Top Ecommerce Blog Posts and Articles for August 2012

Tweet I don’t know about you, but August was one of the busiest months for me in years. I’ll be blogging about it in the near future once I catch my breath and catch up around here. …But I did manage to find a few good reads from August that are bound to teach you […]

ShopSite Tip – Multi Add To Cart

Tweet The most common way for customers to add products to their shopping cart is one at a time, but sometimes it’s easier to present people with a list of products and allow them to add multiple items at once. Maybe you’re selling a group of products that are common for people to purchase a […]

Google Shopping – What Are You Waiting For?

Tweet Google Shopping is happening. There’s no stopping it. The deadline for signing up and receiving a 10% credit *AND* $100 AdWords credit that you can use towards your product ads is August 15th. Google just wrote a blog post with Updates About Google Shopping. So what are you waiting for? Don’t be left on […]

Top Ecommerce Blog Posts and Articles for July 2012

Tweet It’s been a hot summer. I’m not complaining though, as I love the hot weather. And up here in the Northeast we’ve been spared from the drought-like conditions in other parts of the country. Here are a few “hot” posts I found in July… TOP PICK: Five best practice tips for optimising product pages […]

Let Google Back Up Your Phone Contacts

Tweet A couple weeks ago I logged into Facebook and it told me a friend will be attending an event called “New Phone Number”.  It turns out a friend of a friend (I don’t even know this person) created an event on Facebook to have all their friends text them their name since they lost […]

We Got Bit By the Leap Second Bug

Tweet Did you know there was a leap second going from Saturday June 30th into Sunday July 1st? At midnight Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the clock was held back a second to keep time in sync with the planet’s daily rotation. Sounds harmless – more of an opportunity for jokes about what you’ll do with […]

Google Hosting Four Hangouts for Google Shopping for SMBs

Tweet Google has announced they will be airing Four Sessions via a Hangout (translated: live streaming video on Google+) that will cover: Helping Guide Small and Medium Sized Businesses Through the Transition to Google Shopping The first one airs on Friday, July 13th at 12:30 PM EDT (9:30 AM PDT). I would highly recommend any […]

You’ve Cleaned Your Infected Website – Now What?

Tweet Have you had your site hacked and services such as Google Safe Browsing are marking your site as a source of Malware?  Once you’ve cleaned your site, your computer, and you’re back up and running, you may still have a few things left to do in order to fully recover from the effects of […]

Top Ecommerce Blog Posts and Articles for June 2012

Tweet My son’s third birthday is tomorrow. Seems like just yesterday he was learning to walk. Now he’s running around, talking up a storm, and keeping me on my toes.  In the ecommerce realm, it seems like just yesterday that Google Product Search was free for merchants… TOP PICK: Website Optimization Basics – Search Engine […]

Simple ShopSite Tip That Can Have a Big Impact

Tweet It’s always the little things that can make a large impact… We’ve seen this come up a few times this week in emails and support requests. Merchants are seeing Alerts in their ShopSite backoffice about invalid zip codes for international customers (Canada, Europe, etc…) when their store uses a real-time shipping option like UPS […]