I was approached to join an affiliate program today and everything looked good until I logged in. The statistics area was “under development”. (more…)

This isn’t just a rumor. Google has had enough of the constraints placed upon it by the Chinese government and will cease filtering results, knowing full well this may be the end of Google.cn. (more…)

If you’re requesting customers to participate in a survey; be sure the request at least appears to comes from you. (more…)

Some interesting results on a survey carried out with ten big box retailers regarding their spend on PPC keywords and resulting traffic vs. traffic from free listings; i.e. natural or organic search. (more…)

A recent survey indicates that the American online population seems to have remained static in terms of percentages. Time to tackle the final frontier of local holdouts – the 65+ age group. (more…)

2010 will be the year for M-Commerce – ecommerce via smartphones and other handheld devices. After years of it being the Next Big Thing; it finally is. However, this poses some challenges for online merchants. (more…)

If you’re involved with ecommerce, you are part of one of the best performing industries in the past decade. That knowledge and a few bucks will get you a cup of coffee ;). (more…)

The silly season is often followed by the complaints season. While some customers will whinge and exaggerate for the sake of it or in order to try and squeeze something out of a merchant they aren’t entitled to, others have valid complaints that need to be dealt with very carefully. (more…)

The word “Beta” comes from the second letter of the Greek alphabet and directly translates to mean “full of bugs”. Well, that’s actually not true, but you would sometimes think it’s the case. (more…)

If you’re only getting a few bucks per thousand impressions for advertising on your site, these figures will certainly make you drool – or if you’re an advertiser, make you cringe. (more…)