According to Baseline Magazine, LinkedIn was recently hacked, and over six million passwords were stolen. If you can’t log into your LinkedIn account, then it’s likely your account was hacked. In this official message, it’s clear that LinkedIn is restoring accounts and apologetic, but the issue here isn’t necessarily LinkedIn’s responsiveness to such a system
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Yesterday, we published a guest blog by Michael Hurwitz, Marketing Specialist at Chinese Pod  on “How to Market to China’s Internet Shoppers.” Today that article continues below, as Mr. Hurwitz discusses some of the key strategies Western ecommerce merchants should become familiar with before marketing to China’s internet shoppers:   Chinese SEO Search engine optimization
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By guest blogger Michael Hurwitz, Marketing Specialist at Chinese Pod Many retailers may be intimately familiar with the ups and downs of sourcing products and materials from China, but fewer have experience with marketing products on China’s internet, both those made here in China and those manufactured abroad. There’s no question that China’s economy is
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Over the weekend, FastPivot relaunched with a better, brighter look and easier to navigate website. It’s amazing how cluttered things can get and worn a certain look becomes after only a couple of years. We always suggest to our clients that a major overhaul or redesign should happen at least every couple of years, so
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WordPress.org  has become more popular in the last few years. Those who wanted slick websites started turning to WordPress’s creative open community for options outside of the way the platform had traditionally been used for blogging. There are numerous professional website templates available for affordable prices, and there are a wide assortment of plugins to
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Everyone in the ecommerce world knew when Google’s moon sized Panda update crashed landed into legitimate ecommerce sites all over the planet. It wasn’t intended to atomize etailer SEO like it did–the real target for Google’s updates has always been spam (often favoring big brands)–but the drop in traffic and sales many felt was a
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As an agency specializing in web design, we often get asked questions that seem simple, like, “What is the best font to use for websites.” It would be nice to be able to summarize an answer for that question in one or two words, but alas there are more fonts than stars these days. It
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In a blog last week, we mentioned that we have programmer job openings for those proficient in rtml, java, css, html, Magento, and Netsuite. But, now there’s more. We’ve also added a Drupal job opening to the list. Even if you’re not a Drupal programmer and you’re reading this, we hope you’ll pass the announcement
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Backlinks are at the heart of good SEO, after solid content. Without original, appealing, relevant content, who would want to link back to your site? Well, a lot of folks actually, which is precisely why we’re writing this blog. But beware, those who link back to poor content, or without qualifying might as well be
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We’ve talked lately so much about how U.S. etailers should be pursuing international business, and how whenever an online retailer opens shop they essentially become an international business without knowing it; whether or not global traffic is converted into sales or not is a different story. Just as we’re pointing out how U.S. merchants need
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