Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13

  • Free web site builder blog: http://www.officialsitebuilder.com/blog/ #
  • eCommerce tip (7): put the price under the image description as well. #
  • eCommerce tip (6): Make the images clickable as visitors always click on them and almost always get some clicks on the text under the image #
  • eCommerce tip (5): Use crazyegg to see what is happening on your product pages. #
  • eCommerce tip (4): If you reeeaaaaly have to use parameters, put in the rel=canonical tag and hope the engines get it right… AND pray 🙁 #
  • eCommerce tip (3): If you offer filters for sorting by price/sizes use javascript or ajax to avoid appending parameters onto the URL #
  • eCommerce tip (2): be careful with filters and parameters when dealing department pages. #
  • eCommerce tip (1): have the spiders to pass through the product pages, by using a noindex, follow meta tag and matching robots.txt setting. #
  • Global warming (2): The concerned citizen’s guide to global warming: http://bit.ly/8expMv #
  • Global warming: bad news – Hot and Getting Hotter – The Warmest Decade So Far #
  • 32 Spectacularly Useful Twitter Tools for fun and business: http://bit.ly/6w6AUE #
  • Learning about The Next Solar Frontier: Hybrid PV/Thermal Systems #
  • Targeting GMAIL in Google’s Content Network: http://bit.ly/71PIyu – give it a try:) #
  • Employee promotion: http://www.prevueassessments.com/products-solutions/succession-planning – Succession Planning and Promotion Solutions #
  • Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama #
  • If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion – HH the Dalai Lama. #
  • You’re invited to try the new AdSense interface…the beta is out !!! #
  • Finally a sunny day. Enjoying a warm coffee and looking at the ocean view… #
  • Discovery May Lower Cost of Algae Biofuel – Recent Finding Could Help Algae Grow More Efficiently, Making Cost Of Biofuel More Viable #
  • U.S. Energy Secretary say technology is being developed to convert biomatter as simple as yard waste into clean diesel fuel #
  • ecomerce tip (6): When a product goes out of stock, keep the page up and display a message saying that it’s not available for purchase. #
  • ecomerce tip (5): If you have at least 100 products I’d also go the XML sitemap route as well and ping all of the services. #
  • ecommerce tip (4): Try to keep title and page header/titles similar unless you can work variations. Keep your titles and descriptions unique #
  • ecommerce tip (3): avoid using URL parameters at all on the product level pages. #
  • ecommerce tip (2): follow up on tip 1: a product can be categorized in more than one department and sometimes products gets deleted by error #
  • ecommerce tip (1): instead of using this http://bit.ly/71Jnbw use this: http://example.com/product/product-name/ #
  • TRAFFIC TIP: Follow some controversial news, then hire forum members in the relevant communities to start “Did You Guys See This??!” threads #
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