Practical eCommerce Articles
Minimize Customer Complaints
Step Two: Send a follow-up email within a week of the customer receiving their product or service. Keep the email short, and en... 1 Comment | Read More »
Optimize Your HTML For Search Engines
SEO can be broken into two distinct areas – "onpage" factors and "off-page" factors. On-page factors include anything that you ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Optimizing HTML Code for Maximum SEO
Overview Search engine optimization has come to the forefront in recent years as competition for search engine rankings increa... 1 Comment | Read More »
Pay-per-click Tools Maximize Your Time
As a business owner and entrepreneur, you know that there are two things you can always use more of - money and time. While you... 0 Comments | Read More »
Seeing Stars on the Web
As awards show season gets under way, celebrity fashion will be receiving a tremendous amount of global press, even more so tha... 0 Comments | Read More »
SEO Report Card: Discountflies.com
Welcome back to another installment of “SEO Report Card.” Each month I assess the search engine optimization effectiveness of a... 5 Comments | Read More »
The Home Page: Putting Your Best Foot Forward
You never get a second chance at a first impression. Or so the saying goes. Perhaps that’s the reason that website home pages a... 0 Comments | Read More »
Your eCommerce Activities Could be Criminal
The online world is an interesting place today for many reasons. Remember the old western movies when the cowboys came into tow... 0 Comments | Read More »
An Introduction to CSS - Part 3
Overview In our last two tutorials about Cascading Style Sheets, we covered how to apply styles to all instances of an HTML ta... 1 Comment | Read More »
Be Careful of the Number 1 Spot
Pay-Per-Click advertising works in an auction-based format, since there are a number of advertisers competing for the same keyw... 0 Comments | Read More »
Customer Service Focus - January 2006
As I have mentioned many times before, communication is the key to excellent customer service. One of the primary ways that mer... 0 Comments | Read More »
Encoding Images Using HTML
Overview One of the most basic HTML elements is the image tag, which is used to tell a browser to display an image on a webpag... 5 Comments | Read More »
Google Analytics Draws Industry Reaction
On November 14, 2005 Google announced its free, hosted web analytics service. Based on the Urchin analytics platform, which Goo... 0 Comments | Read More »
HTML Email: Effectiveness Requires Planning
Email can be an essential tool for every online retailer. Professional-looking emails instill confidence, build brand awareness... 0 Comments | Read More »
Order Management Software Saves Time, Reduces Errors
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” When Charles Dickens opened his classic A Tale of Two Cities with those... 8 Comments | Read More »
osCommerce Founder: Open-Source Encourages Collaboration
Harald Ponce de Leon had an idea to create an online shopping cart system that would serve as a guide to other ecommerce develo... 4 Comments | Read More »
Reaping Holiday Sales in January
So many online stores put all of their focus into attracting holiday shoppers during the end of the year that they overlook the... 1 Comment | Read More »
Relentlessimprovement.com Succeeds with Nutritional Supplements
Peter Hitesman was a loan officer for a banking institution in what he would consider his past life. It was a job that required... 0 Comments | Read More »
Search Engine Optimization: Avoid Complex URLs
Search engines tend to have problems fully indexing dynamic websites (in other words, sites that are hooked up to a database of... 1 Comment | Read More »
SEO Report Card: Balancedlifeproducts.com
Welcome to “SEO Report Card”, where I assess how well search engine optimized a selected ecommerce site is. For this first inst... 0 Comments | Read More »