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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

Time for action – registering with the search engines


We will look at Google first, then Bing and Yahoo!.

  1. Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/ and fill out the simple form. Also consider signing up for Google Webmaster Tools , and explore the options and statistics that it provides.

  2. For Bing, you need to visit http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster; you will need a Windows Live ID. If you don't already have one, you can create one for free.

  3. Yahoo! has merged with Bing, so if you did the previous step, this one has been done too.

What just happened?

You might get your site indexed immediately, or it might take months. Don't worry too much about it because there is no way to influence the search giants other than by creating great, unique content. And, of course, we have already done that.

Now let's look at getting your first sale.