Archive for December, 2011

30 Dec

With China’s Dangdang.com Hacked, How Safe Is Yahoo! ?

Yahoo! Stores

In the increasingly active world of internet hackers, no website or platform is off-limits. The hacker profile doesn’t seem to be well-defined enough for international authorities to put an end to mischief, and to make matters worse some groups are compelled to hack sites for a wide array of reasons; political protest, profit, and curiously [...]

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29 Dec

Hybrid Advanced Search Feature Developed for Pink Bra’s Yahoo! Store

Yahoo! Stores

Ladies can attest: the right bra is hard to find, and that’s under optimal circumstances. Leaving customers to sort through a room full of inventory is worse than giving them a desk sized box full of red buttons, dropping a similarly sized pink one in, stirring it around and saying you have only minutes to [...]

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27 Dec

Yahoo! Store Development For Merchants Who Already Have a Store Design

Yahoo! Stores

Fledgeling merchants generally wet-land into the Yahoo! Store world thinking a) it will be everything they hoped (which inevitably it isn’t without custom handling), and then b) that every development agency takes a Swiss Army knife approach to MacGyvering them in and out of wet and crusty quicksand pits. Both of these assumptions are quickly [...]

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26 Dec

SEO Booster: Let Breaking News Guide Your Blog

Social Media

SEO is a difficult code to crack, but there are ways-and it doesn’t have to be black or even grey hat. One white hat SEO strategy many don’t consider is coinciding their blogs with breaking news. If you can get something out within hours of the story breaking, then it’s possible to ride the news [...]

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22 Dec

Case Study: How One New Blogger Increased Traffic 10-Fold in One Day

Social Media

It has become popular for ecommerce merchants to start blogs to improve search engine ranking and for marketing purposes of engaging and updating customers. Everyone seems to initially believe: Hey I’ve got a great product, and once I start blogging everyone will tune in. Let’s do it! However the reality is blog after blog yields [...]

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