Something as simple as a file name can easily cause problems with a website. Whether it’s an image that appears to be missing, a web page that shows HTML code, or an error on the website – these problems can all stem from a file name.
Your domain name and SSL certificate are important pieces of digital real estate. Don’t let them expire, or you could not only lose sales, but lose your internet name forever. Take one simple step to make sure these deadlines are never missed.
PayPal is an important payment method for any ecommerce store. The more options you can give your customers to pay with, the better. And PayPal is easy to enable for any ecommerce store.
However, PayPal has a few settings that may not be obvious, and can cause issues for a merchant…
How long should a cart be saved before it’s deleted? It’s a complicated question that encompasses a number of factors…
Selling online is getting harder these days. As more and more big-box retailers shift their focus to ecommerce, remaining competitive takes more than low prices and a website. This is especially true if your products are not unique.
One easy way to break out from the pack is with a blog.
There are times when you may want a product to be available for viewing on your ShopSite store, but you don’t want people to be able to see the price or add it to their cart without a password. In this blog post we’ll show you some basic PHP code that can be used in a template to hide these sections of a page.
Man did it snow in January here in Connecticut! Over 71 inches of snow this winter, with more falling as I write this.
I thought I’d take a break from all this shoveling and list a few gems I found in January…
We sometimes hear that ShopSite ® can take a long time to complete a full publish of web pages for large ecommerce stores. By large I mean stores that have 50,000 or 100,000+ products in ShopSite. By a long time, it’s usually one hour or more.
In fact, we recently received an email from a ShopSite store owner hosted somewhere else that said a publish was taking over 2 hours to finish! The store has around 100,000 products.
None of this gels with what we’ve seen…
Pay Per Click (PPC) can be expensive. Especially if you’re in a crowded, competitive field (as many ecommerce merchants are). However, you can harness the power of your Google Adwords account to help boost your organic rankings… for FREE!
Last week Practical Ecommerce had an article showing the Top Ten Online Spending Days of 2010 Holiday Season. The data, collected by comScore, displays the 10 biggest sales days of 2010. I thought it would be interesting to see how smaller ecommerce merchants did during this same period of time.
