One of the things you have to deal with when switching from another e-commerce software to Magento are URL redirects. Over the past years you (hopefully) received many incoming deep links. You surely know that incoming links are one of the main ranking factors for most search engines. So when you switch to another e-commerce software, these deep links get useless because they point to subpages that don’t exist (unless you don’t have the exact same URL structure in your new shop). The common way to solve this issue is just to do a 301 redirect (permantly redirect) from the old URLs to the new ones. You have the possibility to define the redirects in your .htaccess file or with the Magentos build-in “URL Rewrite Management” (in the Backend “Catalog” -> “URL Rewrite Management”). (more…)

Magento Experts (Mxperts) is the number one Magento related Blog in Germany. Today they released a Magento extension that allows you to easily load jQuery into your Magento store. You just have to install the extension and jQuery gets automatically loaded. In the configuration menu of your Magento backend there is a new section, where you can enable different settings like loading jQuery in the minified/compressed way or turning on/off the conflict mode. The extension keeps your jQuery version up-to-date but also allows you to specify a certain jQuery version to be loaded. (more…)