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How to Create a FTP Account in Volusion

by Erik EllsworthDecember 15, 2009 Volusion

Need FTP access to your Volusion ecommerce store?  Follow our quick tutorial on setting up a FTP account to get the backstage access you require.
Why Do I Need FTP Access?
For many Volusion store owners you may never need FTP access but there are many reasons why you might:

Ability to upload images in bulk
Add custom code [...]

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How to Setup Automatic Drop Ship POs in Volusion

by Erik EllsworthNovember 10, 2009 Volusion

Follow These Configuration Steps for a Seamless Purchase Order Process
If you’re like most businesses today you have a relationship with one or more manufacturers.  Any in many cases you don’t even carry an inventory but simply have a factory-direct relationship which allows them to ship directly to your customer.  Today, we’ll walk-through how you can [...]

Tagged as: drop-ship, ecommerce, shipping, vendors

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Get Your Volusion Store Ready for the Holidays

by Erik EllsworthNovember 9, 2009 SEO

Follow These Google Webmaster Tips to Ensure Holiday Traffic Finds You
Hard to believe we’re weeks away from the holiday rush, isn’t it?  For many retailers and business owners, the majority of your revenue is won or lost over the next 2 ½ months.  Is your Volusion ecommerce store ready?  Google’s Webmaster Tools will help you [...]

Tagged as: ecommerce, google, webmaster tools

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How to Setup Google Analytic Goals in Volusion

by Erik EllsworthSeptember 18, 2009 How-To

What You Must Do to Properly Tracking Your Volusion Conversions
Essential to any Volusion ecommerce store is properly setting up your Google Analytics Goals and Funnel.  Without proper set-up you will be unable to fully analyze your traffic and determine what’s profitable and what keywords are driving great revenue.
Before setting up your Google Analytic goals you’ll [...]

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How to Use the Canonical Tag in Volusion

by Erik EllsworthSeptember 11, 2009 Volusion

If you use Volusion as your ecommerce hosting solution, you home page can be found using the following 3 URLs:

www.yoursite.com/default.asp
www.yoursite.com
www.yoursite.com/default.asp?Redirected=Y

And, did you know each one of those links can and usually do have a separate Page Rank in Google?  These “duplicate” pages can hurt your overall rankings and diminish your hard built link juice if [...]

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How to Install Google Analytics for Volusion Sites

by Erik EllsworthSeptember 4, 2009 How-To

Installing GA Tracking Reveals Valuable Ecommerce Metrics
Although there are many ecommerce hosting solutions out there, from a SEO and small business perspective, Volusion is a tough act to beat.  I’m a firm believer that a small business should focus on its core competency and only take on what’s absolutely necessary.   I think hosting an ecommerce [...]

Tagged as: ecommerce, google analytics

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