What is involved in selling things online? (e-commerce)

There are many options out there for e-commerce websites. WordPress/WooCommerce, Shopify, 3d Cart, Big Commerce, and many more. We have experience working with the most popular ones. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. While WooCommerce is free to download, there are many paid add-ons required to start selling products online. You will need a merchant account, a payment processor, an SSL certificate, and a fast website host. Prices can vary based on how many products you want to sell. Some companies will provide product feeds that can be uploaded to the website to save time and money. E-commerce websites can be very time consuming depending on the number of products and product variations you would like to sell. Keep in mind there is a lot of competition out there, figure out what makes you different, and capitalize on it.

Google Warning To Non-Mobile Friendly Web Sites

By Dave Fogel | January 19, 2015

Today one of the sites we work with got a message in their Google Webmaster Tools.  The message titled “Fix mobile usability issues found on yoursite.com” basically informs the site own that because “These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users.”…

Google losing market share

By Dave Fogel | January 14, 2015

Recently posted in the Wall Street Journal, Market researcher Statcounter says Google’s share of U.S. search traffic, excluding mobile devices, declined to 75.3% in December from 77.5% in November, after the maker of the Firefox browser made Yahoo the default search engine. Yahoo YHOO -1.05%’s share of search traffic excluding mobile devices grew to 10%,…

Can good links solve Penguin Problems

By Dave Fogel | January 12, 2015

In a recent video hangout with Google’s John Mueller, John said that even without using the disavow file or removing bad links, it is possible to recover from a Google Penguin Penalty.  So instead of going through all the trouble of removing bad links and creating a disavow file, Google is saying adding good links…