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Cautious shoppers respond to trust seals

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Saturday April 24, 2010 )

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…)


More to shop online for Mothers Day

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Thursday April 22, 2010 )

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

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Wednesday April 21, 2010 )

Don’t be surprised if banner ads start appearing on your child’s school’s web site soon. (more…)


Google Caffeine rolling out?

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Tuesday April 20, 2010 )

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

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Monday April 19, 2010 )

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?

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Sunday April 18, 2010 )

Will HTML5 and devices such as the iPhone and iPad help bring an end to Flash’s dominance? (more…)


Publishing rumors online

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Saturday April 17, 2010 )

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

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Friday April 16, 2010 )

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

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Tuesday April 13, 2010 )

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

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Saturday April 10, 2010 )

Google has announced that it is now taking into account site speed in its search ranking algorithms. (more…)