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Comment to: Sales Tax Update: Illinois Says Affiliates Create a Nexus
Wow. First Illinois raises income tax from 3% to 5%, and the corporate tax rate from 4.8% to 7%, and NOW they are fumbling with definitions of "physical presence" to rake in even more money, just as ASCAP and the RIAA often do with the definit...
March 24, 2011
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Comment to: Google's 'Farmer' Algorithm and What It Means for Ecommerce SEO
The unfortunate assumption that has been made is that merchants are copying and pasting data for their product descriptions, and not taking the time to create their own original content.
I operate a sheet music store. Our descriptions ...
March 10, 2011
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Comment to: Why Free Shipping Works
For those who send printed materials, USPS offers a Media Mail service, which is cheap enough that some businesses may want to offer it for free. No matter the weight, the order is almost always under $3.00. The drawbacks on Media Mail, would...
February 09, 2010
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Comment to: Mobile Commerce: Better to Create an App or a Mobile-optimized Site?
From the user's viewpoint, I much prefer an application on my smartphone than using the web browser.
Generally speaking, I don't find that phones are ideal for interacting with a website, even when those sites are optimized. It tends ...
February 09, 2010
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Comment to: SEO: There Is No Duplicate Content Penalty
I have been using our robots.txt for issues such as /page/ /sort/ /alpha/ and pagination.
I've done this because there are many cases when there are less than 10 products to fill a certain page and any of the links above could produce e...
October 20, 2009
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Comment to: Six Pointers for Generating Traffic from YouTube
I found it interesting (after reading this article) to find so many of our competitors using youtube. I searched their domain name, and they had several videos.
It's time for me to step up to the plate. Thanks for the great article!
October 08, 2009
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Comment to: Cart of the Week: Interspire “Obsesses Over Quality”
We use the Interspire cart, and it has gotten the job done well. My biggest disappointment (which is probably a good thing for everyone else), is that in a very short time after we installed the cart, it jumped up several versions.
We ...
September 28, 2009
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Comment to: Five SEO Mantras for Website Redesign
My company recently did a complete redesign. There are more than half a million unique pages so it became a high probability that we'd slip up somewhere.
All of the mantras you provided are great and so important. We had those in mind...
August 20, 2009
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Comment to: Ten Pay-per-click Questions An Owner Should Ask
Remember that even if your PPC campaign is not balancing out or providing profit, there is still value in the brand awareness that you are providing.
People that don't buy today, may become a valued customer in the future. Before runni...
August 18, 2009
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Comment to: Google Checkout: Expert Cites Positives and Negatives
Music Forte has used Google Checkout for a few years. Last year, GC accounted for almost 20% of our total sales. However, something has changed, and that percentage is now near only 1%.
Last year, Google Checkout was producing twice a...
August 14, 2009
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