Ah, spring time has finally arrived! A welcome season unless you’re an allergy sufferer. 😉

If you are, stay indoors and read these great articles from April.

A recent report from Netcraft found that Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates continue to gain ground and are being used on more websites. This from data collected over a four year period.

Some reports point out that EV certs account for a only a percent or two of total SSL certificates in use. This is a misleading stat. This statistic includes free websites and very low traffic sites, which are not a good representation of ecommerce websites.

Netcraft found that almost one-third of the top 1,000 busiest websites that have an SSL certificate are using an EV certificate. That’s a number worth noting…

Tweet Last week, United Parcel Service (UPS) switched their main www.ups.com SSL certificate from VeriSign to Comodo (both VeriSign and Comodo provide SSL certificates). What should have been a non-event instead caused headaches for many ecommerce merchants… Why the switch www.ups.com previously had a VeriSign SSL certificate that was up for renewal. It seems UPS […]

I look at a lot of ecommerce carts and ShopSite ® installations each day. And I often see the same “little” mistakes repeated over and over.

The problem is, what a merchant may see as little and unimportant could easily be a deal breaker for a potential customer.

The good news is these small errors are easily corrected. Here’s 7 that I see regularly.

Google recently posted to their Merchant Blog about upcoming changes for merchants. They also recently sent out an email about these changes to all merchants. Here’s what this means for ShopSite merchants.

It seems that old man winter is not done with us yet. Tomorrow is April, and there’s snow in the forecast. But the finish line to warm weather is in sight.

Just a few more weeks…

Here’s what I found to be the top posts and articles for March.

A few weeks ago, Google made a large change to its search engine algorithm. Dubbed the “Panda update”, it was designed to stop content farms and sites with low quality content from ranking highly in Google.

Unfortunately, a few ecommerce stores were caught in the cross-fire between Google and these copy-cat / low quality sites…

Ever spend endless time trying to find that one, tiny, insecure image call on your secure check-out page that’s causing the padlock to be broken in every web browser? I have. Many times.

And I’m betting you have too. In fact, it is one of the things that frustrates us the most when helping clients track down security problems.

So we decided to come up with a solution to take the pain out of this long search…

Google Product Search (formerly known as Google Base, and formerly known as Froogle) is a great, FREE service that Google offers to all ecommerce merchants. It allows merchants to easily list their products in Google so people can search for them.

We recently announced our latest ShopSite add-on module, the Coupon Creation Module. Here is a simple way to send personalized coupons to subscribers in your email marketing list…