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SEO Report Card: SolsticeSupply.com, Part 2

SEO Report Card: SolsticeSupply.com, Part 2

Over two years ago, we published an "SEO Report Card" for SolsticeSupply.com, an ecommerce site dedicated to closeout winter go... 2 Comments | Read More »

SEO Sidecars More Trouble than They're Worth

SEO Sidecars More Trouble than They're Worth

I'll get right to the point. You can't bolt a couple of pages onto the edge of your ecommece site like a sidecar to a motorcycl... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO: Automating Keyword Selection with AdWords API

SEO: Automating Keyword Selection with AdWords API

Optimizing a website around highly searched keyword terms can materially increase traffic from search engines. But identifying ... 0 Comments | Read More »

How Email Marketing Can Help SEO

How Email Marketing Can Help SEO

Creating valid HTML email newsletters and announcements with a canonical link element may help marketers boost search engine op... 0 Comments | Read More »

13 SEO Plugins for WordPress

13 SEO Plugins for WordPress

WordPress has many tools to run your ecommerce business. Using the many search-engine-optimization plugins of the WordPress com... 0 Comments | Read More »

How to Check Your Website's SEO Health

How to Check Your Website's SEO Health

There’s no reason, really, why ecommerce merchants cannot improve the search engine visibility of their websites. That’s becau... 1 Comment | Read More »

Google Says Smartphone Sites Aren’t Mobile

Google Says Smartphone Sites Aren’t Mobile

Perhaps you’ve noticed the lack of mobile sites in your mobile search results. Most likely you’re using a smartphone. The two a... 1 Comment | Read More »

SEO: Is a Mobile Site Necessary to Win Mobile Searchers?

SEO: Is a Mobile Site Necessary to Win Mobile Searchers?

Today’s superphones finally make mobile search a reality. After all, they sport 1GHz processors, 4 inch screens, 4G data connec... 1 Comment | Read More »

Search Engines Love Blogs; 3 Benefits

Search Engines Love Blogs; 3 Benefits

Search engines love blogs. They provide original, updated content that contribute to highly ranked sites. But how do merchants ... 2 Comments | Read More »

SEO Expert on Optimizing Ecommerce Blogs

SEO Expert on Optimizing Ecommerce Blogs

Search engines love blogs. They provide original, updated content that contributes to highly ranked sites. But how do merchants op... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO Case Study: When Past SEO Efforts Hurt Today’s Traffic

SEO Case Study: When Past SEO Efforts Hurt Today’s Traffic

Editor's Note: This is the third installment of a search-engine-optimization case study from contributor Jill Kocher on the SEO... 3 Comments | Read More »

SEO Case Study: Improving the Site's Architecture

SEO Case Study: Improving the Site's Architecture

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a search-engine-optimization case study from contributor Jill Kocher on the SE... 1 Comment | Read More »

SEO Case Study: One Store’s Struggle with Google Updates

SEO Case Study: One Store’s Struggle with Google Updates

In an effort to increase the quality of its search results, Google launched an update in late February dubbed the “Farmer/Panda... 5 Comments | Read More »

5 Free SEO Tools for Do-It-Yourself Analysis

5 Free SEO Tools for Do-It-Yourself Analysis

Paying an expert for search engine optimization on your website can cost a fortune and it doesn’t necessarily guarantee results... 1 Comment | Read More »

Google's 'Farmer' Algorithm and What It Means for Ecommerce SEO

Google's 'Farmer' Algorithm and What It Means for Ecommerce SEO

A massive change to Google's search engine ranking algorithm has recently improved query results, while having a negative effec... 13 Comments | Read More »

How to Waste Time on SEO Activities

How to Waste Time on SEO Activities

As a general rule, search engine optimization consultants are activity-focused. They typically suggest a huge laundry list of v... 9 Comments | Read More »

J.C. Penney Incurs Google SEO 'Action'; How to Protect Your Own Company

J.C. Penney Incurs Google SEO 'Action'; How to Protect Your Own Company

Search-engine-optimization agencies often play a vital role in ecommerce sites, where winning and converting organic searches t... 1 Comment | Read More »

Geolocation Helpful to Merchants, Tricky for SEO

Geolocation Helpful to Merchants, Tricky for SEO

Identifying where an online consumer lives can be helpful to ecommerce merchants. Among visitors to an ecommerce site, there's ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Ask an Expert: Should I Register My Site with Search Engines?

Ask an Expert: Should I Register My Site with Search Engines?

"Ask an Expert" is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online merchants. For this installment, ... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO Consequences of Negative Reviews

SEO Consequences of Negative Reviews

An alarming new flavor of search engine optimization surfaced on Friday when The New York Times reported on DecorMyEyes, an uns... 10 Comments | Read More »

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