McAfee recently analyzed the online shopping behavior of more than 163 million visitors and the millions of purchases they made over a two year period with some interesting results in relation to trust seals. (more…)
Cautious shoppers respond to trust seals
More to shop online for Mothers Day
According to a recent survey, a healthy chunk of people plan to purchase their Mother’s Day gifts and Father’s Day gifts online this year. (more…)
Schools selling online ad space
Don’t be surprised if banner ads start appearing on your child’s school’s web site soon. (more…)
Google Caffeine rolling out?
Have you noticed your site bouncing around in Google’s search engine results lately? You might be seeing Google Caffeine. (more…)
Profiting from expired gift cards
A new service where consumers can cash in their gift cards reveals some very interesting (and potentially profitable) data for online merchants still considering whether to offer gift cards or gift certificates – and a little inspiration as a side point. (more…)
HTML5 to kill off Flash?
Will HTML5 and devices such as the iPhone and iPad help bring an end to Flash’s dominance? (more…)
Publishing rumors online
As I’ve so often mentioned, often people mistake freedom of speech with freedom from responsibility. While some countries have laws protecting freedom of speech, that doesn’t necessarily mean bloggers, or blog commenters for that matter, are immune from being sued. (more…)
More web pages = more leads
This probably doesn’t come as a surprise – an analysis of over 1,400 companies shows a clear relationship between pages indexed by Google and the number of leads a company generates. But there’s a catch. (more…)
Survey: Internet “most essential” medium
A recent survey has found that the Internet has for the first time become more the important medium in the majority of American’s lives. (more…)
Site speed now a Google ranking factor
Google has announced that it is now taking into account site speed in its search ranking algorithms. (more…)







