5 Content Marketing Ideas for April 2026
March 1, 2026 • Armando Roggio
Potential topics in April for ecommerce marketers include Apple computers, burritos, Google Discover, beer, and zippers.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: March 18, 2026
March 18, 2026 • Sig Ueland
This week: reusable packaging, dropshipping, product feeds, finance, fulfillment platforms, B2C marketing, agentic commerce, and AI-powered contact centers.
The Latest
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Conversion
How CRO Drives Ecommerce Longevity
March 18, 2026 • Adam Pearce
Optimizing for onsite conversions informs ad campaigns, organic search, and email marketing.
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Amazon & Marketplaces
E.U. Law Tightens Marketplace Selling
March 17, 2026 • Beata Twardowska
Verification and transparency are becoming routine for marketplace sellers in the E.U.
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SEO Tools
Search Console Adds Brand Filters
March 16, 2026 • Ann Smarty
Search Console had already provided tools for branded queries, but the new filter makes the process easier and quicker.
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Inventory
Launch Your Own Private-Label Brand
March 15, 2026 • Armando Roggio
Private-label brands remove one or more layers of intermediaries from the supply chain.
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Paid Post
How AI Transforms E-Commerce in 2026
February 12, 2026 • Stord
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Business
How Vessi Sells Waterproof Shoes
March 13, 2026 • Eric Bandholz
Director of ecommerce Ray Hua shares the challenges of targeting the right audience, cross-border selling, diversifying, and more.
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Fraud Prevention
Why OpenAI Acquired Promptfoo
March 12, 2026 • Armando Roggio
Acquisitions by OpenAI and Meta foretell an agent-driven world with evolving security risks.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: March 11, 2026
March 11, 2026 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes product feeds, localized commerce, installment payments, risk intelligence, social commerce, agentic commerce, parcel lockers, and more.
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Google Ads
Time-Sensitive Offers in Google Ads
March 10, 2026 • Matthew Umbro
A date-specific ad message does not automatically show, but workarounds can increase its chances.
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SEO
Studies Reveal AI Citation Clues
March 9, 2026 • Ann Smarty
Generative AI platforms offer no guidelines on how to appear in their answers. We're left with independent research.
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Analytics & Data
The AI Attribution Blind Spot
March 8, 2026 • Armando Roggio
The influence of genAI platforms on shopping remains largely invisible, at least for now.
Ecommerce Conversions Podcast
Marketing
Content Marketing
Content Marketing
How a Pro Writer Uses AI
February 27, 2026 • Eric Bandholz
To freelance writer and editor Kaleigh Moore, AI greatly increases efficiency, within limits.
SEO
SEO
AI Bots Don’t Need Markdown Pages
March 2, 2026 • Ann Smarty
Serving separate versions of a page to people and bots is not new. It's called "cloaking."
SEO Tools
AI Prompts Come to Search Console
February 23, 2026 • Ann Smarty
The new feature enables organic search analysis by entering generative AI-like prompts.
Conversion
Analytics & Data
AI Turns Weather Data into Sales
February 19, 2026 • Armando Roggio
For merchants, the opportunity is not predicting the weather; it's knowing what to do with the data.
Analytics & Data
The Truth about ‘Direct’ Traffic
February 15, 2026 • Armando Roggio
Direct traffic as reported by Google Analytics and other platforms might be mislabeled, misleading, and even detrimental.
Business
Business
From Teacher to Fashion Brand Founder
March 6, 2026 • Eric Bandholz
In 2019 Nasrin Jafari was a middle school teacher in New York City. "I had no idea how to make clothes," she says.
Amazon & Marketplaces
Seller Central AI Remakes Data Analysis
March 5, 2026 • Armando Roggio
The new "dynamic canvas experience" hints at a broader shift from reporting to conversational business intelligence.
Design & Development
Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: March 4, 2026
March 4, 2026 • Sig Ueland
New services this week include product photography, lead generation tools, seller assistants, retail media, shipping, cross-border ecommerce, cryptocurrencies, and more.
Design & Development
AI Revives Ecommerce DIY
February 26, 2026 • Armando Roggio
An AI-first culture is driving a renaissance of do-it-yourself projects reminiscent of early ecommerce innovations.
From the archive
Platforms & Apps
osCommerce Founder: Open Source Encourages Collaboration
January 1, 2006 • Brian Getting
Harald Ponce de Leon had an idea to create an online shopping cart system that would serve as a guide to other ecommerce developers. That was in 2000.
SEO
Hreflang Explained
November 12, 2019 • Bill Sebald
Hreflang is an HTML attribute that allows Google and other search engines to recognize localized versions of web pages. If you have sections of your site for a French audience, for example, an hreflang tag helps Google understand that the section...
Business
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