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Simple Steps to Improve Your Website Usability
2008-06-02 00:00:00 Simple Steps to Improve Your Website Usability No one can argue that website usability is a must have these days. Make your website as simple as possible and users will love it. Make the purchase process as short as possible and your sales will boost. How? Here are a few very ... More About: Simple
Setting Up Your Online Store
2008-03-20 00:00:00 One of the most important factors when planning your e-business strategy is the company or product you choose to help you.. No matter what you sell, however, an e-commerce site must provide the same basic services your customers would expect. Once you?ve decided what kind of online business you want to ... More About: Store , Online , Online store
Choosing the Appropriate E-Commerce System
2008-03-05 00:00:00 When you decide to open an online store, you have a number of options to choose from. Choosing the appropriate e-commerce system is possibly the first, most important task, and even if you're not going to do it yourself, you'll still need enough information to make the right decision. ... More About: System , Commerce , E-Commerce
Top 10 E-Commerce Mistakes
2008-02-24 00:00:00 Nowadays, shopping online is not a rarity; it has fast become the norm due to increased confidence, immediacy and the convenience factor. With this in mind, and your competitor's being just a mouse-click away, having the very best site has become a must. So, what can you do? Lets ... More About: Commerce , E-Commerce
UK Christmas Spend Online To Be Up 42% on Last Christmas
2007-11-12 00:00:00 Christmas is going to be bigger than ever this year with over £13.8 billion to be spent by the UK's 27 million e-shoppers, According to Forester Resesearch*. This prediction is up 42% on last Christmas, compared to IMRG's 2006 data. Why is Online Spending Continuing to Rise? 61% of homes are ... More About: Christmas , Last Christmas
Creating an Online Survey Using PHP - Part 2 Published
2007-09-28 00:00:00 For everyone confident in PHP, PHPBuilder.com have posted a tutorial showing you how to create an online survey using PHP. The first part of the PHP tutorial explained how to handle the replies using email and the second part, published today, shows you how to store the received information in a ... More About: Survey , Creating , Online , Published , Part
PHP Tutorial - Creating an Online Survey
2007-09-27 00:00:00 Find out how to create an online survey using PHP... Online surveys are very handy for gathering information about your customers. Were they satisfied with your service? How could you improve their shopping experience? How satisfied were they with the speed of your technical support? Questions like these can help you to learn more about ... More About: Tutorial , Survey , Creating
Adding RSS To Your PHP Shopping Cart - The Benefits
2007-09-21 00:00:00 Adding RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to your PHP shopping cart has many benefits, including its ability to improve your websites online presence, exposure and organic search engine rankings. What is RSS? RSS enables the public, and people interested in your industry, product or service, to keep up to date with your website ... More About: Shopping , Benefits , Cart
Online UK Shopping Sales Up 80% on Last Year
2007-08-23 00:00:00 Online shopping saw a massive spike in online sales last month, up 80% compared to July 2006. Online sales were actually a huge £1.86 billion higher than they were in July 2006. Other facts that may be of interest to all you shopping cart owners: The IMRG Index exceeded 4000 for the first ... More About: Shopping , Sales , Online , Year
Create Unobtrusive Ads For Your Shopping Cart Using PHP and jQuery
2007-08-12 00:00:00 Here's a new tutorial for all you PHP gurus. Create an unobtrusive Ad for your shopping cart using PHP and iQuery . The PHP tutorial comes from the SEO Expert Blog. In the tutorial he shows you how to create an ad with the advertising content that Amazon has to offer, enabling you to ... More About: Shopping , Cart , Jquery
Celebrate PHP Software at PHP Expo
2007-08-04 00:00:00 In-depth PHP shopping cart tutorials, expert case studies, business and technical lectures, and networking events will make up the third anniversary of the PHP conference. The latest news... Joel Spolsky is to Keynote. DevZone announced the news earlier this week. Although Joel Spolsky isn't a PHP developer, he knows a lot ... More About: Software , Expo , Celebrate , Brat , Rate
Google Rolls Out Custom Search Business
2007-07-27 00:00:00 Google's Custom Search Business Edition enables shopping cart and website owners, particularly small-to-medium sized enterprizes, to utilise google's search technology. The custom search engine will let visitors access search results from any website or websites that you, the Webmaster, chooses. Starting at around $100/year, you can add Google search to index and ... More About: Google , Googl
Viart Shopping Cart Software Adds 3D Secure Payment Gateways
2007-07-21 00:00:00 To ensure the highest level of compliance under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI), Viart Shop has recently added two 3D secure payment gateways to their shopping cart software. Viart.com (http://www.viart.com/), an online company supplying PHP shopping cart software worldwide, has recently enabled two more 3D secure payment systems. ... More About: Software , Shopping , Secure , Ping
Google to Acquire Postini For £320 Million/ $625 Million
2007-07-14 00:00:00 Google has recently announced the acquisition of Posti ni - A company that offers security and corporate compliance solutions for email, IM and other online based communications. Postini serves over 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. Google has explained the deal will allow them to offer more hosted services to businesses. At ... More About: Google , Million , Acquire , Googl
Wikipedia - Top For Online News
2007-07-10 00:00:00 Wikipedia continues to grow, with the online encyclopedia recieving around 20 million more vistors per month, than it did 12 months ago. As reported by Nielsen/ Netratings, Wikipedia had 46.8 million unique visitors in May 2007. This is a huge 72% increase compared to June 2006. Research carried out ealier this year ... More About: News , Wikipedia , Online
Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment
