Each month, Practical eCommerce asks industry insiders to share a great, innovative idea that could help an ecommerce company. Here’s what ten of them had to say for the June 2009 installment. Set yourself apart with visual security. “Making your commitment to security known by your customers . . .” http://practicalecommerce.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbe5f2f40f28348f9f57610b8&id=638db087d6&e=f4d75f1c4f
Are You Listed in the Open Directory Project Yet? http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/06/05/do-you-respect-dmoz-after-11-years
In response to a lawsuit filed by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa, Twitter decided to verify some accounts. Verified accounts will start with public officials, agencies, famous people, athletes and others. http://enews1.websitemagazine.com/m/010GdwUMsmpNc6pMl2hF04suthAnXbY9UsvYW7F7MHIRm_RvaA
CSS, Flash, jQuery, and an arsenal of other powerful web techniques and technologies have unbound website design, creating the opportunity to develop either exceptional user interfaces or really frustrating ones. Furthermore, the growth of “cookie-cutter” ecommerce templates (i.e., “insert your logo here”) has quelled . . .” http://practicalecommerce.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbe5f2f40f28348f9f57610b8&id=83e2bc8489&e=f4d75f1c4f
Microblogging site Twitter has the potential to be a powerful marketing and brand-building tool for ecommerce businesses interested in engaging their customers and being part of a community. But successful marketing on Twitter, or any microblogging site, requires more than just posting tweets about . . . http://practicalecommerce.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbe5f2f40f28348f9f57610b8&id=6d0f2b9674&e=f4d75f1c4f
PR Sculpting and Link Juice and No-Follow – Oh My We made a video at SMX Advanced with Stephen Spencer recently where we discussed (among other things) some changes expected(?) to be coming to Google in terms of the no-follow attribute. These no-follow changes have some pretty significant implications for lots of things, first and…
Spammers have found a new way to use Twitter. This one lets them harvest email addresses easily, and use these addresses to do their dirty business. The good news is that you can avoid this practice by simply not tweeting your email address. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/11/spammers-may-have-another-trick-in-twitter
We’re always into a good conspiracy theory – who isn’t? But this one about Google is a corker! http://blog.ineedhits.com/search-news/google-theory-are-pages-ranked-higher-on-specific-days-of-the-week-28136042.html
We’re always into a good conspiracy theory – who isn’t? But this one about Google is a corker! http://blog.ineedhits.com/search-news/google-theory-are-pages-ranked-higher-on-specific-days-of-the-week-28136042.html
Some employers think they own you when all they’re doing is renting your time. It cost 1 company $17.5 million to learn that stealing an employee’s hard drive is really, really stupid. http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=485&tag=nl.e550