Search engine optimization best practices often preach major do’s and major don’ts for both small and big businesses. When not followed, these factors could lead to lower online sales and ineffective SEO campaigns. While you witness your competitors commit these top mistakes, why not be the better company and make sure that these common search…
Any website that conducts secure transactions should have SSL encryption. All businesses, from banks to ecommerce sites, need SSL to protect not only financial information of the customers but also to protect the website and its business. Secure Sockets Layers are protocols that allow secure communications to happen in the World Wide Web. Hackers are…
Previously, we enumerated three tangible benefits that a company can gain from having an in-house SEO team – meaning that instead of outsourcing SEO professionals, SEO campaigns will be done by those who work internally for the company. These three tangible benefits include performance data and reports, small SEO changes, and time and money saved…
Is your e-commerce enterprise on the right business track? There are several metrics that will help you determine if you are. But for starters, here are five habits that all highly effective e-commerce merchants–big or small–should have. 1. Think like a customer. Once you become an entrepreneur, it is easy to forget what it feels…
Previously, we opened the discussion on building a mobile site for your users and having it optimized for smartphones. Doing mobile SEO is actually no different from traditional forms of SEO. There has to be content infused with relevant keywords that search engine crawlers can find. The following concludes the article on whether mobile SEO…
In the recently concluded Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibit 2011, panelists shared an unlikely piece of advice to e-commerce merchants: stop worrying (too much) about making a sale. Instead, online entrepreneurs should work on engaging customers and gaining their long-term loyalty as compared to working towards one-time-only transactions. In an article for the Internet Retailer,…
While many experts recommend that companies hire SEO firms and professionals, there are still a few good reasons to build an in-house SEO or have an SEO consultant to do search engine optimization and other internet marketing techniques for your business. Bob Tripathi of Search Engine Watch divides the benefits of having an in-house search…
As an e-commerce merchant, you would certainly want to know more about your customers. How often do they want to receive information from you? Which sort of products and services are they really interested in? There are many ways to do it–some complicated, some simple. But according to Get Elastic’s Linda Bustos, the simplest way…
The rise of smartphones gave way to the rise of mobile SEO. With smartphones packed with impressive hardware and software, it is easy to see why consumers prefer doing mobile searches on their HTC, Android, iPhone, and Blackberry phones. Equipped with minimum requirements of 1Ghz processors, 4G connections, and browsers that can do Flash and…
E-mail marketing is perhaps the most personal type of Internet marketing. Your Internet marketing expert should know that this is a rather delicate type of online marketing to pursue, given the notoriety of spam messages. However, if you can successfully win over your potential clients with e-mail, it will go a long way to help…