2007-07-03 00:00:00 Shopping cart abandonment is a significant issue for all merchants. Before completing the checkout process, it is thought that as much as 75% of shoppers abandon their shopping carts - as reported by industry research reports. There are a few ways merchants can identify drop out points. My personal favourite is ... More About: Shopping , Ping , Understand , Cart , Standing
Flickr Integrated into Yahoo Image Search
2007-07-01 00:00:00 Very recently it was reported that Yahoo has added millions of Flickr images into its image index. This is a huge step for Yahoo! in their efforts to improve relevancy! This has to be the central reason why Yahoo bought Flickr in the first place way back in March 2005! It's impressive that ... More About: Search , Image , Integra
Shopping Carts: 5 Usability Problems
2007-06-23 00:00:00 The process leading up to a transaction online is possibly the most critical to a shopping cart's success. If the buying process causes frustration, confusion or insecurity, the user is likely to abandon the shopping cart, never to return again. The usability of a shopping cart refers to the efficiency with ... More About: Shopping , Usability , Problems , Ping , Cart
Shopping Carts: 5 Potential Design Problems
2007-06-21 00:00:00 The process leading up to a transaction online is possibly the most critical to a shopping carts success. If the buying process causes frustration, confusion or insecurity, the user is likely to abandon the shopping cart, never to return again. Many of the larger online shopping carts, like Play.com and Amazon.com, ... More About: Shopping , Design , Problems , Ping , Cart
Major Search Engines Deliver Different Results
2007-06-15 00:00:00 The big search engines deliver search results that are dramatically different, according to a new study. According to a new study the big players in search; Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, all return very different search results. In fact the first page results from all four search engines overlapped by less than 1%. The ... More About: Search Engines , Results , Search , Engines , Rent
Shopping Carts Get More Traffic from Social Network Sites
2007-06-08 00:00:00 The latest statistics from Hitwise has revealed that the arrival of MySpace has had a significant impact on shopping carts. Shopping carts now receive 3.15% from MySpace - up 86.1% in the past year LeeAnn Prescott from Hitwise notes that the increase from MySpace to ecommerce shopping sites could have several explanations: ... More About: Social , Traffic , Network , Sites
Convert More Shoppers with More Information
2007-05-31 00:00:00 A survey carried out on US web users has revealed that customers with plenty of information during the buying process can help to convert more browsers to buyers. 2,873 US online shoppers were surveyed and amongst other findings, it was revealed that almost half of consumers have abandoned their shopping carts ... More About: Information , Convert , Form , Format , Shopper
Ecommerce News: Google Trends Launch Hot Trends
2007-05-25 00:00:00 Hot Trends is Google 's new Google Trends feature that will now report the top 100 'hottest' search queries for each day. For each 'hot' search query, you can view a graph that displays the popularity of the query, related searches and the top results from Google News , Blog Search and Web ... More About: Ecommerce
More Email Marketing Pointers
2007-05-19 00:00:00 In one of our previous posts, Newsletters and shopping cart software, I pointed you to an article that explained what you should look for and utilise in shopping cart software when wanting to market your online business, generate repeat business etc. using newsletters/ email campaigns. Here I have another article I ... More About: Marketing , Email , Email Marketing , More , Point
Google Analytics Gets An Upgrade
2007-05-12 00:00:00 For those of you taking advantage of Googl e Analytics , many of you may have received an email from google this morning announcing its new features and interface. Google's hope is to offer more comprehensive data to those shopping cart owners that need it, and simplify the vast amounts of data available ... More About: Google Analytics , Gets
Hitwise Statistics on Google Checkout Take Up
2007-05-12 00:00:00 As you may already know Google Checkout recently launched in the UK. Google Checkout has actually been available in the US for just less than a year now and Hitwise have just made available some statistics showing how the take up of google checkout is going so far in the ... More About: Statistics , Wise , Stat
Newsletters and Shopping Cart Software
2007-05-12 00:00:00 Newsletter functionality is on almost everyone's list when choosing their shopping cart software. They're a great marketing tool for engaging customers, telling them about special promotions and offers, and generating repeat business. There's a great article about newsletters and shopping cart software over at Practical Ecommerce - Definately worth a read! Technorati Tags: ... More About: Software , Shopping , Newsletters , Ping , Cart
Internet Shopping Carts and SEO Continued?
2007-05-12 00:00:00 In my recent article Intern et Shopping Cart s and SEO I explained to some extent how the search engines take three factors into account when ranking pages. The three factors were: On-page SEO factors Off-page SEO factors Accessability SEO factors I have stumbled upon a great article that acts as a comprehensive checklist for all ... More About: Ping
Attention Ask.com Advertisers - New Contextual Advertising
2007-04-27 00:00:00 For those shopping carts owners who advertise with Ask.com... Ask.com is launching a new sponsored listings contextual product. So how is Ask's new contextual product different from Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network? There's two differences: Publishers will be able to set 'page yield' thresholds and 'relevancy' thresholds. There will be levers to ... More About: Advertising , Advertisers , Text , Contextual , Sing
Shopping cart questions from fellow merchants, answered
More articles from this author:2007-04-27 00:00:00 While the Ecommerce Times usually fill their homepage with product reviews, current ecommerce news and shopping cart tutorials, this week they have highlighted some popular disscussions often held by merchants in their forums. You should find this interesting as it provides an insight into what your fellow merchants are thinking and ... More About: Shopping , Questions , Quest , Ants , Merchant 1, 2 |
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