You can find the updated versions of the extensions on the Ultimate SEO Suite, Blog – Community Edition and Blog – Enterprise Edition pages.

URL rewriting is one of the ways how you can optimize your site for search engines. As you know, the feature of SEO-friendly URLs has been already implemented in our Product Questions v.1.3, but it was greatly improved in the just released minor version.

Now, if you enable the URL rewrite option, the “-question” will be added to the product page link, e.g. http:// example.com/cell-phones/nokia-questions.html. It looks more friendly for search engines and memorable for your store visitors, isn’t it?

You can look how this new option works in our demo on the Product Questions page.

If your site has similar or even identical content accessible through multiple URLs, it can be defined as duplicate content. Search engines penalize such websites by clearing them up. To avoid such unwanted problem, use the Ultimate SEO Suite extension which adds a small piece of code (i.e. canonical links) to the head of each product page. Thus search engines will know the preferred URL that the duplicate content refers to.

Duplicate content is one of the biggest headaches for every SEO expert. Even if there are two different URLs for one page, the search engine is never definite which page to show on this or that keyword, which page to give the PageRank to, and which page to consider as the main. Eventually, it divides the authority and page rank on its own what makes the page you are trying to promote far enough in the search listings.

Identical content can seriously hurt your website page rankings, but using the Ultimate SEO Suite extension you can reduce the amount of duplication. When crawling and indexing your site, search engines adopt canonical URLs and single out the main among the duplicate pages. In other words, if there are two different URLs for one page, a canonical tag implemented by the extension tells the robots which page it should promote. This gives you more control over the URL returned in search results.

You don’t have to optimize the functionality of your website, eliminate self-created duplicate content, or change the code – just use the power of canonization.

With the Ultimate SEO Suite extension you get:

• Canonical URL at the head section of the product page
  The extension adds rel=”canonical” URL’s to the head of your product pages what allows search engines to avoid crawling the same page more than once.
• Canonical URLs in sitemap
  The usage of canonical URLs in your sitemap is the best insurance that the pages you want will be found and indexed by search engines bots.
• Canonical URLs in Google sitemap
  Submit automatically generated canonical URLs to Google – allow this search engine to crawl and index your site more intelligently.

 



 

• Ability to split Google sitemap
  Google accepts only up to 50’000 URLs per sitemap or a file size of 10MB – rather inconvenient for large websites. The Ultimate SEO Suite extension allows you to split your sitemap into smaller more manageable files that get approved by Google.
• Google sitemap images support
  If you allow including images in your sitemap, Google indexes these images and adds them to the image search attracting more traffic to your site.

 



 

• Auto-change to canonical URLs
  The extension automatically replaces short product URLs with canonical URLs all over the store. You can either leave default categories used in the canonical URL or easily change them for every product.

 



 

• Complete multi-store support
  Don’t worry if you are running a multistore – with this aheadWorks extension you can easily set different canonical links for every product for each store view.

Please, find more information on the Ultimate SEO Suite page.

Note: the extension is compatible with Enterprise Edition 1.8 and Community Edition 1.4.1.0

We have found this idea really valuable and decided to give Magento-based store owners an opportunity to use it on their sites. We have thoroughly learnt this way of information presentation and come to the conclusion that video testimonials should serve several purposes at once:

1. Product demonstration
Item introductions bring items to life. It is the key element while selling your products as it demonstrates their capabilities and the best features. One video can easily replace or supplement the many-lines description as it possesses the strong effect of visualization clarity.

2. Service demonstration
A video is an effective way of demonstrating the service your company provides. A creative, vivid, truly absorbing promo video influences watchers’ emotions (and – as consequence – decisions) much stronger than verbal description. It has been well said, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

3. Express customers’ impressions
Testimonials are quotations from satisfied customers and clients. Let people tell of their experience with your products and post their own video testimonials for the others to see. Potential customers are really interested about already-triers’ experience.

4. Promote your store in YouTube
YouTube is one of the biggest and most popular video-sharing sites on the web. A possibility to make video from your site available on YouTube as well means the constant flow of new-comers to your store – people will search video clips and come across you and your site.

5. Increase sales
Whether you upload video introductions by yourself or allow your customers to do it, the “WOW” factor produces an indelible impression on prospective customers, makes your site memorable and sets you apart from the competition.

Having analyzed the information collected and singled out the key features required, we implemented them in the newly released Video Testimonials extension.

If you want to know how all the above-mentioned goals can be achieved with this aheadWorks module, please visit the Video Testimonials page where you can read detailed description, watch screenshots and try how the extension works as if it had been installed on your store.

Since version 2.1 AJAX Cart Pro has expanded its “sphere of activity” – now this aheadWorks extension works on the Compare Products and Wishlist pages as well. Thus having compared products or having gone to the My Wishlist page, customers can add appealing items to cart and avoid additional pages loading.

Moreover, a minor bug has been fixed and now downloadable products are added correctly on Shopping Cart page.

Please, find the latest version of AJAX Cart Pro on the extension page.

With the Video Testimonials extension both you and your customers can easily upload video from your computer or YouTube exactly on the product page. Provide your store with additional video and audio information – product demonstrations, services supplied, sales promotions etc., and let your customers share their impressions of the items bought!

