Archive for August 2009

ShopSite Tips – Shipping Options

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 SHIPPING [...]

Top tweets – August 22 to 29

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 what [...]

Google Checkout – Ecommerce Friend or Foe?

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 Past… [...]

ShopSite Tip – Customize Your Tax and Shipping

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 what [...]

Google Safe Browsing – What it Means for Your Website

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 likely [...]