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 […]
E-commerce Blog Posts
13 Ways to Improve Your E-commerce SEO
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 […]
Viral Marketing for B2B Stores
One of the problems in the B2B space is that your products are sold based on customer need, not desire, beauty, or trends. It’s much easier to get customers talking about fashion or entertainment than about, well, ID cards. Retailer IDWholesaler.com wanted to break through that barrier, and get people talking about their products and […]
Product Data Feed Best Practices
Data feeds are an integral part of marketing an ecommerce site. A data feed is nothing more than a list of your products, along with certain product details, in a structured format. The details included in the file depend on your site needs and the requirements of the partner to whom you’re submitting your data. […]
4 Great Ways to Showcase Your Product Images
Great product images are a major key to success for any e-commerce store. A website has to do its best to replace a customer’s ability to see and touch the physical items like they would at the store.
Will Google’s Recent Updates Hurt Your E-commerce Website?
Google recently made two important updates to its search algorithm, know as the “Farmer” and “Panda” updates in the SEO world. The main goal was to weed out low-quality sites, particularly those known as “content farms” – sites that churn out hundreds or thousands of pages with short, unresearched articles.