Ecommerce, SEO, and 301 Redirects

I recently came across a great blog post titled “Surviving and Thriving as an Ecommerce SEO”. It’s a great read for any ecommerce store owner that is interested in optimizing their store in terms of search engine rankings. The author, Everett Sizemore, brings up a number of good points and ideas when it comes to SEO for an ecommerce website.

WordPress is in the RSS Cloud

Tweet WordPress has always had support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication), which is the most common way for people to keep up with the blogs they like to follow.  Google’s Feed Burner is one of the most popular, allowing millions of people to follow millions of blog posts. However, RSS is not real time, and […]

Top LexiConn Tweets – August 30 – Sept. 5

Tweet A few highlighted tweets… Reading Practical Ecommerce “Is Your Business Paying Proper Attention to Facebook?” Website: www.practicalecommerce.com URL: Is Your Business Paying Proper Attention to Facebook … Blogging for Search Engine Optimization – Search Engine Watch (startup factors to consider) Website: www.searchenginewatch.com URL: Blogging for Search Engine optimization … RT @coastdigital: RT @BeccaJW: SEO: […]

How Long Will Your Customers Wait?

THREE seconds. Although many expect your pages to load in under 2 seconds. At least that is what the latest study conducted by Forrester Consulting found to be the case among 1000+ online shoppers. What this boils down to is shoppers expect fast loading webpages, and are willing to go elsewhere if a site is too slow or confusing.

ShopSite Tips – Shipping Options

Tweet Shipping options and prices are one of the most important items to would be buyers when they are shopping online. They want to know how much it will cost to ship their items, what options they have, and when their purchase will arrive. What does this mean for an ecommerce store? MAKE SURE YOUR […]

Top tweets – August 22 to 29

Tweet Our favorite tweets from the past week… RT @TRUSTesmallBiz Holiday SEO: Using Amazon Bestsellers for Keyword Research  #smbiz #ecommerce Website: www.getelastic.com URL: Holiday SEO: Using Amazon Bestsellers for Keyword Research Unique way to analyze keywords and ecommerce trends using Amazon … RT @EcommerceBoy Web Design Tips: Three Ecommerce Web Design Trends:  (nice look at […]

Google Checkout – Ecommerce Friend or Foe?

Tweet Back in June of 2006, Google released Google Checkout amidst a flurry of predictions and press coverage that it would soon be the number one payment choice for buyers. It looked like Google wanted to go head to head with PayPal and enter into the payment gateway and ecommerce world with a bang. The […]

ShopSite Tip – Customize Your Tax and Shipping

Tweet It seems obvious, and is quite simple, but I’m always amazed when some merchants do not take the time to customize the shopper selected sales tax text and default shipping options. Instead, you see this in the cart: When a would be customer puts something in the cart, you’re now expecting them to know […]

Google Safe Browsing – What it Means for Your Website

Tweet In a previous blog post we discussed the rise in IFRAME injection attacks via FTP that insert malicious code into webpages.  If this malicious code exists in any page that Google crawls, and the URL in the IFRAME or JavaScript call is one that Google has identified as potentially harmful or unsafe, it’s very […]

Top Tweets – August 1 to August 21

Tweet Periodically we’ll post our favorite “tweets” from the past week or two (or three). Here’s a few of the top ones… RT @problogger: How to Go Beyond Your Small Business Blog and Create a Social Media Footprint Webpage: problogger.net Great blog post discussing how to publicize your blog and get your visitors involved and […]