How to Properly Change Your Domain Name Without SEO Penalties

Tweet You’ve had your domain name for years. It’s indexed by Google and has excellent ranking. But you want to change your domain, so what do you do? You change it! When Google introduced their Google Webmaster Tools feature they opened up the windows to their data, allowing you in to see the pages they […]

Google Product Search Changes for ShopSite Merchants

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.

Top Ecommerce Blog Posts and Articles for March 2011

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.

Google’s Latest Update and its Effect on Ecommerce Stores

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…

WhyNoPadlock.com – New site makes it easy to find insecure items on your secure webpages

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…

Accessing the Google Product Search XML File in ShopSite

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.

Integrating Our ShopSite Coupon Creation Module with the Mailing List Service

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…

Easy Order and Inventory Management in ShopSite with Ordoro

Once an order is complete in ShopSite ®, every merchant has to process that order, print labels, ship it, track inventory, and order new items to replenish their stock levels. Since the ShopSite software does not provide these features, it requires either manual work, or a third party application to complete these tasks.

Fortunately, there’s a great web based service available that seamlessly integrates with your ShopSite store.

Upcoming Webinar – Accounting Integration in ShopSite

Just a quick reminder that our upcoming live webinar, Accounting Integration for ShopSite Merchants, is on Thursday, March 10th. What’s it about?…

Top Ecommerce Blog Posts And Articles For February 2011

Tweet This past month I learned all about “Ice Dams”. My definition: Mother nature’s way of letting buckets of water into your walls and ceilings. As I wait for things to dry out in my house, here are a few links you might find useful to learn about something more exciting than ice dams.  😉 […]