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Maybe it's about the search intention. I recently heard something like that: When google understands/believs, that the user want's to buy something, you can only rank with a shop site (category or product site for example). If google understands, that 99% don't want to buy anything, then you wan't rank with a shop site. With shop site I don't mean the domain, but the art of the site (cart buttons & stuff). I really don't know, if this is true. It's surely not as strict, as this guy told me. But it's sounds somehow logical to me.

That's normal. Our customer don't link us too. Or at least 99% of them won't like us. But in the example above, I will search for backgammon federations and clubs. I will write them, that we have made content about backgammon and asking for a link. I take time to write this things. I always write personal. Make custom compliments for their website and so on. You are right. It's really hard to get quality backlinks. Still for your competitiors it's not easier. So in a niche you don't have to have hundreds of links. Is it your first project? Then all is even harder. When you have done some projects in the past, you can get link from there, use the expierence and the contacts. Really most important is: Never give up. What is your website?

I really have to disagree with you @nickon and @MockoB. We have really good google rankings with in some niches. It was already good with ps. The time when SEO was a technical thing is over. Sure you have to follow the most important guidelines. But nowdays you get the rankings with great content. If you have valuable content for your customers, you will rank well. If you don't rank, these could be the reasons: - Give Google time. I always calculate with one year, till I expect good rankings. It's depending on the niche of course. - You have no quality links. Links are still important. They can boost a lot. - Your content is not as good as you think. It's very important to understand the user intention. Take them as early on their customer journey. Let me show you an example from our latest project: https://www.spielezar.ch/blog/spielregeln/backgammon-spielregeln We sell boardgames, but this article does just explain the rules of backgammon. Nothing else. We invest a lot of time, to write better articles than the competitors. Put nice pictures in it. Look for good internal linking. Will this raise our conversion rate? Surely not. It goes down. 99% of the visitors of this tutorial won't buy anyting. 90% of the readers even leave the page immediately after they found their needed information. Still all these articles are making our business working. People get to know our brand. You generate trust. Google understands, that we are an authority in boardgames. It will not only help us to rank for "backgammon rules" also in general. You can hope for some links with such content. In short: your revenue will go up! This shop is only online for 6 months. The rankings are still modest. But we have already overtaken some five year old competitors in google. This guys are on magento. But that doesn't matter. They could be on ps or tb or whatever. They don't have any great content.

As far as I remember, I did change it from grid to list :D It's really long ago, but I am quite sure, that I had to change the global.js file. So it's theme related...

How old is your site? How old are the sites of your competitors? In our case category sites are much more important than product pages, so my focus is there. Does your site rank well in general (not product pages)? Better than the competitors?

If you are interested in the "blog thing". You should google about "Content Marketing". I believe a lot in it. If you are been able to write reasonable content, you can also start to ask for blog post. This is a secure way to get backlinks. But of course you have to invest a lot of time ;)

@alwayspaws said in Specific language categories only for speakers of those languages: I don't know what PS did for foreign language speakers, but since we have several languages available now, I was trying to encourage someone new and put a comment in one of the language subcategories. I just deleted it. The user saw it and thanked me and that's enough. Apparently, I should stick with English, so it's now up to the other foreign language speakers to offer encouragement to newer users in their own languages. Thanks for your understanding. Thanks for your work. You are doing a great job. In the german section we luckily have some experienced members as Traumflug, Elezar and Me. Netherland should also be good. Not sure about the other languages.

Today there a new blogpost about the future was published: https://thirtybees.com/blog/thirty-bees-in-the-future/ This ideas will come earliest in the version 1.1, maybe also later. I don't think there is already anybody assigned.

You could try to activate the "profiling" setting. It will give you a lot of information, what makes your site slow. Is it the same for front and backoffice?

https://thirtybees.com/suggestions/multiple-features-values/ back in january... It's already "approved" :yum:

@marci123 Ja es gibt schon einige Shops im Live Einsatz. All unsere Shops laufen auf thirtybees. Hier ein Beispiel: www.spielezar.ch

@alwayspaws said in What to use to put paragraph of text between menu and products?: @wakabayashi Where have you been? I was just 2 weeks away (chess camp with kids). Also I have a lot to do with our business, but of course I am still part of tb - don't worry :)

I have pushed it now over the funding goal :)

What do you mean with an "online manual"?

I would clearly chose div. But I a not aware the newest trends with all this tags. I stronlgy doubt that you should use instead of div. Nav is only for navigations.

There are modules, which allow you, to place content easily to specific hooks. A long time ago I bought a module for this. But I heard, that this free one is good as well: https://contentbox.org/ Another solution would be, to change tpl files.

Thx for your tests. Then there are still some problems. Never could have imagine that favicons can be that much complicate...

https://www.spielezar.ch https://www.chesspoint.ch They should have different icons. What do you see?

It seems that this project is the favourite of most merchants (https://thirtybees.com/blog/crowdfunding-modules/). @lesley when will the official founding campaing launch?

@spidawebs said in Supply order management: plus the ability to be able to track stock coming in and out and an easy way to see the movement history. Yes! Forgot that one. It's very important for all merchants.

Yeah I can understand that, but most business here are probably too small for it. So many people are on a cheap shared hoster. I just wanna say, that thirty bees needs to have better inbuilt function in this area. Of course it doesn't have to be as advanced as such as service. But correct stock management is a must. Also we should think about an alert system for low stocks.

@lesley said in Prices Drop & Best Sales SEO Links - Value?: @dprophitjr I was actually talking about something different. Most of our clients do not like the stock generated pages for those two pages. They like creating categories where they can associate what they want seen on those pages. That is why we redirect them. Sometimes bestsellers are not really what sells best, it might be what a shop wants to move most. Same with the specials. That is why we do them that way normally. Interesting! We did that too, for some time. But in general we don't work a lot with special prices.

@Briljander said in Supply order management: @wakabayashi Do you mean Webincolor or Modulebuddy? Support is important so I can't rely on a module that has people that takes 2 weeks two answer if they answer at all. Webincolor! @spidawebs Nice service! Didn't know them before. But yeah it's quite expensive for small businesses :(

I have had bad expierence with this module developer too. Bought once a module from then. Some weeks lather I complaint, that it's not multistore ready. Got an answer like: "we will launch a new module in some days. This will be multistore ready. So you have to buy this one."

I think this is a weakness of our ecommerce system. I don't know any good solution tbh. I hope we can improve this in future.