK Mirror pages (so that the search engines find and index every single page) and directly to your Merchant Mall..
• dynamic referencing technology is used so that the links back to your Miva Merchant Mall are context sensitive. eg. SEK Mirror product pages click straight through to the appropriate BUY ONE page in your real Merchant Store!
• remembers your previous preferences to allow ultra-fast regeneration after significant changes to your mall
• SAME NAMING CONVENTIONS AS SEK1
• the html files generated are named using the Merchant Category and Product codes you have specified in Merchnat so that even after a new mirror is generated the Search Engines find previously indexed files.
• Even if search engines DID spider every page of your Merchant Store, there is NO WAY that it would get the same high rankings. Your SEK Mirrors site is built from the ground up with search engines in mind by a developer with many years of experience in site promotion.

EVERY PAGE IS DESIGNED TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT IT IS YOUR STORE WHEN IT IS REALLY JUST A TEASER PAGE

What will it mean to your business to be able to submit a single html page to search engines and have their spider catalog every category and product you have?

How would you like to be able to strengthen your position by submitting an html page for each category that can also be submitted seperately?

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11 Swap Link v5 Emporium Plus / Miva Central

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12 Search Engine Optimization Suite Copernicus / Miva Central

Copernicus offers the Search Engine Optimization Suite that gives you a “jump start” at optimizing your Miva Merchant store for search engine spiders and robots. The bundle includes the Copernicus Meta Tag Generator, Search Friendly Store Map and Search Friendly Links modules – all for a 20% discount from the retail price of each of these modules.

By using these three products together, you are creating a robust search engine strategy without having to invest in customized optimization services.

These modules solve the SEO void in Miva Merchant by providing you with meta tags for each of your category and product pages, giving you a static html Store Map that is easily digested by the search engine spiders, and changes each of your Miva Merchant page urls to spider-friendly patterns that attract search engines to your store.

The outcome is increased opportunities with search engines and with good content on your site, you now have the tools to help you increase your positioning with search engines.

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13 Swap Link Weiland / Miva Central

Converts your category and product links to single parameter URLs so that search engines will index your Merchant pages. Many search engines will only index URLs which have just one value after the ? character. This shortened URL is swapped with the original URL links for the category names in the category tree and the product names on the various list pages and category pages. Alternatively, you can use URLs which are similar to the original URL links, but with the Store_Code removed. These shorter (modified URLs) can be indexed by most search engines. By using this method, you don't need an external handler file and will still get the store indexed.

Optionally adds rollover bullets to the left of the category names in the category column. These bullets contain links in the standard URL format for Merchant so that each category has two different links on the storefront. As an added feature, if the store is a single store in the domain, the URL is optimized for search engines by removing the redundant store code which has been found to hinder search engines. This optimized URL is used with the optional bullets in the category column and also with the thumbnails on category pages.

Optionally adds text or image below the thumb on category pages, e.g. Click to Enlarge or More Info.

This module works with a handler file such as our free store4.mvc (compiled store4.mv).

The Swap Link module can further enhance your chances of search engine ranking by producing static sitelink*.htm files which list all of your categories and products with the single parameter link. This feature is configurable to allow you to optimize the sitelink pages with meta tags, key word rich text, etc. The site link pages are generated very quickly through admin. You can optionally include the price and a brief description of the item. The brief description uses either the Flexible Product Description module pseudofield called "brief" or the first 100 characters of the full product description. As long as you don't go overboard with your narrative (top of page) text, each page will be less than 100K. If multiple pages are required to include your whole catalog, a link to the next page is included on each page.

Limitations:

OpenUI look and feel only. While it can be used in a MMUI store (like this one), the editing is complex and I do not provide instructions so that you could do it yourself, as anticipated support would be significant.

Currently has not been tested with cgi type Merchant URLs, so I can't certify that it works with them.

Currently is not compatible with Viking Coders category templates. If there is enough interest, I will make an effort to include that compatibility.

If you have replaced the standard layouts (product line or product expanded) with custom, 3rd party module solutions, then the swap links will not be generated for those particular pages.

Category links use the standard category tree (column). If you have removed the left hand category column, then the swap links cannot be generated.

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14 Convert Static Navigation Bar Links Advanz Design / Miva Central

Easily place dynamic navbar links in the shopping basket page, global header/footer for custom static navigation bars, and category tree of your storefront. Place special tokens for your links inside your Basket Contents Header/Footer, Global Header/Footer, and Category Tree Header/Footer to convert your static navbar links to dynamic links. Dynamic link tokens inlcude: Select Store, Storefront, Account, Search, Product List, Basket, and Checkout.

Enable your static nav bar to behave dynamically like the built-in Miva Merchant nav bar including the logged in/out functionality of the account and checkout links. Perfect for storefronts with custom made static nav bars placed in the global header/footer to be enhanced with the dynamic capabilities as with the Miva Merchant nav bar! Screenshot displays the simple-to-use instructions.

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15 Static Account & Checkout Links modStop /

Permits static URLs to be used to direct customers: When you construct your URLS for the static navbar, in the Account URL, use Screen="SACNT" (instead of Screen=ACNT) to direct the customer to the account page if logged in or to the Login screen if not. In the checkout URL, use Screen="SOINF" (instead of Screen="OINF") to direct the customer to the customer information page if logged in, and to the Login screen if not (and then to the customer information screen after they log in). Also, you need to have it set in admin to provide the login screen before the checkout to have this particular redirection work.

