The Small Green Tree Blog

November 27, 2006

Making Your Site Google-Friendly

Filed under: site promotion — Richard @ 4:11 pm

The exact workings of Google’s ranking method is known only to Google of course. However here is an article that provides a very well educated guess at factors which may help your ranking - and factors that may damage it!

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm

November 20, 2006

Contacts Library

Filed under: web-store-buddy — Richard @ 1:59 pm

The link to the contacts library is now included on the control panel home page to make it easier to find

November 13, 2006

How To Include The Sender’s Email In The Email Subject Line

Filed under: web-form-buddy — Richard @ 10:50 am

When you receive a form inquiry the email subject line will probably look something like this:

Web site enquiry from mydomain.com

You can modify this at configure form >> email options

When you scan down a lot of these stored emails it can be handy to see who each one is from. And in fact web-form-buddy allows you to have the email address of the sender included in the email subject line.

You do this by adding a special tag to the email subject line that you set up at configure form >> email options. The tag is tag
Examples:

  1. Web site enquiry from mydomain.com (tag)
  2. Web site enquiry from tag at mydomain.com

If the sender’s email address is ‘fred@gmail.com’, then this would result in the following:

Example 1: Web site enquiry from mydomain.com (fred@gmail.com)

Example 2: Web site enquiry from fred@gmail.com at mydomain.com

November 8, 2006

Shopping Cart ‘Shipping’ Can Now Be Any Phrase You Want

Filed under: web-store-buddy — Richard @ 3:27 pm

When web-store-buddy displays a shopping cart it says “shipping”. That phrase also appears in the order confirmation. However Diane from yellowbarnweb.com has a customer who makes a handling charge based on a percentage of the order rather than a shipping charge.

Web-store-buddy can calculate the charge perfectly well but it doesn’t look right on the shopping cart.

So what we’ve done is added a new option (under “shipping & handling”) that allows you to replace “shipping” with a phrase of your choice (e.g. handling, carriage, freight).

November 5, 2006

Co-branding Enabled For Web-Form-Buddy

Filed under: web-form-buddy — Richard @ 4:31 pm

If you are are a web designer and you have set up more than one buddy account you can now add your own brand to the email tag lines that web-form-buddy sends out! This is useful for two reasons:

  • it obviously helps with your sales & marketing
  • your customers will know who has supplied the form processor application and therefore who to contact for assistance

Both the form email and and the form’s autoresponder email have a tag line like this:

~ web form processor powered by www.web-form-buddy.com

Now, as long as you have an active ‘buddy’ subscription for more than one site, you can co-brand emails with a tag line that points to your own web site:

~ web form processor powered by www.mywebsite.com

(We have also made it possible to disable the tag line altogether. We don’t particularly recommend that option however as it means the personnel in the organization will not know who to contact if they need support)

November 3, 2006

Refer-A-Buddy Opt-In Emails

Filed under: refer-a-buddy — Richard @ 12:30 am

www.womensfunnyvideos.com pointed out that if you use both opt-in-buddy and refer-a-buddy.com - and if you don’t want to collect email addresses with refer-a-buddy.com, the control panel would not allow that option.

Now fixed!

November 2, 2006

Web-Store-Buddy Delivery Address Telephone Contact Added

Filed under: web-store-buddy — Richard @ 4:58 pm

Following a suggestion from Nigel at the Board Game Company we have now added a field on the shipping address form for a contact telephone number. That should prove useful for the courier company if they need to try to contact the recipient to arrange a delivery time.

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