After the recent announcement that Yahoo! will be using Bing results, many in the SEO game are scrambling to learn more about the engine. (more…)
SEO – Bing fever taking hold
CPU hogging banner ads
Something that’s becoming an increasingly annoying issue for Joe Surfer is advertising that’s not only bandwidth heavy, but also chews up processor resources – like all of it. (more…)
Don’t make your customers chase you
Merchants can save themselves a lot of grief when it comes to issues with customers, just by exercising a little pro-activeness. (more…)
Thinking of adding a forum?
Considering adding a forum as a way to generate traffic and attract customers? A forum *may* work for your site, or but it’s more likely to work entirely against it; particularly if it’s a new site – here’s why. (more…)
More on cart abandonment
While you’ll never reduce your shopping cart abandonment rate to zero, there’s certainly a lot you can do to reduce it from the 50 – 60% range that many ecommerce merchants are currently experiencing. (more…)
Live chat effectiveness survey
Does live chat help encourage online sales? Judging by the results of various surveys, indeed it does. (more…)
Banners – bigger not better?
A study of over 2,300 online display campaigns running over the past three years has found that bigger ads are not always better. (more…)
Major credit card fraud indictment
The acting U.S. Attorney, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division and the United States Secret Service Director yesterday announced an indictment against three individuals charged with various credit card fraud offenses, including the single largest reported data breach in U.S. history. (more…)
Twitter grabs Aussies’ attention
Twitter has enjoyed meteoric growth all over the world.. and especially in Australia. (more…)
Respecting email addresses
Once you have a subscriber, be sure to treat their email address with respect – don’t see their subscription and details as permission to do with as you will. (more…)