Thanks

Good job on the first steps toward making your site unique in the category area. If I might suggest, break each of your categories into deeper subcategories as well. For example, the “Quilt Hangers” category, could have 10 subcategories in the same parent number (3111) but be named for very specific long tail terms like: “Wall hangers for Quilts”, “Wrought iron quilt hangers”, “Wooden quilt hangers” etc etc… Use a good keyphrase tool like wordtracker or some other tool to discover the long tail phrases that will make the site an instant success!

In regard to the logo… you have it named “Logo.jpg” just change it to lower case – “logo.jpg” and it should work fine.

One way or another – you will find it gets easier with each new site and you will be very pleased with the results!

Mark

My question is: I tried to customize so I could use multiple categories/sub-categories under the sewing/quilting categories but I couldn’t get it to work, so I just did the easy way, but only the quilting 3111 showed up.

Also, I have tried again and again to upload my logo. I was told to save it as jpg and re-upload it. I did, but it is still not there.

Since you are our BANS genious, can you help me please.

Thank you so much. I want to do a number of sites, but it has to get easier than this I hope.

Thank you.

I just signed up for one of the BANS stores and I admit to being hornswoggled by the complexity. I barely know any basic html.

Just reading this one entry allowed me to take a deep breath and think “okay, I can do this — I didn’t make a big mistake” — it will take alot longer than I thought initially, but just knowing you and your site are here really helped lower my blood pressure. :-)

I am looking forward to learning more — and seeing your videos — that kind of visual, step by step, hands-on approach works really well for me and I just want to say thank you, thank you so much!

You can do this on an existing store – but if it is already indexed by search engines, you dont want to change the filename setting within the admin. You can make any additional changes to optimize the categories though. (Keywords, description etc)

In regard to adding categories back into the database, I know Adam has helped many people do just that! It is however a manual process within the mysqladmin utility.

Mark

I’m reviewing what I’ve done (and haven’t done) on sites that I’ve already created.

My question is can I change the directory structure on a site that I’ve already created, or is it too late? (I deleted many categories that I now know I shouldn’t have after reading this tutorial).

If I can, do I simply go to set-up and select a new category? (I deleted the parent category and chose several child categories below it)

Thanks again for all you are doing for us users…
Pat

You must be a mind reader :-)

I plan on revisiting both Part 1 AND part 2 in much more detail over the next day or two.

It can be a challenging task…

I will try to clear it up with video.

Mark