Share Your Items on Facebook

Just replaced the Hive It buttons on Babylon Mall items with these:

These buttons will let you post your items on a blog, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Stylehive, and a whole bunch of other social networking sites.

Article on the Auctionbytes Website

I was pleased to see an article about Babylon Mall on the Auctionbytes website this morning. It's weird to see an article about yourself!

Tip of the Day: List every place you sell

Mall sellers should list their online stores with www.everyplaceisell.com, a great new Merchant Directory by Auctionbytes.

Babylon Mall is one of the venue options. You can see everyone who sells on the mall by clicking here.

RSS Feeds for eVintage Society Members

So who hasn't heard of eVintageSociety.com already? If you haven't, you should head over there on the double!

Babylon Mall offers a banner exchange program with eVintage Society. Any eVintage member can have their 468w x 60h pixel banner displayed on the mall homepage. Mall sellers can have the images of their choice as long as they are 210w x 300h pixels. Just email your banners or images to support@babylonmall.com and tell me where to point if someone clicks on your photo. Banners and images must be exactly those dimensions listed (the software is very picky).

Babylon Mall also supplies an RSS feed which is displayed on the eVintage Society website. Mall sellers who are eVintage Society members should put the word 'evintagesociety' (all one word) anywhere in their listings. In the near future this will be the requirement for eVintage Society members to show up on the new RSS feed.

RSS Feeds Update

The mall has had data feeds for some time now. You may recognize the icons from the mall pages:

We've just upgraded them to include an image with every item. After all - what's the point of shopping without a picture to look at? The main mall data feed as well as your individual store feeds now include images, and the feeds will look great on your blog.

Setting up for Google Analytics

The mall doesn't have a great stats reporting tool. If you are using the stats with a subdomain, it does not count visits to your store through the main mall shopping page. Luckily, the mall gives you an easy way to integrate with Google Analytics.

If you edit your store, you will see the first field on the page stores your Google Analytics account number.

Where can I find my Google Analytics account number?

To access your tracking code account number, first you must sign up for a Google Analytics account. Then:

1. Sign in to Google Analytics
2. From the Analytics Settings page, find the profile for which you would like to retrieve the tracking code. Please note that tracking code is profile-specific. You will probably have to create a profile using your subdomain or the long URL to your store.
3. From that profile's Settings column, click Edit

4. At the top right of the Main Website Profile Information box, click Check Status

5. Your tracking code can be copied and pasted from the text box in the Instructions for adding tracking section.

Ok, so they've changed some stuff since I first wrote these 5 steps. The only tracking code you need to enter on the mall looks something like this:

UA-XXXXXX-X

(where the X's are digits).

You can copy it from the Legacy Tracking Code (urchin.js) section of the Google Analytics page that you should be on from step 5. You do NOT need to copy the whole thing:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin..js type="></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-XXXXXX-X";
urchinTracker();</script>

And back to your stores page, you will enter UA-XXXXXX-X into the first field. Don't forget to save!