Optimizing your e-commerce website for search engines can be grueling, time-devouring, brain-draining work. At times, you may feel like you spend more time blogging, doing keyword research, and tweaking your website than actually selling stuff. It’s not easy work, especially if you’re doing all the heavy lifting. But there’s a silver lining: you don’t have […]
Links are powerful SEO juice for e-Commerce websites. There’s an art to creating a strong link architecture and leveraging internal and external links to get the most from your efforts. This mini guide covers some of the basics of link building that you can put to work today. Importance of Link Building in SEO Links […]
Since its inception, online shopping has had its clear advantages over shopping in-store: bigger selection, no travel required, online discounts, and often times lower prices. But one of its biggest competitive advantages is about to be stripped away as we know it: the tax-free advantage. The Era of Tax-Free Shopping is Ending In the years […]
Business blogs make sense for major brands, consultants, and professional service providers where showing authority is critical. But does an e-Commerce website need a blog? The answer is a resounding Yes! Blogging is a powerful, yet inexpensive tool that can be used in many different ways to help you connect with customers, promote your products, […]
Miva Video Tutorial The Miva Merchant Elements framework and Shadows ReadyTheme ships with the “Cash” Javascript library instead of jQuery. This is fine as-is but, a lot of 3rd party plugins have been developed over the years and they require jQuery. So as soon as you want to do something from your preferred toolbox you’ll […]
Miva Video Tutorial: How to Import Data with Leading Zeros and Special Chars The dreaded product codes with leading zeros, custom fields for UPC codes, and avoiding data corruption with special characters from other languages like French and Spanish for example. When importing these into Excel the zeros could be converted to a scientific notation or non […]
In a world of “handmade is cool”, it is easy to get caught up in the lure of “custom is better”. Who doesn’t want to be the guy in the office with the prestigious handcrafted eyewear? After all, someone consulted with him on his personal style and tastes, and spent 22 hours carving out the […]
Choosing an eCommerce platform for your small business website isn’t a decision to take lightly. Much of your store’s success will rely on the service provider you choose to help you deliver the best user experience. Your entire business banks on the ability to deliver continuous service, security features, the right integrations, and a visually […]
Customer Help/Instructions Feel free to use the following helpful instructions, if you had Glendale Designs install the Miva abandoned cart functionality on your site. Keep in mind that these instructions are STORE specific and may be slightly different on your particular Miva store. Please contact us if you need help integrating the initial abandoned cart […]
The default setting in PayPal is to NOT send the customer’s phone number back to Miva. Why? Who knows; but here is how to fix that. […]