I bet you’re looking to stand out in the search engines. Right? Of course, we all are. Especially e-commerce sites, whose business often is so completely tied to search engine traffic. Although we usually focus on getting our pages ranked higher, it’s also important to make those listings enticing enough that people want to click [...]
If you’ve read this blog for awhile, ever talked to me, know what I do for a living, or have anything else to do with me in any other way, you probably know that I eat, sleep, and breathe e-commerce…and that my usual platform of choice is Miva Merchant. I’ve used other systems on occasion, [...]
Many Miva Merchant users are familiar with Chuck Lasker and the various ways he’s been involved in the Miva community over the past several years. We caught up with him at the 2009 Miva Merchant conference to ask him ten questions about his new endeavor, MerchantTutorials.com. Find out how he got started with Miva Merchant, [...]
Because we do a lot of redesigns and offline development, our customers usually have at least two stores operational at one time – the live store and a development platform. Sometimes that makes it hard to test, though, if links from the development site link back to the live site half of the time. You [...]
The great thing about having a blog for your business is that it gives customers and search engines new content to view. It can increase sales by convincing customers of your product’s benefits, or teaching them how to use it, or giving them ideas for incorporating the product into the lives.
For web development purists, the holy grail of coding an ecommerce site using an off-the-shelf package is the ability to write a fully standards-compliant site. The upcoming Miva Merchant 5.5 release brings this desire into full reality for Miva Merchant developers. Version 5.5 offers a completely-open page templating system, where all aspects of the site [...]
URL Rewriting is a way of changing the URLs within a website to a more logical and/or more search engine-friendly format. The default URLs within a Miva Merchant site are long and full of querystring variables, and can easily be rewritten to cleaner formats, as described below. To find out if this is available for [...]