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16 Ultimate Feed Generator NetBlazon / NetBlazon

Ultimate Feed Generator is a tool for generating product feeds, sitemaps, and more. It can be used to create feeds for:

• Shopping Portals: Shopzilla, NexTag, Shopping.com, PriceGrabber, and more
• Search engine sitemaps: Google XML Sitemaps, Yahoo Search Submit, etc
• HTML Store Maps: page(s) on your own site that link to every (or selected) product and category

Ultimate Feed Generator comes with 5 pre-defined feeds: Google Sitemaps, Froogle, PriceGrabber, Yahoo Site Submit, and an HTML site map. You can create as many new feeds, for as many purposes as you like, through the simply yet powerful interface. In addition, we'll be providing new feed templates on our website in the near future, free for licensed users.

The module provides tokens to display dynamic product and category data, such as name, price, description, weight, and other database fields. It also fully supports OpenTokens for users of OpenUI (although OpenUI is not required to use Ultimate Feed Generator). Feeds can be generated individually, or you can select multiple feeds and run them at once. (Check them all off and go to lunch while it processes, for instance.)

Fully supports OpenTokens, and special link styles (such as Search Friendly Links and others) can be built using tokens.

"If you haven't had a chance to use this yet I think you'll be blown away. It's truly the Swiss Army Knife of feed/export modules." -Marvin Sanders, WineBuys.com

Note: A version of Ultimate Feed Generator for Miva Merchant 5 should be available in February 2006.

See sample UFG tutorials at MerchantHowTo.com:
General tour of the module
Creating Search Friendly Links in UFG

Module documentation available at http://www.netblazon.com/docs/miva/help/nbfeeds.html

Screenshots

Module Administration - List of Feeds

Module Administration - Creating a New Feed

Module Administration - Editing a Feed's Template

Module Administration - Editing a Feed's Options

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17 Static Account and Checkout Links Viking Coders /

Appropriately redirects static Account and Checkout links. The module allows you to use Screen=SACNT and Screen=SOINF respectively to replace the standard links while retaining the dynamic behavior.

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18 Meta Tags Master v5 Advanced Development Solutions / Miva Central

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a key to the success of your On-Line business. This module provides a multi-level control of your store meta tags. You can specify meta tags on a global, page, category and product levels. Module provides a template field for each of its levels, along with an Advanced META Tag Generator Tool which will quickly generate common meta tags, based on provided information. METAMaster Module is designed for easy intallation and is automatically configured for SFNT Storefront, CTGY Category Display and PROD Product Display pages. You can easily add this functionality to any other page used by MIVA Merchant system. This gives you master control over your store meta tag settings.

The ADS META Master Module Features:

• Simple Module Installation and Configuration
  • Automatic installation, configuration and item assignment for SFNT, CTGY and PROD pages.
  • Automatic installation and assignment of revised Storfront, Product Display and Category Display templates. Current version history templates are used to generate revised templates. Previous template versions will be available through version history.
  • Multi-Level control of store meta tags. Global, Page, Category and Product Level controls are available.
  • Advanced META Tag Generator Tool which will quickly generate common meta tags, based on provided information. You can also quickly check the character count for META Description and Keywords. This tool will be available on all METAMaster controlled fields.
  • Module is fully compatible with Merchant Template language. Tokens can be used to dynamically populate information in your meta tags, which can be a great time saver.
  • No template editing is required, but is available for advanced users. HTML and template scripting knowledge is required to make template modifications. If you do not have these skills it is recommended you contact ADS representative to get assistance with template design and customization.
• Global Level Control:
  • Global META Tag settings are used if no other meta tags are available
  • Global Level Control can be used on any of MIVA Merchant pages
  • Advanced META Tag Generator Tool make creating meta tags simple
  • Tokens can be used to automatically insert content
• Page Level Control:
  • Page META Tag settings are used if no Product or Category meta tags are available
  • Page Level META Tags take priority over the Global Level settings
  • Page Level Control can be assigned to any of MIVA Merchant pages
  • Advanced META Tag Generator Tool make creating meta tags simple
  • Tokens can be used to automatically insert content
• Category Level Control:
  • Category Level META Tags take priority over the Global and Page Level settings
  • Advanced META Tag Generator Tool make creating meta tags simple
  • Tokens can be used to automatically insert content
• Product Level Control:
  • Product Level META Tags take priority over the Global and Page Level settings
  • Advanced META Tag Generator Tool make creating meta tags simple
  • Tokens can be used to automatically insert content
• Additional Module Uses:
  • Easily add module functionality to any other page used by MIVA Merchant system.
  • Use this module to provide additional content to the page HEAD area, specific to individual page templates, categories and products. The content may be javascript, stylesheets or any other page, category or product specific information that belongs in the HEAD section of the page.

Sample META Master Category configuration screen with Advanced META Tag Generator Tool

Module installation and functionality has the following requirements:

• MIVA Merchant Version 5.0
• Settings and control this module provides are used in conjunction with Item "ads-metamaster", PROD Product Display, CTGY Category Display and SFNT Strorefront page templates that are pre-installed and configured with this module.
• Original templates and/or Merchant "Original" templates will not be modified by this module and can be restored, using the new Version history features, at any time.
• No template editing is required, but is available for advanced users. HTML and template scripting knowledge is required to make template modifications. If you do not have these skills it is recommended you contact ADS representative to get assistance with template design and customization.

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19 Return to Last Static Url modStop /

This module saves the last static URL that your shopper came from, and adds a "Continue Shopping" button to the Basket Contents page which returns the shopper to that last static page.

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20 Return to Static Url modStop /

This module allows you to specify a "return URL" to be able to (for example) add products to your basket from a static page, and then return to that static page.

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