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Mastering Magento

By : Bret Williams
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Mastering Magento

By: Bret Williams

Overview of this book

<p>Magento, the most popular open source e-commerce platform in the world, is both amazingly powerful and astoundingly complex. Learn from an experienced Magento "master" how to leverage the full power of Magento.<br /><br /><i>MASTERING MAGENTO</i> is the perfect companion guide for both newcomers and experienced Magento users. Designers, developers and store owners alike will have a better understanding of how Magento works, and how to take advantage of Magento's immense power to create online stores that help you sell.<br /><br />From planning your Magento installation through advanced techniques designed to make your store as successful as possible, this book is a roadmap for managing your Magento store.<br /><br />Focusing on Magento's Community version, the book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance. Learn how to manage categories, products, design themes, extensions and more.<br /><br />Using real-world examples, screenshots and personal insights, you'll learn to truly master Magento.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Magento
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Search engine optimization


Without exception, for an online store to prosper, it has to have customers. Attracting customers comes from a variety of efforts, including search engine rankings. There are lots of SEO-related activities for increasing traffic, from blog postings and backlinks, to product descriptions and reviews. For pre-launch purposes, you want to make sure to do the initial tasks that will add to the SEO arsenal.

Meta tags

If you intend to use meta tags as part of your search engine optimization, see Chapter 7, Marketing Tools, for specific procedural information.

Analytics

In your Magento backend, under System | Configuration | Sales | Google API is a panel titled Google Analytics. To have Magento automatically include Google tracking code on each page of your site, set Enable to Yes and enter your Google Analytics ID in the Account Number field.

Sitemap

If you did not already do it after reading Chapter 7, Marketing Tools, configure and activate your Magento store sitemap...