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  1. Is the logo you put up larger than the previous one? Try rolling back the christmas logo to see if the problem goes away. Often times columns disappear when there are problems with 's or CSS. It's probably something really simple since all you did was change the logo....
  2. What exactly needs to be added from google to enable google-analytics? Is it just a javascript that needs to be run? Just enclose it in {literal} tags in the .tpl file and see if that works. I played with it briefly and it seemed to work but I was getting some mixed-content errors so I deleted it and never got around to messing with it again.
  3. Webmaster tools have been there for a long time. It used to show PR of your pages but they have abandoned it as a sign of things to come. Speed of your site will also be a huge factor in search results in the near future. Google always changes. Never stays the same....it's always something different from one year to the next. Used to be page rank, then # of links, right now quality of content and links instead of number of links, in the future speed and quality.. go figure.
  4. You have to export the sql database and import it into a freshly created presta database. If you are a novice with sql, your hosting company should be able to do it for you.
  5. The sitemap fix will help you out. Google Sitelinks are automatically generated by google. You have no control over it. They usually show up when your site is well respected by Google. Do a search for "glassware dreams" in google for my site and you will see my site is #1 and has links underneath where the main pages are listed and those links are the automatically generated "sitelinks". You should also see them in the Webmaster tools section. You can control them only in disabling pages you do not want to appear.
  6. Ok basically I'm an idiot and don't know what I am talking about. But I will give you these two pieces of advise that are neither here nor there. #1 your backlinks are suspect.. Everywhere you have a link just looking at them, you are sharing way too much of the respective page PR with other sites. Meaning the links you are getting have way too many OBL (outbound links). You are going to get very little juice from even a pr6 if you are sharing with 20 other sites that also have a link on the page. #2 Optimize the main page first, don't worry about PR. Get people coming to your main page for your main keywords first. Your site does not even have Google sitelinks yet. Get sitelinks and do it the proper way. Visit http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ and learn from the SEO experts there. Tons of better information than you will find here. Pose your questions there as well. Those guys know their stuff. Feel free to PM there if you have any further questions as well. I am Ion_Cannon there also. your problem is not prestashop related really... Good luck
  7. There is no real easy way to do it. Depending on the size of your database it can range from easy to very hard. Whenever I have moved, I have exported all the SQL tables then divided them up and done one at a time since my DB has gotten kind of large. Just make sure you have good backups and come up with a process that works for you and you will be fine. Most of all, take your time. Don't try to do it in 10 seconds because it won't happen.
  8. Not really disagreeing with you. I am just not sure that any real problem can be defined that will cause anyone's site a problem. I am just saying overall PR can't be used to really detect a problem. My site is a PR2 yet I outrank 5 or 6 PR4+ sites for my #1 keywords when their #1 keywords are the same as mine since they are competitors... just more proof pagerank explains absolutely nothing. So I put absolutely no stock in "Toolbar PR is quite a good reflection of what google thinks of a site" because it absolutely DOES NOT. The toolbar PR is a joke even if the refresh was two seconds ago it doesn't matter....hopefully they remove it soon just like they did in their Admin sections because it is probably 1% important to a site's SEO or performance on the search engines.
  9. I think the article backs up what I am saying perfectly. #1 point being that the Toolbar page rank is totally unreliable. So that DOES backup my point. It IS totally unreliable and not entirely accurate. So why even bother with it?? Generally, Pages are only going to get pagerank if other important pages link to them, I don't think internal linking matters too much for page rank, it is content and external links....so, there's no guarantee that the site will have good Pagerank for sub-pages unless you have nice external linking to them. The best tool for determining how your site looks to Google is Google's own Webmaster Tools. I would not trust the Google toolbar in determining how your site performs on Google. Also, another tool that is great to use for free is called "Traffic Travis". It's a great little program to see how your site is doing in Google for keyword rankings.
  10. IC but did you even looks at the PR structure of the cbk like above and notice how the PR lowed to the lower pages...that's how it suppose to look like if your file internal links are correct...something is not right with the way Prestashop; is doing this! If you check my site www.kctrading.net you will not see this structure. Please take a look before commenting...thanks! I see it but it does not really matter. Pagerank doesn't help either way. It's all about how your pages appear in the SERP's...here is a nice write up: http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17365
  11. I still say pagerank means zippo. It's all about the SERPs. Pagerank is a very minor factor in determining your SERP rankings and driving traffic to your site....for increasing search engine results it is a well known fact that "quality" Backlinks are the most important factor, followed by good content, then on page SEO, and then MAYBE pagerank but I bet there is something more important that I am forgetting than pagerank. I used to make the mistake of trying to boost my pagerank. When I started concentrating on backlinks, that's when I started seeing huge increases in traffic to my site along with PPC ads. I get over 1000 unique visitors and growing each day now. Pretty good for a small shop IMHO.
  12. Pagerank means absolutely nothing anymore unless you are a page rank of 6 or better. Just work on building quality links with keyword anchor text back to your site and you will see tremendous gains in the SERP's. Google will eventually do away with page-rank altogether it looks like..
  13. I wrote an express checkout that pretty much makes it 10x easier for the customer to checkout and have seen drastic improvement in conversions and it has at least cut out 50% of the cart abandonment. I know every bit of code in the checkout process. All that matters with any cart is how well it converts, not all the bells and whistles. The average customer at least in my experience finds the address steps of Prestashop cumbersome at best. It is obvious in the logs and watching them in Livezilla when they register to checkout. It is definitely not an intuitive process and needs to be improved out of the box to make registration/adding/choosing addresses a breeze. It is definitely not as it is....
  14. It is my opinion that the biggest flaw with Prestashop is how customer Addresses are managed and handled. I have had more registered users stop orders at the Address step than any other step. Does anyone else find this to be true? It is far from intuitive for the average online shopper. I hope the prestateam takes a strong look at address management in future versions!
  15. Make sure you set the Default country in the back office. You can also edit the authentication.tpl form to change the country setting so it automatically selects UK when they go to checkout.
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