Latest Miva SEO News and Tips for Miva Merchant Store Owners

Read the latest news and tips related to seo that could benefit your site.

• Most Annoying Ads that Miva Merchant Store Owners Can Implement - Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox recently revealed the most hated advertising tecniques as rated by consumers.  Definitely check this article out.  An appropriate situation to analyze is the use of Exit Message ( MmExit ) by truXoft.  Do you use it to advertise to customers leaving your store without buying, potentially upsetting them when they might intend to return to buy later?
• Entireweb Meta Search Engine - A new meta search engine is here with a free and paid listing service.  JMH used their free submit service and has not been listed in over five months.  Some reports have alleged that the paid inclusion hasn't been great.  Others think it is great.  I would hold off on purchasing their paid listing service for now.
• 301 Redirects - This has been a hot topic lately.  A company has come under fire for using 302 redirects which is temporary when they should have been using 301 redirects which is permanent.  If a page or url is no longer being used, you should definitely put a permanent redirect rather than a temporary one.  Here are some example of code to use in your .htaccess file:
  
  Redirect 301 /some-directory http://www.yourdomain.com/new-directory
  Redirect 301 /some-file.html http://www.yourdomain.com/new-file.html
• Mental Models of Search - Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox shows you how to implement search in your store to help customers find what they want and buy your products. Be sure to also click on the link to search usability.

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