Video Testimonials is the next, innovative step in the advertising development. People are fed up with traditional ad – it is obtrusive and annoying. Testimonial is more reliable – nothing is more reassuring than customer’s obvious endorsement of a product or service. Let your customers say good things about you and your products – it looks more persuasive than when you do it yourself.

Video Testimonials are really attention-getting – people are curious about other customers’ personal experience, and would rather click-and-watch a video than surf store pages. Let your customers tell of their experience with your products and thereby make your store content more appealing!

The Video Testimonials extension keeps your site always updated. Videos can be easily added and rated, so there’s always something new about the product. A constant fresh stream of new videos gives an aura of newness even if nothing else changes.

The more video testimonials are uploaded in your store, the more socially proved it seems to be, and the fewer factors can influence sales resistance. If come-at-first-time people see customers admiring your products, all the uncertainty just self-eliminates.

Moreover, with Video Testimonials you can promote your store in YouTube – all the videos uploaded in your site automatically appear on YouTube under your store account. People find your video when searching for them and visit your site giving you a free permanent flow of traffic.

The Video Testimonials extension offers you a number of powerful features:

• Easy and fast 2-way video uploading
  Both customers and admin can upload video from computer or YouTube exactly on the product page.

 



 

• YouTube API usage
  All videos uploaded in your store are available on YouTube as well.
• Flexible extension settings
  Define which customer groups are able to upload video, whether it will be shown immediately or after admin’s approval, and make Video Testimonials block shown on certain product pages only.

 



 

• Rating system
  An ability to rate testimonials allows displaying the most popular videos in the first turn.

Please, find more information on the Video Testimonials page.

Note: the extension is compatible with Enterprise Edition 1.8 and Community Edition 1.4.1

A blog gives you a noteworthy opportunity to communicate with your regular customers and casual visitors. With the Blog module you can create an interactive two-way communication platform to provide official information on your store news, upcoming products, promotions, and get customers’ feedback.

Blogging has proved to be called one of the best effective marketing tactics. If your customers feel that they are listened to and their needs are responded to, they are more likely to come back to your store again and again.

Want to learn more about your customers’ choices, views, and preferences? Just let people leave comments and listen what they say! Being a part of the blog community, your customers will openly exchange their thoughts and express their opinions. A blog, with its readers and their comments, forms a real “live” environment where people feel free to communicate.

aheadWorks is happy to announce that Blog has become compatible with Magento Enterprise 1.8 and now you can set up Blog – Enterprise Edition or Blog – Community Edition on your store.

Several major versions of the following modules have been released:

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments v.1.4 – with configurable products support.

Search Autocomplete and Suggest v.2.0 – with customizable search item layout, product thumbnail dimension, search delay, header & footer of the search result list and much more.

AJAX Cart Pro v.2.0 – with Subscriptions and Recurring Payments extension support.

In order to give every Enterprise-based store owner an opportunity to maximize the potential of his website, we have released a number of minor updates compatible with Magento Enterprise 1.8:

Home Tabs Pro v.1.0.1

Automatic Product Callouts v.1.0.2

Previous/Next v.1.0.2

Easy Categories v.1.0.3

Advanced Reviews v.1.1.1

Product Questions v.1.3.1

On Sale v.2.1.3

Z-Blocks v.2.2.1

Featured Products v.2.2.6

Checkout Promo v.1.1.1

Who Bought This Also Bought v.1.1.2

Advanced Menu v.2.0.2

Review Rotator v.1.2.4

Follow Up Email v.3.2.1

Refer a Friend v.1.3.4

Customer Purchases v.1.2.1

Advanced Newsletter v.1.3.1

Frequently Bought Together v.1.1.9

Delivery Date and Notice v.1.0.1

Product Updates Notifications v.1.1.3

Help Desk Ultimate v.2.6.1

The list of compatible extensions is constantly increasing, so you will be able to set up any of aheadWorks modules for your Enterprise-based store in the nearest future.

In the “Help Desk Ultimate” Video Guide, we ease the process of extension usage and setup. We touch on such points as creating and replying to tickets, auto-converting email messages into tickets, and ticket responses. You will also learn about Help Desk Ultimate configuration and its specifics.

Take a look at our new video manual on the Help Desk Ultimate page.

aheadWorks development team provides you with a perfect opportunity to take your support service to the highest level with the help of a powerful set of three independent extensions – Help Desk Ultimate, Product Questions and Knowledge Base.

Help Desk Ultimate is a turnkey solution that enriches and refines the process of resolving your customers’ problems. It is easy-to-use system of tickets managing. You can create unlimited number of tickets and edit them from admin panel, link tickets with orders, reassign ticket to other department or lock it so no other department could edit it.

As for the already well-proven Product Questions extension that works with customers’ questions on your store items, it can be integrated with Help Desk Ultimate. The questions are automatically converted into Help Desk tickets and then administrator deals with a properly ranked and arranged list of issues. This greatly facilitates the process of customer care and support management and provides you with an ability to differentiate the hottest topics and afterwards, for example, clarify all the points in the form of a Frequently Asked Questions page.

The perfect assistant in creating FAQs is the Knowledge Base extension. It implicates the usage of the knowledge base to grasp all the information on most popular points, create articles, group them in categories and display on the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Customers should know that they are not left face to face with their problems. Provide first-rate customer service and you would be amazed how thankful satisfied customers are – they will surely prove their appreciation coming back to your store over and over again.