Cyber Monday Ecommerce Checklist – Check It Twice

With the hyped up Cyber Monday online shopping bonanza day fast approaching (Monday November 30th), here are a 19 things to check on your ecommerce website to make sure you’re ready to capture as many sales as possible.

Fave LexiConn Tweets – Nov. 1 – 14

Some of our favorite tweets on Twitter from the past 2 weeks (Nov. 1 – 14).

AddThis Share with Facebook Passing Title, Description, And Thumbnail Image

AddThis.com is a website service that allows webpages to easily share their content with many social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc… One of the more popular sharing sites is with Facebook. However, people looking to share a page / product on Facebook may not get the title, description, and thumbnail image pre-populated as you would like.

How Many Steps Are Optimal For Customers To Complete An Ecommerce Purchase?

How many steps a customer must go through to complete and online purchase is an often debated number. Some people think one step is ideal, and other range from two to five. We’ll take a look at what a few prominent bloggers think, and what we have found to work well for our SMB clients.

Are You Using Your robots.txt File Effectively For Your Ecommerce Store?

One of the tools at any website’s disposal is the use of a robots.txt file. This is especially true for any ecommerce website, as this little text file can help guide search engines to the correct content to index. We’ll look at what a robots.tx file is, why it’s important, and how to use it to your advantage for your ecommerce website.

ShopSite 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – What You Need to Know

The latest version of ShopSite, version 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1), is due out soon. We’re actually in the middle of beta testing the new version. And from what we’ve seen so far, it’s a great release chock full of new features. Here’s what you need to know for the upcoming release.

Ecommerce Stores Should Be More Like Brick and Mortar Shops

Why do so many merchants assume that the rules online are vastly different from those that apply to brick and mortar merchants? Launching a successful online store is quite similar to running a retail store in the mall. Here are a few key points to consider…

Top LexiConn Tweets – Oct. 18 – 31

A small collection of our favorite tweets from October 18 to October 31.

WordPress Plugins in Use – All in One SEO Pack

A series of posts on plugins that our blog has in use. In this post, we look at All in One SEO Pack, a must have plugin for getting the most out of SEO for any WordPress blog.

10 Top ShopSite Add-ons for Your Ecommerce Store

Although ShopSite is a full featured, top-notch ecommerce package, there are a number of add-ons that can compliment the software and offer many great features for any ecommerce store. Here is our top 10 list of essential ShopSite add-on modules.