Tom Dalton · Owner · Gold Medal

A package that is as expensive as Netsuite is and that claims to be as devoted to ecommerce as Netsuite does SIMPLY CANNOT IGNORE BASIC FUNCTIONALITY. Another example is the ability to see a report of what terms people searched for when using the in-site web-store product search tool. That report is FREE at yahoo-store and…

Julian & Tom, The following is not an optimal solution but it might work for you. Both Google and Yahoo support CSV formats for Sitemap. CSV is not optimal because you cannot specify priority, update interval or last edit date. Priority is the only one important to me and that is simply a "suggested" flag in the event of a…

I learned something today that was messing up our NetSuite SEO. At "Setup > Web Site Setup" .... then the area marked "Search Engine Optimization" in the "set-up tab" ...it has an area that says "meta tag HTML". We mistakenly used that area. That area is not to be used IMHO. We entered: <meta name="description"…

I am happy (on the basis that I seem to have no option) to buy, beg, borrow or steal a third party product to do this. Can anyone recommend a product that is capable of dealing with Netsuite's idiosyncracies? We need to keep pushing for automated sitemaps (like Yahoo store has). NS saves us some time in SOME areas ....but…

OK, I'll go first. Yahoo Store. Averaged 5,400 page views per day (in 2004). Was spending about $1,200/month in PPC. NetSuite Store. Averaged 3,300 page views per day in recent Google analytics report. We are spending about $2,500/month in PPC. -Tom PS: I don't rule out external factors like new competition and/or the…

Where are you uploading the sitemap into NS? Upload it into whatever directory (in the file cabinet) you have specified for your hosting root. Tom

On point TWO, I believe that NS only creates the descriptive item names once (either when you create a new item or when you run the utility to convert your non-descriptive names to descriptive names). NS really needs to concentrate on SEO. We did MUCH better in our organic listing results at our YAHOO STORE and we had the…

I figured it out. The data flowed from NS and into our product feeds. NetSuite doesn't shorten the "description" feed field when exporting a feeds. In NS you can make the descriptions 4 or 5 hundred characters long...but not in the feeds. We open them in Excel and the description field is shown as ########## because it is…

WE are still nowhere on Google and miles behind our competitors. Welcome to NetSuite. We use CoffeCup's sitmapper. http://www.coffeecup.com/google-sitemapper/ you have to know some arcane knowledge about including ".nl" files and filtering page that end in "empty" (or something like that). I'm not at work right now, so I…

It happened again TODAY and this time it was in "Shopping.com".

Did you update your sitemap to match your new descriptive URLs? Unlike most budget ecommerce programs, in NS you will need to manually generate a sitemap using 3rd party software and then manually upload the Google sitemap into NS. T

Does anyone know if ourdomain.com/catalog/magic-tricks/children-magic-tricks will perform better or worse than ourdomain.com/children-magic-tricks in other words, should we not have chose to show tab/category's in the URLs? One problem with tab/category's in the URL is that you are forced into changing the URL every time…

Also Kent, YOUR web page http://www.novatech-usa.com/Products/Thermistor-YSI-400-Probes/WD-93824-12 also has an identical copy at... http://www.novatech-usa.com/WD-93824-12 This is from a different post that I put in another thread.... I just spidered our site and we had sever HUNDRED URLs with jsessionid garbage on the…

You can edit the Product Feed to send either image. Just edit the search and choose either the Image URL or the Thumbnail URL. I meant the ability to specify on a item by item basis. For us, about 80% of our items have a useable "main image" and about 20% of them would need to use their thumbnail image. Not a big deal…

I get a bunch with ";jsessionid=..." in our site's URLs when I try to spider our site when attempting to make our Google sitemap. I use Mac, so I am using "Google Sitemap Automator" by "RAGE Software". Sure would be easier if NS's system would just automatically make these. -Tom

I don't know Baruch, we manage 4 different feeds and we were forced to manage them outside of NS. We added a LOT of missing fields like "condition", brand, expiration date, product type, "tax region" etc. and we did a LOT of HTML "<b></B>" tag removal. The only way the NS version would be useful is if we can click "export"…

The product feeds in NS are very poor. They don't strip out the HTML like the "<b>" and "</b>" from product descriptions. They don't send the feeds directly to those sites (many of them offer ftp uploads). They don't let you pick which picture to include in the feed (thumbnail -vs- main picture). They don't have all of the…

The cheap e-commerce package CityMax, even has Google Sitemaps. Why does NS have to be the last e-commerce provider to add automated Google Sitemaps? NS, could you just add something like this program to your servers... http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html

Does Netsuite have a roadmap for addressing these issues? Thanks Bill Don't hold your breath. They don't appear to have any urgency to fix the problems and shortcomings in this area. They give it the old "add your name to the issue/enhancement" line. Not only are they WAY behind the cheaper e-commerce packages (no…

No, our software does NOT allow us to enter an "agent name". Tom PS: Please add automated Google sitemaps

Can anyone recommend a company that helps web merchants increase their "natural listing" rankings in Google? I do a lot (like google sitemaps and meta tags), but I don't have time to work on it anymore and we still have a LOT of room for improvement. -Tom

It is a manual process. You create it (either manually or with a tool like coffeecup sitemapper) and then you upload it into the folder in your "file cabinet" that you have set as your "root directory". It needs to be updated frequently and it would be nice if NS would AUTOMATICALLY create all of our sitemaps for us (like…

Add a google and yahoo sitemap to your NS web site.

Julian, email me the set-up. I didn't list any of the downloadable site crawling programs at... http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html for a reason. I'm was making a point about all of the alternatives to downloadable site crawling solutions. There are a lot of resources available for NS to add auto-sitemaps to the NS…

Yahoo! has integrated Sitemaps into Y! Merchant stores. Yahoo! merchants can automatically create a Sitemap file for their stores and share information about their site with Google and other search engines to improve their visibility online and their Sitemaps are dynamically updated for them as they make changes to their…

Julian I tried A1 Sitemap Generator again today. It scans our site and finds tons of files that we don't want in our sitemap. I filtered some of them. I notice that it has two versions of every page. It has a version with a "/" on the end and one without. How did you filter out URLs that end in "/"? Our A1 set-up will…

Shawn, how has http://www.verticalmeasures.com worked out?

No recommendations for a SEO company (yet). I could pick one randomly after looking at some online, but that is like playing roulette. I'm still looking for one with some positive references. T

Rage Sitemap Automator seems to work if you set the max simultaneous connections to 2. The only issue I have is that it adds a / to the end of every URL that doesn't end in jpg or html or some ending that is recognized as a "real URL" by the software. T

netsuite needs to create a automatic sitemap file that is created daily. the most basic of e-commerce platforms do this at no cost. I agree. Add your name to Enhancement 109212 if you want that feature in NetSuite.