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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.In"PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide" you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Summary


You might be getting quite excited about your new PrestaShop store. The features and procedures that you have completed in this chapter together make for a very significantly optimized store. I have seen countless web stores, even some of the big names, that do not have anything like the SEO options that you now have enabled.

Now, this doesn't mean that this alone will suddenly bring a flood of visitors; it doesn't work like that. I can guarantee you that you have taken the very significant initial steps towards having a store that is approved of by humans and search engines alike. And in a later chapter, we will turn on the tap to begin the eventual flood of visitors. SEO should definitely be an ongoing project and I recommend further reading. A good place to start is a website that discusses SEO in a specifically PrestaShop context. Check out www.presto-changeo.com and have a look at some of the SEO tips and tricks. Also visit the PrestaShop forum at www.PrestaShop.com where they...