Archive for the ‘Magento’ Category

Google Shopping Adds Product Reviews

Tweet Last week Google announced plans to begin displaying aggregate product review information within Google Shopping Campaigns (formerly known as Product List Ads).  Meaning Google will display stars and review counts next to each paid product listing. You can read the full announcement at: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2014/07/helping-shoppers-decide-with-product.html This is a BIG, long awaited development, that is sure […]

7 Common Reasons Why Products Don’t Display in Magento

Tweet In this post, we will be reviewing some of the more common reasons Magento products do not display in the frontend. 1.  Product updates have invalidated the cache When using the Magento cache option, a refresh is required after product updates. System > Cache Management   The invalidated cache will be displayed in orange. […]

Magento – Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

Tweet Magento is a popular, powerful ecommerce solution. It’s also quite slow out of the box. How slow? The metaphor “as slow as a snail” comes to mind. (and that’s being kind…) However, with a few changes and some know-how, Magento can be as fast as any other ecommerce application, and likely faster than most. […]

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Google Shopping: Goodbye Product Listing Ads

Tweet Google recently launched Shopping Campaigns, a new type of Adwords campaign, which is set to replace Product Listing Ad campaigns (PLA’s).  New Merchant Center feeds are required to use the new Shopping Campaign type.  According to Google, legacy feeds will be migrated to the new campaign type later this Summer (August 2014 ETA). The […]

Five Hidden Pitfalls Of Remotely Hosted Shopping Carts

Tweet There are two broad types of ecommerce solutions: 1. Software that is installed in a hosting account (like ShopSite or Magento) -or- 2. Software as a service [SaaS] (no installation or ownership of files like Volusion, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc…) (Remotely hosted shopping cart) Although the idea of not having to install or maintain any […]

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