SearchFit Ecommerce Shopping Cart v8.0 will Launch in Early July
After months of hard work, we are happy to report that SearchFit v8.0 will launch in early July!
Equip your ecommerce website with features that will improve your conversion rate, search engine ranking and operational efficiency. The best way to get your questions answered about SearchFit is to contact us today: 1-888-398-4703. We can explain in detail how SearchFit can be used with your website. If you are new to SearchFit, you couldn’t have arrived at a better time. You’ve stumbled upon our biggest version upgrade ever. SearchFit has been around for over five years with new versions continually being released. The core features that have been around since version 1.0 include search engine optimization tools, ability to sell in any language and currency and the ability to publish multiple stores from the same control panel / product database. The flexibility of the template system is another capability that our customers love.
You should find features in SearchFit version 8.0, like the automated Google Base feed, that provide an instant benefit to your business. Existing customers have provided us with great insight into what features are most important to increase traffic and conversion rate. From search engine optimization, to pay-per-click to comparison shopping engines, SearchFit offers the tools you need to accomplish your marketing strategy with maximum cost efficiency.
What’s New in SearchFit V8.0?
New User Interface
It’s easy to find what you need in the new SearchFit User interface. Screens and work flow processes are logically grouped to separate content from presentation. Aside from the structure, other helpful changes included switching to an icon-based interface, Ajax panels that allow quick changes, a “shortcut menu” that allows you to define your own navigation and much more!
Product Filters
Your customers will find exactly what they want in record time using Product Filters. They will be able to navigate your site based on an alternate navigation system that lets them view only products that have a combination of the desired attributes. For example, your customer will select the size, color and material they want and your website will automatically display only products that meet that criteria. Product filters are a great way to boost your conversion rate!
Compare Products
Give your customers an easy way to view the products they like side-by-side. They will more easily identify the differences between products and find the information they need to make a buying decision. It works by allowing customers to check a check box on each product they would like to compare, then clicking “compare” when ready. Products are displayed horizontally in a dynamic panel that easily allows customers to return to your product page when finished. Customize the panel by selecting what types of information will be shown to your customer.
SEO Naming Rules
Improve the quality of your website’s search engine optimization and reduce the time required for setup and maintenance. SEO Naming Rules allow you to set rules for a large number of items related to SEO including metatags, page names, image names and more throughout each section of your website. For example, you can make a rule that says “name all product page URL’s according to the product name and category name”. Other types of pages you can set naming rules for include categories, category types, custom pages and more! You will feel like you are giving a quick SEO tune-up to your website instead of monotonously going through each page and adding your key phrases thousands of times to each different area.
SEO Site Structure
View a diagram of your site structure that displays the products per category and categories per category type. Having a site structure diagram is great for many uses, like planning new sections of your site and your initial site structure. The SEO benefit of the diagram is that it gives you a quick idea of the weight of the key phrases on your website. Your key phrases should be contained within your category and category type names. Your most important key phrases should have the most categories and products. You don’t want to have a website whose product and category structure consists mostly of phrases that you are not interested in ranking for in search engines. Inspect the chart to make sure your site structure is in harmony with your SEO strategy.
Improved SEO Flexibility
As always, you will find new ways to better your search engine optimization with each release of SearchFit. SearchFit’s core strength is search engine optimization. The upcoming release includes the ability to change product properties like name, description, webpage name, etc, of those products that are duplicated into multiple categories (aka “product links”). The benefit of this is to allow you to optimize each copy of the product according to its parent category and avoid search engine penalties from having too much duplicated content.
Built-In Analytics
Get important stats directly from your website with no third-party software to install. Information presented includes an overview of your “Hits”, “Search Terms” and “Income”. A concise summary of all the information that is the most important for online business is presented. Data is combined in such a way to give you the statistics that most affect your bottom line. For example, you can view your conversion rate, search terms with highest conversion rate and average income per visit.
Built-In AdWords Reports
This is a valuable tool which is initially available only to those customers who use our pay-per-click management services. Finally, you will have a report that shows important stats about your campaigns, ad groups and headlines as compared to the cost price of your products. Once setup, you will be able to quickly see how much money you are making without looking at 3 different applications and making a huge number of calculations. You are able to view adjusted figures for ROI, CPA and Profit that account for the cost price of your products. We felt the pain previously involved in gathering this data, so we are happy to offer this great solution to our customers. Of course, the standard statistics are also displayed such as impressions, clicks, CTR, CPC, orders, conversion rate, advertising cost and more.
Automated Google Analytics Installation
Enjoy a vast amount of useful information about your website created by Google Analytics. This free, third-party application is packed with a huge amount of reports related to your visitors, traffic, sales, conversion rate, etc. There is a large online community supporting Google Analytics, but some installation details remain complicated and time consuming. This is especially true when you are tracking multiple stores. You will now be able to simply enter your Analytics Tracking Code into a single field and let SearchFit do all the setup work. This includes very useful options like ecommerce tracking, funnel goals on checkout and tracking multiple websites under the same account.
Automated Google Base Feed Creation and Delivery
Sell your products in other channels! Get your products listed in Google Search Results and Google Products for free. Google Products is the Google Comparison Shopping Engine. Use SearchFit to automatically build a Google Base Feed from your existing product data. Next, use SearchFit to deliver an updated Google Base Feed at a specified interval. This will allow you to add your products to Google Base in a minimal amount of time. Enjoy this huge time-saving feature that can provide an immediate boost to your traffic and revenue.
QuickBooks Integration
Perform accounting and order management tasks faster than ever with the ability to integrate your SearchFit order data with the QuickBooks accounting application. Automatically create QuickBooks invoices based upon your SearchFit order data. Take advantage of all the features of the most popular accounting software and streamline your operations.
Product Reviews
We are happy to say that the product reviews feature is near completion and will be released in either v8.0 or 8.1. Benefit from an increased conversion rate and a more engaging shopping experience for your customers by adding product reviews to your website. This includes the ability to add an average rating of one to five stars per product based on customer reviews. Your detailed product pages will show a summary of your reviews. Customers can view reviews, add reviews and make comments on reviews. Keep your customers contributing to reviews by giving the special statuses/icons like “Approved Reviewer”, “Purchaser of Product”, “Purchased from Store”. An in-depth user interface is available for you to set review & comment permissions and approve or reject reviews & comments. Turn your ecommerce website into a community that offers valuable product information!
June 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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