Ecommerce Blog

Everyday millions of people use search engines to find new products and services and everyday sales are made due to these searches. Advertising in search engines helps expand an online business presence and gains site and brand awareness, while helping an online business stay competitive in their field. Fast Traffic is a full service pay per click advertising program, designed with the internet searcher in mind.

Fast Traffic determines the most effective and relevant keyword list for a client’s campaign, along with creating ad text and determining the most effective links to use. Using this information, Fast Traffic will promote a client’s business in the exact spot future customers are looking. It’s a fast and easy process for the client, saving company time and resources in having all of the work done by our team of experienced individuals, with expertise ranging from years of research in

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Dave breaks down a simple example of starting a new Wordpress blog including deleting original posts, adding/importing posts, organizing with categories, adding links, and integrating with Feedburner and Flickr.

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Elastic Path CEO Harry Chemko visits with UK-based gift and gadget retailer, “I Want One of Those.” After racing mini-cars and tiny motorcycles, IWOOT’s Angus and Simon offer insight into why they like Elastic Path, the benefits of using open source software, the importance of scalability and growing a successful retail storefront before getting back to “product testing” the shelves of unique toys.

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“What’s the quickest way to increase sales on my ecommerce site, without paying any money?” This was one answer to the question, “What have customers asked lately?” Little did anyone know that the routine evaluation would turn into something that has yet to be done in eCommerce, the development of free live chat software. Volusion Live Chat, a 100% hosted live chat software solution (meaning there’s nothing to install on your servers), is a FREE offer to any and all PC users (yes, even non-Volusion customers) wishing to have a way to communicate instantly with their online customers.

“We are constantly evaluating ways to help our online store owners sell more effectively and feedback is a part of how that’s determined” says James, Sales Manager at Volusion. In a monthly meeting, members of Volusion’s Sales Staff mentioned that several customers (whether current or future) had asked questions on how to find and install third party chat software on their site. Customers were catching on to the importance of getting answers to their online customers

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DaveO gets a lesson on using AJAX (not just for cleaning) for advanced web interface usability from the brilliant and humourous lads of E-Business Applications, Andre Charland and Alexei White.

Note: This is an ‘enhanced’ podcast filled with relevant photos and links (use your viewer window in the bottom left corner of iTunes).

While playing with Elastic Path “thinking putty,” they discuss ways to optimize the user experience, pros and cons of various technologies, the EBA Grid and Combo Box products and recap a few Gnomedex conference highlights - plus have some laughs about ski culture (gapers), community building, fantasy sports and the fleece-filled recreational equipment district of Vancouver.

Bonus Link Stash:
Ethan Kaplan (Warner Brothers Records’ Director of Technology and editor of REM fan site Murmurs )
Marc Canter - People Aggregator
Gnomedex - Chris Pirillo - Tag Jag - Blaugh (Friendster )
Flickr pics - Gnomedex, DogLotion, Gapers

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In a physical store, how many times have you scanned the aisles for a uniform and a nametag with an “Excuse me, do you″? If you′re like the majority of shoppers out there, more than you can count. The employees are there to offer help and that help often leads to either finding the right product, or assuring that the product is right for the purchaser.

The process of getting answers from an online store can be much more complicated. In a physical store, questions are either answered through the help of a store employee or through the customer’s own observation. When questions arise in an online store, which they often do, the customer is forced to abandon their online shopping process to either pick up the phone and wait for help or send an e-mail and wait for a response. Shopping online should be quick and

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Host DaveO chats with Elastic Path Software Engineer Justin Tilson about innovative and useful web tools to help Justin give away 10,000 adopted western red cedar trees.

Topics include RSS technology in general (your content wants to be found) and myriad free web apps including semantic web publishing (blogging) tool WordPress and WP’s mighty founding developer Matt Mullenweg, Vancouver superstar company Flickr (now Yahoo!), the very useful Feedburner from Chicago, video-sharing site Blip.tv, and a new browser built on Firefox called Flock - along with discussion of Google map mash-ups, the power of community collaboration and new web business models.

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Host Dave O and Elastic Path Systems Architect Frank Chin enjoy tasty beverages on the deck at Vancouver’s Cafe Milano (AKA Turk’s West).

Additionally, they talk about professional ecommerce development services, service oriented architecture, working with customers remotely, the joys of Vancouver life, Gnomedex con-fab, international training sessions, contributing to wikis, university management preparations and doing the right thing for customers while cars and trucks roll by on a beautiful summer day.

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As mentioned in a previous article, choosing the right keywords is perhaps the most important factor in search engine marketing and is essential to its success.

There are several things to consider when generating your keyword list, including your own website. If visitors are searching within your site using certain search phrases, it may be likely that these same search phrases are also being used in major search engines. Review your site’s search logs to understand what kind of information and products are being sought after, and then use that information to generate effective keywords.

This information will also come in handy when evaluating the efficiency of your site. In order

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As mentioned in a previous article, choosing the right keywords is perhaps the most important factor in search engine marketing and is essential to its success.

There are several things to consider when generating your keyword list, including your own website. If visitors are searching within your site using certain search phrases, it may be likely that these same search phrases are also being used in major search engines. Review your site’s search logs to understand what kind of information and products are being sought after, and then use that information to generate effective keywords.

This information will also come in handy when evaluating the efficiency of your site. In order

Original post by blogadmin

As mentioned in a previous article, choosing the right keywords is perhaps the most important factor in search engine marketing and is essential to its success.

There are several things to consider when generating your keyword list, including your own website. If visitors are searching within your site using certain search phrases, it may be likely that these same search phrases are also being used in major search engines. Review your site’s search logs to understand what kind of information and products are being sought after, and then use that information to generate effective keywords.

This information will also come in handy when evaluating the efficiency of your site. In order

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