According to new research from Hitwise average daily visits to ecommerce sites from Thanksgiving through the Thursday before Christmas were up 5.9 percent compared to 2005. The days with the single biggest increases over last year were Cyber Monday the first Monday after Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day.
SEO-Friendly Ecommerce
One of the major drawbacks when taking the dynamic approach to web development is the resulting product not being optimized for the search engines. A number of issues contribute to this characteristic and most are them are correctable, but doing so is considered an advanced level of web design.
eCommerce Site Design: What do you Really Think?
Site design is a primary determinant in online shopping.
The Consumer Equalizer: eCommerce Blogging
With blog posts focusing on companies and their quality of service or lack thereof, what can you do to make sure you know how to handle negative posts about your company on blogs?
How does this help the consumer, and ultimately, companies? Can companies learn crisis management when situations flare up?
Let’s begin with the first question.
eCommerce Design: A Three Second Impression
“We find that Web sites have three seconds to make an impression.” – Jeff Rosenblum, Questus
Ecommerce: What Do Consumers Need?
“My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.” – Bill Bryson
eCommerce: I Second That Emotional Connection
“We are much more emotionally attached to products for which we feel some involvement. So true personalization and customization makes a real difference.” – Donald Norman (author)
Web 2.0 in eCommerce
There has never been a better time to start an online business! According to Jupiter Research, a market research firm, online retail spending in the United States will increase to a whopping $95 billion in 2006.
Ecommerce: New Horizons
In 2005 the largest ecommerce sites were for the following top five products or services:
Session ID’s Make Ecommerce Difficult
By and large, the biggest problems faced by ecommerce software is search engine visibility. The problem arises as the result of major search engines being unable to crawl the entire contents of a shopping system.