Twitter is growing by leaps and bounds every day. By the last count Twitter.com had 58 million visitors worldwide during the last month. In addition, they just signed major deals with Microsoft and Google to supply them with a firehose of all Twittering Tweets. Twitter Tools You are only as good as the Twitter tools […]
List Your Products Free On ShopMania
ShopMania is a Price Comparison Engine a la PriceGrabber and Shopzilla that let’s you list your products for free if you put a seal on your site that says ‘Listed on ShopMania’. In addition, they also offer premium accounts where you pay a Cost-Per-Click (CPC) like on the other major shopping engines. The premium accounts […]
How Can eCommerceCircle Help You?
3 Months! As of today eCommerceCirlce.com has been live for 3 months. While this may not be such a long time, I’d like to ask you to help me in my journey and improve this blog. Help Me, Help You. Please look at the topics I have covered so far on the sitemap and let […]
10 More Essential Magento Extensions For Your Store
In a previous post we featured 10 really cool and useful Magento extensions for your store. Here is another selection of 10 more great extensions. 1 – Layered Navigation Pro Layered Navigation Pro allows you to customize the look and functionality of the layered navigation/search filters on your Magento store. You can use sliders, images, […]
How To Restrict Your Ad Position In AdWords
There is a cool feature in AdWords that allows you to restrict your ad to specific positions. This comes in handy if you know that a certain position, say position #3, has had the best performance historically. Here is how to set up Ad Positioning: Step 1 In the Campaign Settings, under Position Preference you […]
New Google AdWords My Client Center (MCC) Interface
It seems that Google is trying to standardize the new interface across AdWords. Aside from cosmetic differences, it does not seem to have any new features except for a newBudget tab. See screen shots below: I just noticed this link today in my MCC account: Is the new AdWords My Client Center interface active in […]
New Sponsored Search Section Google Product OneBox
I’m not sure if this is new or not (seems new to me) — Google is now displaying a Google Product Search OneBox on the top right of the Sponsored Search section. This is great for merchants as Google is really pushing Google Product Search in prime real estate. This is not to be confused […]
Product Categorization On Comparison Shopping Engines
Categorizing your products properly on each comparison shopping engine is one of the most important parts of your product listings. Sometimes having a product in the wrong category can get you many wasteful clicks and will cost you an arm and a leg at the same time. On the other hand, having your product in […]
Track Your Site Search Behavior With Google Analytics
A common feature that a lot of users miss is Google Analytics’ ability to track your site search queries. It’s very simple to enable, here’s how. Under Settings –> General Settings there is a section called “Site Search” Check the radio button that says “Do Track Site Search” Enter Search Query URL Parameter (Example: Search […]