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Monthly Archives: June 2016

Xtento Two-Factor Authentication for Magento 2 and 1

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

Xtento Two-Factor Authentication Magento 2 Extension Review; Xtento Two-Factor Authentication Magento Module Overview

If you are looking for the most efficient way to protect your Magento 2 or Magento 1 admin from unauthorized logins and fraudsters, then you’ve come to the right place: below, we describe how to achieve this goal with the help of the Two-Factor Authentication Magento 2 and 1 extension by Xtento. After installing the module, you will no longer have to fear that someone could log into your ecommerce store admin and steal order, customer, and other sensitive data. In the following post, we show how it is possible.  Continue Reading

Bencher – Responsive Magento 2 Theme

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Bencher Magento 2 Theme Review; Bencher Magento 2 Template Overview

Yesterday, we’ve reviewed Furnicom – a Magento 2 theme designed for furniture ecommerce stores, and now we’d like to draw your attention to a multipurpose solution called Bencher. Being a premium responsive Magento 2 theme, it offers highly customizable admin settings that let you fine tune the template according to virtually all ecommerce requirements. Therefore, Bencher is suitable for every type of a custom online storefront project. Below, we shed light on the theme’s core elements and features. Continue Reading

Furnicom Magento 2 Theme Review

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Furnicom Magento 2 Theme Review; Furnicom Magento 2 Template Overview

Another Magento 2 theme we are going to draw your attention to is Furnicom. It is a modern and professional solution aimed at online furniture shops and interior stores. Like Sawyer, Furnicom comes with 5 homepage layouts and tons of useful features. Below, we describe its core elements (homepage, category and product pages, cart, and checkout) and shed light on main features. Continue Reading

Sawyer – Multipurpose Responsive Magento 2 Theme

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Sawyer Magento 2 Theme Review; Sawyer Magento 2 Template Overview

Several new Magento 2 templates and themes are available on the ThemeForest website, so we are going to review the newcomers. And the first one to be reviewed is Sawyer – a responsive Magento 2 theme that includes 5 unique homepage layouts and different color styles – enough to choose a unique appearance for your ecommerce storefront. Since the theme is multipurpose, it ideally suits to anything from clothes to electronics, transforming a boring website into a dynamic storefront optimized for top-notch shopping experience. Below, we will introduce you to the theme’s core features and elements (home, catalog, and product pages, cart, and checkout). Continue Reading

MageWorx Sitemap Suite Extension For Magento 2 and 1

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

MAgento 2 sitemap extension

To improve search engine indexation and user navigation on a Magento web store, ecommerce merchants should think about using HTML and XML sitemaps tools, since default Magento platform does not provide sufficient functionality for this. That шы why another Magento extension we are going to describe today is MageWorx Sitemap Suite.

The MageWorx Sitemap Suite Magento 2 toolkit provides merchants with everything they need to create advanced fully-optimised HTML and XML sitemaps. The module is designed to improve user experience by creating a snapshot of all your website links in the form of a Magento 2 HTML sitemap. It means that HTML sitemap will collect all your website links in a table of contents on one page, providing visitors with a comprehensive overview of your site layout. As a result, your store visitors get better navigation through your ecommerce website structure and can reach the pages they need faster.

Besides, you can help search engines, which do not understand HTML sitemaps, better crawl and index your store pages with the Magento 2 XML sitemap. Since XML sitemap includes files with all URLs on your web store that need to be indexed in search engines, Google will faster identify important information about relevant pages and their updates. Thus, with the extension, you significantly improve search engine indexation and your website’s SEO in the long term. Moreover, the MageWorx sitemap module is fully compliant with all Google requirements.

It is also necessary to mention that MageWorx Sitemap Suite not only provides the following opportunities, but adds a lot of advanced settings to the default sitemap creation process, and below we shed light on them.

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MageWorx Cross Links Extension For Magento 2 and 1

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

The MageWorx Cross Links extension is designed to optimise a current internal store linking structure. The tool lets you save tons of time by eliminating manual work related to adding links to each page of your website. Instead, it automatically replaces keywords or keyword phrases with links to both internal pages or external sources. Thus, you get a perfect opportunity to connect keywords to the product, category, or CMS pages, as well as link them by categories or products. Links connecting thematically relevant site pages drastically improve user experience on an online store, providing customers with enhanced store navigation. When you link your store pages to related websites, you can gain more trust from your web store visitors ensuring them that your store is associated with reliable web sources. Besides that, the well-organised internal linking structure is a must-have to make an online shop search engine friendly. As a result, you drive more traffic to your website promoted pages and evenly distribute page authority and ranking power throughout the site. Besides, you do not have to worry about conflicts that may occur during the cross-linking process, since the MageWorx Magento 2 Cross Links module offers advanced priority settings. Sounds great, so let’s look at the extension’s features in more details.
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MageWorx Extended Rich Snippets For Magento 2 and 1

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

magento 2 rich snippets extension

Using Rich Snippets on an ecommerce website drastically improves how products, categories, and store info details look in search results and social media feeds. Below, we would like to introduce you to the Extended Rich Snippets extension by MageWorx. With the help of this tool, you will be able to make your store pages better looking and more eye-catching among other search results, consequently increasing your current click-through rate. Thus, your website pages will become notable in Google with images, prices, ratings, SKU, and other details, and generate more targeted traffic. Besides, this Magento 2 rich snippets extension is responsible for adding additional visibility via the social media markups implementation. Using this feature, you can make your posts look more attractive and informative on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. Since specialists consider increased click-through rates and search traffic as ranking signals, rich snippets will add SEO improvements to your Magento website in the long term.

Let’s have a look at the extension’s core features and backend configuration.

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Ultimate List of Online Marketing Tools

- E-Commerce

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Online Marketing Tools

When it comes to choosing the most appropriate tool for your E-Commerce business, things get really confusing. It all starts with determining what actual marketing activity you need to currently implement. Then you should check whether you have some spare budget to use exclusive paid tools. Finally, you might also need to look for potential alternatives to make sure you’re going to use the most suitable solution. However, there are still so many tools on the web, some of which cover specific tasks while others are ultimate packages of various tools that you might need at every step of your marketing campaign.

MageWorx SEO Meta Templates For Magento 2 and 1

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

magento meta tag template

Although Mageworx offers a robust SEO tool, SEO Suite Ultimate, there is a less complex solution available on the company’s website – SEO Meta Templates.

The extension allows generating advanced SEO templates for optimisation of large meta data set, as well as product and category descriptions. By optimising essential meta elements, search engines understand your product or category pages better, thus improving your website SEO ranking and click-through rates. The SEO Meta Templates extension enables users to create different types of SEO templates depending on which attributes you want to use, that make your web store pages search engine friendly and more informative. Meta templates is a practical solution for ecommerce businesses of any size that helps merchants to produce unique SEO meta data for any of their website pages.

Below, we shed light on this Magento meta tag template extension describing its core features and backend interface. More Magento SEO tools and tips are available here: Ultimate Guide to Magento SEO; Magento 2 SEO (out-of-the-box features, extensions, tips); and Best Magento SEO Extensions 2016.
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