Does Anyone Else Have a Yahoo Storefront?

[americana]

I've run across various problems/restrictions and I'd like to have a discussion with someone else who actually has a Yahoo Storefront.

[CJacobson]

yes... (it's http://store.yahoo.com/storyboardtoys/ )

But it's the only online store I've had. I'm no expert.

What were your questions?

[americana]

Hello. I'm just so frustrated with the storefront. We are restricted to number of top links, we are restricted on each page... we can't put any pictures throughout or above the text. Meta tags are not in the right order, but we can't change it because that's how it was built on the backend (although I don't think this makes a difference). I'm also told that the Yahoo gives each of our pictures a different name than we provide and then update the name (or number) from time to time - which will become very frustruating with our affiliates once we join an affiliate program. I'm not happy with the site analysis tools. If you go in under store merchant you get different information than if you go in through another way (slipped my mind at the moment, but I can find out if you'd like). We finally fixed the problem of our url containing the word "store" - our URL is now www.EndlessTechnologies.com, without the store and all the other nonsense. We actually lost our whole site at one point during the building stage. I'm not sure why at the moment, but Yahoo didn't have a backup! Can you believe Yahoo didn't have a backup? So obsurd. Anyway, these are just some of them. Let me know if you have any of your own or have experienced some of the same problems we are experiencing.

Currently, we are not ranking well for any of our keywords... some of our pages are actually overoptimized at this point and I am going to fix that, but I just can't help believing that some things on the backend weren't done properly to begin with. I just remembered a big one, but the thought came and went - I'll think of it and add it tomorrow...