One of the most common complaints we hear from customers is that their site is slow. Either customers are complaining, the client is having trouble using it in-house, or they’ve heard that speeding it up can help with SEO. All of these are great reasons to consider working on making your site faster. In case […]
As an online seller, you know that it’s imperative to stay on top of the latest trends if you want to remain competitive. That can mean many things, of course, from utilizing a new marketing strategy to updating your products themselves. With technology advancing all the time, and with more and more sales completed from […]
A great website, low prices, and a wide selection of products – these things draw in shoppers. But even more important is your customer service. Because if your customer service stinks, shoppers aren’t likely to buy from you – at least, not more than once. The good news is that it’s possible to almost guarantee […]
Back in mid-2015, Google started giving a small rankings boost to sites that were encrypted with an SSL certificate. As of this writing, it’s commonly thought that the boost is fairly small, but since Google has committed themselves to higher security on the web, we expect that it will grow in the future. Besides, if […]
It’s almost a brand new year – 2015 starts TOMORROW. Can you believe it? Like me, you probably have your own New Year’s resolutions. Maybe you want to quit smoking, lose weight, or spend more time with your family. January has always been a time to make new goals. But what about your website? It […]
The holidays are over, the shopping frenzy done. Presents are unwrapped and we’re all looking forward to the new year. That applies to your website, too, and if you use Miva Merchant, you need to start thinking about Miva Merchant 9. What’s New In Miva 9? Miva 9 includes several major changes. Even though it’s […]
Update January 19, 2015: It appears that Google may be ready to launch the mobile ranking algorithm, according to Search Engine Land and Web Pro news. In case you needed just one more reason to make your website display well on phones and tablets, Google has now begun to identify sites in their listings as […]
Did you know that Google recently announced that it would be giving sites a small boost in their SEO for SSL-enabled pages? Their goal is to create a more secure environment on the Internet, so they’ve decided to incentivize websites for proactively taking this step. Over at Search Engine Land, Barry Schwartz offers some guidelines […]
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a complicated process, especially for e-commerce sites. But getting the basics in place, if you don’t already have them, will provide a big boost right off the bat. And on-page SEO is often much easier and has faster results than off-page tasks such as link building. If you’re just launching or you’ve not […]
In a previous post, I presented a collection of comparison shopping engines’ conversion scripts and how to implement them in Miva Merchant. Since that time, I’ve been asked many times to implement Google dynamic remarketing, so I wanted to add a post outlining how you can configure that code for your e-commerce site, too. Google’s […]