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5 Ways to Make Your New eCommerce Business Appear Bigger than It Is

by Darren

If you’re launching your ecommerce site on a shoestring budget, like many of us have, then here is a list of 5 inexpensive tips to help make your site look and feel more professional in the eyes of customers. 1. Get a Decent Telephone Number Unless your business is targeting a specific geographic region then [...]

How to Automatically Monitor your Competitors with No Effort

by Darren

Okay I lied a little bit, this method of automatically and instantly monitoring your competitors online activities takes a whole 2 minutes to setup but requires zero on-going effort. Oh, and it’s completely free as well! How would you like to know when your competitors do any of the following? Add a new section to [...]

Which hosting account should I use for my ecommerce website?

by Darren

Over the many years that I’ve been involved with websites I have owned and used quite a few different hosting packages from a variety of suppliers. I think the first one I ever paid for was a shared account with Webfusion and I don’t remember having it for very long really, my memories of it [...]

What different types of eCommerce hosting are available?

by Darren

A basic requirement of running your own ecommerce website is having a host, but what exactly is a host and what are the differences between them? Essentially hosting is simply a combination of disk space (to store your files) and a server operating system (to run your site). Server Types There are two basic choices [...]

Getting Your First Sale

by Darren

Are you planning your first ecommerce site? Maybe you’re bogged down in the day to day process of running your site and need a lift? Here’s a little post to give you some inspiration or a fond smile of remembrance… It was winter 2008 and I was sat in front of my computer tinkering with [...]

My Ecommerce History

by Darren

Obviously if I’m writing and publishing articles on an ecommerce blog then I guess it would help if I knew something about ecommerce really… My first encounter with ecommerce came in 2005 although I had been developing websites in other fields for a few years before that. It was through my local SEO consultancy business [...]

5 Easy Link Building Tips for eCommerce Websites

by Darren

Here are some link building techniques with my take on them and how you could apply them to your eCommerce website. 1. Directory Links There are many website directories which are basically pages of links to other websites categorised together, examples of some directories are: Yahoo Directory Best Of The Web DMOZ – Open Directory [...]

How To Stop Google Analytics Recording Your Own Visits

by Darren

If you have recently launched a new ecommerce site (or any website for that matter) you will no doubt see your own website visits heavily skewing the reported results from analytics. Time spent on the website updating products and checking out other functionality can all be recorded by analytics programs. Similarly if you have an [...]

Where to locate your blog?

by Darren

If you run an eCommerce website, or any type of business website for that matter, and have decided that you want to run a blog alongside then where is the best place to locate it? You have 4 real options to choose from: Free blog hosting via WordPress.com, TypePad.com or some other free hosting platform [...]

SEO – In More Depth

by Darren

We have already established what SEO is and why it is very worthwhile for pretty much any type of website. Let’s now drill a little further down into some of the main areas of SEO and begin looking at how we can relate this to our eCommerce websites. I like to split SEO into 2 [...]

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