Version 2 Upgrade Just Released
Place1SEO Website Product Management Software V2 Feature Overview
Improved Speed
As you know, our dealer websites have tens of thousands of unique products, each with its own product page, image, and in many cases a PDF spec sheet. This impressive size is fantastic for SEO, and it allows our dealers to offer a huge variety of products to their customers online. But there’s a trade-off: the more data within a website, the longer it takes to update, and the slower it loads in a web browser.
That’s where our new CDN comes in!
A CDN, or content delivery network, is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers that can feed data anywhere in the country significantly faster than a traditional server. By hosting our resource-intensive data like product images one place and delivering them through a CDN, we’re able to populate our websites with your selected products significantly faster than before. Dealers can also expect to see significantly increased page speed as the feature is implemented across our sites, which benefits both SEO and user experience.
Enhanced Search Function
Our upcoming website upgrade will also include one of our most requested features yet: an improved search function. We’ll be implementing Elasticsearch – a smart search system whose features will continue to expand and improve over time. Once this change is applied, dealers can expect to instantly see a far more intuitive and useful search function on their websites.
After Elasticsearch’s initial implementation, our team will utilize a combination of user behavior insights and a comprehensive list of industry-specific synonyms to create a search experience with superior intuition and even more relevant results.
How Do I Upgrade My Dealer Website?
We wish we could snap our fingers and apply these awesome features to your sites at once, but big changes like this take time. If you already have a website with Place1SEO, your account manager will work with you to schedule a time to implement them.
Your website will be down for maintenance temporarily while it’s being upgraded, which is why we’re committed to working with you on pinpointing the time that works best. Call us today at 239.228.8837 if you have any questions or concerns.
What Comes Next?
Our custom software improvements don’t end there! Check out a few items to look forward to in the next round of upgrades and add-ons:
Product Management Software Version 3 Upgrades:
- Improved Design: Experience the new design which makes selecting and managing your products easier than ever.
- Enhanced Product Selection, Pricing, and Shipping Tools: Adjust pricing, shipping, and product selections not only by vendor and category, but also using custom filters down to the individual product level.
- Easily Manage Used Items and Custom Inventory: Create custom categories like “Used Equipment” and populate them with your own products, all from our convenient portal.
- Improved Custom Login Options: Allow Franchise or Institution Managers to approve orders placed by GM’s, add designated product groups with unique pricing, and more.
- POS and ERP API Integration: Add-on the ability to connect your website sales to your ERP or POS.
We’ll also be rolling out improved filters on category pages, continuing to improve our Elasticsearch function, and adding awesome interactive features to our Dealer Portal – including a Dealer Forum where we’ll address questions, issues, and announce upcoming changes.
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