Today, Google has officially released the Google +1 for websites. Previously it was only available for Google’s SERPs (search engine result pages). In today’s article we’ll show you how to install it on your Volusion store. Google +1 – What Is It? Google’s “+1” is their answer to Facebook’s Like button and is their push [...]
As a Volusion consulting firm we continually get asked about their performance and quality of hosting. If you’ve been around Volusion enough (or any ecommerce platform such as 3dCart, Big Commerce, etc.) the topic of site speed eventually comes up. When Google announced that page speed is a factor in organic rankings, the queries really [...]
Follow These Google Webmaster Tips to Ensure Holiday Traffic Finds You Hard to believe we’re weeks away from the holiday rush, isn’t it? For many retailers and business owners, the majority of your revenue is won or lost over the next 2 ½ months. Is your Volusion ecommerce store ready? Google’s Webmaster Tools will help [...]
Ad Click Through Rate is 55% Greater on Bing than Google Are Bing users more likely to buy or leave your site? It all depends on how you want to look at the numbers. The Chitika research has uncovered that if visitors organically found your website via Bing rather than Google, they are more that [...]
Are your SEO metrics relevant and useful? One of your duties as a SEO is provide meaningful KPIs (key performance indicators) for your clients. And when I say meaningful I mean something that: Reveals an underlying insight to their business; and Provides information that can help affect positive change Google Analytics are great for statistics [...]
Installing GA Tracking Reveals Valuable Ecommerce Metrics Although there are many ecommerce hosting solutions out there, from a SEO and small business perspective, Volusion is a tough act to beat. I’m a firm believer that a small business should focus on its core competency and only take on what’s absolutely necessary. I think hosting an [...]
Do you believe social media isn’t relevant to your small business? Most small business owners I talk to fall into one of these three categories: They do not understand what “social media” is and is not; or They believe it’s not a real business tool and will fade away; or They believe their business cannot [...]
For many of you, search engine optimization (SEO) makes perfect sense for your business while for others it’s a new concept. For you newbies out there or for those of you looking to justify the expenditure for a SEO project, here are just a few of many reasons why SEO for small businesses is critically [...]
7 Classic Signs You and Your Website need to Talk Ah, remember the rush you had in the beginning? The thrill of the first time you laid eyes on her and thought, “Oh yeah, just wait till everyone sees her…they’ll be so envious.” You’d tell people at the gym or at a party about her [...]