How to Relocate Your Small Business Without Losing Visibility

Local SEO

If you are a local business, chances are that you’ll move to another location. If you do, moving itself isn’t an easy task by itself. Further, it brings in other problems you may or may not have foreseen. Moving locations affects your citations, Google+ local page, and can be a potential SEO nightmare.

As if SEO wasn’t hard enough, moving brings a host of new problems related to SEO. As E A Quinn of Read Below the Fold points out, moving causes address inconsistency, which in turn causes:

  • Drop in rankings
  • Duplicate listings appearing in the search results
  • Incorrect listings appearing in the business listing sites like Internet yellow pages or local search engines
  • Drop in authority caused by duplicate listings diluting your presence in local search results

Here’s what you need to do when you decide to move, or if you’ve already moved to ensure that your SEO efforts don’t go abortive:

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Creating Custom Homepage Template and Magento

Banner Blog

We have requested to create custom homepage template for Magento site. It is also really useful to give different look and feel of static pages of Magento site.

The most of Magento Websites you will come across the homepage is normally a different type of layout to the rest of your pages. Magento by default does cover this quite well by different templates like 1 column, 2 columns left 2 columns right, 3 columns etc…

So most of the designer chooses to have 1 column for homepage and the 2 columns left for all your inner pages depending on design. But in our case product page is also a 1 column layout. Also Homepage template has a load of customisations like sliders, featured products etc.

In this article, we will learn how to create custom homepage template and other CMS pages templates in Magento and we’ll look at the rendering of layout files.

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