Posts Tagged ‘storeblox’

Custom URLs

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

For those of you that really like to tweak your search engine indexing performance, storeBlox 2 now offers custom URL management for products. storeBlox has long had the capability of automatically generating keyword-based URLs derived from each product name. However, many of you would like to add keywords to the URL that you wouldn’t normally include in a product name.

Now, this is as simple as entering the segment of the URL path in webBlox:

Custom SEO URL Management in webBlox

Custom SEO URL Management in webBlox

Contact us with questions on implementing this feature.

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eBlox launches Mondo Tees

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Mondo Tees homepageWe’re proud to announce the launch of Mondo Tees, a consumer e-commerce website specializing in movie-related apparel, posters, DVDs and collectibles.

Mondo Tees is operated by the fine folks at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, another great Austin company.

Mondotees.com showcases two great strengths of storeBlox: Complete design customization and apparel management. eBlox also built a JavaScript-based dynamic image slider for the homepage that loads thumbnails for all the products in the site and then allows a visitor to quickly scroll through them.

eBlox also developed custom listing styles for categories and searches, and used the storeBlox Banner Management system for rotation of header images on every page load.

The result? A dynamic, appealing merchandise site with a lot of visual “wow!” Check it out!

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Announcing Keyword-optimized URLs

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

eBlox is currently in the testing phase of an important upgrade for our storeBlox e-commerce platform customers: Keyword-optimized URLs. What the heck is that? Well, a keyword optimized URL is structured in such a way that the product keywords are actually part of the URL itself. Here’s a comparison:

Standard URL:
http://storeblox2.eblox.com/product.jsp?id=6329

Optimized URL:
http://storeblox2.eblox.com/pl/Ace-Sport-Shoe-Bag/6329

As you can see, the latter URL contains keywords, which benefits the page in search engine relevance. Best of all, these URLs are generated automatically based on product names, so there’s no effort required to implement them.

eBlox continues to develop and deploy best-practice technologies for SEO and e-commerce, and we’ll be rolling this upgrade out free of charge to all customers over the coming month.

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Revamped, redesigned Corvest websites launched

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Toppers home pageWe’re pleased to announce the re-launch of Toppers, Advalite, It’s All Greek to Me and Corvest. All sites include some pretty amazing features:

  • Online ordering for both distributors and end customers – end customer orders are routed automatically to distributors
  • Real-time inventory
  • Extensive distributor tools
  • Cross-brand display of all products
  • Solutions-based product navigation (using filters)
  • Lots of embedded multimedia (check out instructions on using filters for embedded media here)

Announcement and success story coming shortly to the eBlox site.

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Swap out product configuration images dynamically

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

storeBlox 2 now offers the ability to swap out the main product image when a user mouses over a thumbnail, so that all product colors or variations can be viewed as quickly as a user can move their mouse.

For products with many colors or styles, this feature gives your customers instant access to all the variations available for a product without requiring a time-consuming page refresh or opening and closing a popup window.

Best of all, this preserves the “Larger Image” feature, so a user can still click on a thumbnail to view a full-resolution image of each variation.

Click here to see the feature in action. If you’d like to start using this feature, please contact us and we’ll set it up for you.

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From the storeBlox Newsletter: Embedded Multimedia

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Last month, we added embedded media support to Banner Management. You can now embed multimedia files in any banner location on your site and manage them like you would any other banner.

To switch a banner to embedded media on a current storeBlox 2 site, just click the “Embedded” radio button and paste the code into the embedded box.

storeBox Banner Management screen shot

(If you’re creating your own Flash files, just use the Publish function and it will create the embed code for you. If you use a service like YouTube, the embed code can be copied from there.)

If the media file exists on a server somewhere (such as a YouTube video), you’re done. If you produced the media yourself, you’ll need to upload it to your FTP space. Make sure the links in your embed code refer to the correct URL for the file. That’s it!

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Welcome to the eBlox blog

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Well have a variety of posts here about industry trends, technology and new sites and projects we’re working on. We also plan on posting tips on using our storeBlox e-commerce platform, which is available for both promotional products and apparel distributors and suppliers.

Right now we’re deep in new projects and launches. We’ve got a lot of exciting stuff to talk about, including recent launches like Watermark Graphics and 2CoolPromos. Check those sites out when you get a chance, and always check back at our main site for news and press releases.

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