A recent report from Netcraft found that Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates continue to gain ground and are being used on more websites. This from data collected over a four year period.

Some reports point out that EV certs account for a only a percent or two of total SSL certificates in use. This is a misleading stat. This statistic includes free websites and very low traffic sites, which are not a good representation of ecommerce websites.

Netcraft found that almost one-third of the top 1,000 busiest websites that have an SSL certificate are using an EV certificate. That’s a number worth noting…

Last week, United Parcel Service (UPS) switched their main www.ups.com SSL certificate from VeriSign to Comodo (both VeriSign and Comodo provide SSL certificates). What should have been a non-event instead caused headaches for many ecommerce merchants… Why the switch www.ups.com previously had a VeriSign SSL certificate that was up for renewal. It seems UPS decided [...]

I look at a lot of ecommerce carts and ShopSite ® installations each day. And I often see the same “little” mistakes repeated over and over.

The problem is, what a merchant may see as little and unimportant could easily be a deal breaker for a potential customer.

The good news is these small errors are easily corrected. Here’s 7 that I see regularly.

You’ve had your domain name for years. It’s indexed by Google and has excellent ranking. But you want to change your domain, so what do you do? You change it! When Google introduced their Google Webmaster Tools feature they opened up the windows to their data, allowing you in to see the pages they index [...]

Google recently posted to their Merchant Blog about upcoming changes for merchants. They also recently sent out an email about these changes to all merchants. Here’s what this means for ShopSite merchants.