Search Engine Optimization Equals Success

Marketing your business online to achieve success for long term gains should require search engine optimization in your process. Your competitors are most probably utilizing the power of this very important prerequisite to succeeding on the Internet to take advantage of attracting the large volume of highly qualified customers that otherwise would be going towards…

Search Engine Optimization Tip: Moving Domains

Change is inevitable, especially in the world of e-commerce. And one common change e-commerce merchants know is changing domains. Some changes are good but this is one change that can hurt an online business’ search engine optimization efforts, whether knowingly or unknowingly. A sudden domain change can affect your search engine rankings because major search…

Top Five Open Source Platforms for Ecommerce Website Designers

Tripwire Magazine, a weblog catered to the web designers and developers, has recently named the top 15 open source platforms for ecommerce website designers, useful for both professional internet marketers and individuals that desire to start their own online store. Open source platforms allow users to modify, change, and improve the software. Here are the…

Facebook Turning Your Comments Into Ads

When Facebook was “cool” Remember when Facebook was “cool”? It was only a few years ago when Facebook was a start-up with a clean interface, exclusively focused on college students. For a short time, Facebook stood its ground, refusing to become another tool for “the man” (a.k.a. big business) to use, a path that infested…

Choosing Your Search Engine Optimization Partner

The year 2011 brings with it many lessons from the past year, as well as new trends and technologies to learn and watch out for. Social media marketing has taken center stage and has proven itself indispensible for ecommerce merchants. However, ecommerce merchants should not neglect their search engine optimization needs. In the world of…

NFC Payment Functionality Coming To Iphone 5?

A few posts back, we highlighted CodeBroker’s coupon loyalty solutions technology. Codebroker’s technology enables retailers to send coupon barcodes via text to customer smartphones. The barcodes that appear on smartphone screens then may be redeemed by using special optical barcode scanner at a physical retailer site. It’s a nifty and innovative concept that is sure…

Google Buys Out fflick – Tweet Analyzer And Organizer

In their never-ending quest for world domination, Google has acquired fflick, a Twitter analytics tool developed to track user tweets about movies. Fflick tracks tweets and organizes them based on most recent, most positive, negative, what your friends say, etc. Unlike Groupon, which was reluctant to accept the Empire’s $5.3 billion deal, fflick’s small start-up team…

Twitter Spring Cleaning: Clean Out Your Un-Followers

If you’re following over 2,000 people on Twitter and tried adding 2,000 plus 1, you might have been blocked by Twitter and received a popup message reading something along the lines of: “Could not follow user: You are unable to follow more people at this time.” Upon further inspection, an explanation on why you got…

CodeBroker Introduces Mobile Coupon Loyalty Solution For Retailers

The internet is the hub for every great shopping deal out there. There once was a time when customers had to wait the week, skim through Sunday ads for the best deals, and cut coupons. You could walk down to your neighborhood store and would most often find what you were looking for easily without…