Archive for March 2011

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…