Bridging the Gap Between E-Commerce and Digg

Bridging the Gap Between E-Commerce and Digg

Most marketers know by now that social bookmarking sites such as Digg offer huge benefits. In and of themselves, they can drive huge amounts of traffic (into the 10′s of thousands from a single frontpage story on Digg), as well as sometimes providing a one-way dofollow link to help your SEO efforts. The benefit extends [...]

Managing Large-Scale Category Structures

Managing Large-Scale Category Structures

Niche stores that focus on a small range of products have a luxury of often being able to limit their top-level categories to a few choices. An old rule of thumb was to aim for seven choices in any navigation menu, based on Miller’s Law, which states that the human mind can only remember 7 [...]

How Well Do You Protect Your Customers’ Privacy?

How Well Do You Protect Your Customers’ Privacy?

Internet users have always been wary of providing personal and financial information online, but as the web has grown, so has the number of transactions, as well as the number of sites seeking orders for products or services. Customers have grown more accustomed to providing their information to many kinds of businesses, but privacy concerns [...]