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Yoast WordPress Breadcrumbs Plugin
Taking the advice from yesterdays post ‘Google SEO Starter Guide Updated’ on adding a breadcrumb to the sites theme, I remembered seeing a plugin from Yoast.com a few days back. Installation was done in seconds, almost like every other WordPress plugin, unfortunately the auto insert option did not work, however within a few pastes in the files page.php, search.php and single.php it was in and working. If you’re an avid blogger and … [Full Article >> ]
18% Wasted – Your Most Important eBay Marketing Asset
Thats right here is the best way to waste 18% of your most valuable asset on eBay, the Listing Title. You make your listing titles on eBay look pretty by including ‘=’ and ‘-’ symbols. No idea what I’m taking about? See this item: 230526814009. Here is the listing title: THOMAS TAKE ALONG === Thomas&The Jet – Die Cast === NEW So lets count this up there is: 6 x ‘=’ 1 … [Full Article >> ]
Google Does Not Use The Meta Keywords Tag
Myth, hear-say or Truth? Truth! Google does not use the meta Keywords tag. Contrary to popular belief usage of this tag for anything meaningful was lost years ago when it got spammed & stuffed by everyone and his dog. Offsite ‘factors’ were not being taken into account and pages were judged by search engines only on their content. Seems crazy now looking back. Here is a YouTube video from Matt Cutts, a personal idol of mine … [Full Article >> ]
Why You Should Not Use Magento
Following on from my earlier post on ‘Why You Should Use Magento‘, now for Magento’s negative side. Magento is a beast, if its not the depth of the user interface, its hundreds of settings to get used to or just the sheer scale of it. I’ll be completely honest with you, it took me two three attempts to get to grips with it, that’s slightly concerning as I would like to think … [Full Article >> ]
Revamp of Link Reports In Google Webmaster Tools
Googles Webmasters blog has announced that they have updated the link reports shown in thier Webmaster tools. Google Webmaster Tools allow users to check up and analyse lots of different information that Google house on your authentication domain names and best of all its free. If you’re not using the Google Webmaster Tools, see here and sign up today. With the new reports, they show you three new things as a general overview: The top domains that are … [Full Article >> ]
eBay Buyer Message Spam @ 99%
eBay Buyers, they really are nut cases. Following on from my previous post eBay V’s Amazon – Its a ‘Trust’ thing, Trust is undoubtedly one of the core reasons behind this non-shocker I got in my mail: Great customer communication is important for your success, especially when preparing for the Christmas period. We have worked with sellers to analyse the most effective way to reduce buyer questions. Did you know … [Full Article >> ]
The Facts: ChannelAdvisor’s Featured Retailer – LeSports
One of the huge benefits of being a consultant, is that you can enter a business with a completely fresh look at it. Not influenced by any of the day-to-day operations, any historic issues or misconceptions created in the business by itself and can work from the cold numbers. A few weeks back I was intrigued by the big Channel Advisor PR wheels moving and spotted one of their featured sellers ‘LeSports Ltd on YouTube. The video … [Full Article >> ]
Why You Should Use Magento
Magento has really taken off in the past year or so, but behind the buzz there are some things that really grind my gears and others that make me flutter with excitement. I wanted to begin by highlighting the pro’s and con’s of Magento, but they were too numerous to list together. I’ll post a detailed analysis of why Magneto may or may not be for you in the near … [Full Article >> ]
Amazon Product Advertising API Oct 15th Deadline
For anyone else who uses the Amazon Product Advertising API, there are some major changes coming that have an October 15th deadline. The biggest alteration to the API is the removal of customer reviews from being sent, instead a link to the review on Amazon is returned. They are saying this is because of the high load of data being transferred and the keyword of the entire update is ‘Efficiency’, while … [Full Article >> ]
eBay V’s Amazon – Its a ‘Trust’ thing
Well after another quick read of the feed reader, there is an announcement that eBay is to spend a huge wedge of cash sending out some postcards, no not to promote products or sellers found on the site, but ‘Trust’. eBay really cannot shrug that carboot sales & miss-trust thing they have got in-ground. Its major difference between them[eBay] and Amazon. Amazon is thier marketplace and ‘allow’ other sellers to sell on thier marketplace, not … [Full Article >> ]
The Worst Shopping Experience I ever had Joomla & VitueMart
I’ve got to share this with you, I have seen, used, owned, altered, tweaked, abused and been through enough shopping carts now to spot a bad one, but this took the biscuit and ran away and ate the shop, it was that bad. Lets set the scenario, my dad, far from being anywhere near internet savvy can just about brose the net and check his email. Any shopping cart system … [Full Article >> ]
eBay Conspiracy Theory Overview : Part 1
Here are a few things for you to chew over, I’m not saying these are true, they’re probably utter rubbish, but… they do have enough in them to at least be partly true, right? Here are my eBay conspiracy theories, don’t expect too much detail yet, I’ll beef these out in further posts over the next few days: eBay does whatever it can to keep the seller ‘entertained’ on the eBay marketplace, so … [Full Article >> ]
Oh dear, They Really Shouldn’t
Well been hovering thinking of all the cool topics I should blog about, then out of the blue from the AuctionBytes site and chestnut appears. It reads ‘eBay Selects Joomla to Launch Employee Collaboration Tool‘. Oh dear god no!!! I’ve been through most open source CMS systems and Joomla is the most hacked to pieces one of them all. I’m not posting the site I use to check the latest vulnerability list … [Full Article >> ]
