Netbook Winners

It delights me to say that I’m convinced after IRCE that E-retailing remains a bright spot in this dark economy and it was fantastic to see people searching for new ways to improve the performance of their websites.We met a lot of enthusiastic online retailers at the show and to those who dropped by our […]

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Interview with Bliss Dake from Mighty Leaf Tea

Today we released an  interview with Bliss Dake from Mighty Leaf Tea. Mighty Leaf Tea sell high end  tea pouches and loose tea and they seem to be at the forefront of a growing trend. Bliss described how Mighty Leaf Tea get a lot of their traffic in a unique way. A lot of people […]

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Interview with Josh Hansen from HansenSurf

  This week we released an interview with Josh Hansen from HansenSurf on the ecommerce podcast. Josh is the youngest son of the founder Don Hansen. HansenSurf started as a surfboard manufacturer before moving into retail in 1971. I enjoyed listening to the story of this family run store and how ecommerce is playing a larger […]

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Add Some Color to Your Web Site – and the Site Search

Over time companies have come to recognize that populating a web site with lots of images significantly improves the user experience. This is especially true for e-commerce sites, where people shopping online always like to see a picture of what they’re going to buy. For many sites it’s even more compelling when shoppers can view […]

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Interview with Tim Ash from Site Tuners

We have just released an interview I did with Tim Ash from Site Tuners. I met Tim by chance at a Search Engine Strategies show a few years ago. We had a lot in common – both running companies that helped ecommerce sites improve their conversions – and we had both done PhDs in artificial intelligence […]

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Site Search and Improving Conversions – Webmaster Radio

Last week Shaun Ryan, CEO of SLI Systems was interviewed for Landing Page Optimization on Webmaster Radio by Tim Ash, CEO of Site Tuners. Tim and Shaun discuss various ways to improve your site conversion rates. Listen to the interview with Shaun Ryan & Tim Ash.

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FitBase

At SLI we help visitors to an ecommerce site find the products they want, but how can you, as an ecommerce manager, find the best solutions for your eCommerce business? What strategies work in your vertical? What new features are going to add to your bottom line vs. just adding to your expenses? Who has […]

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A critique of ABCNews search

ABCNews recently announced they had improved their design, navigation and search.  I took a look at it and had a few comments. It’s nice to see images in the search results – although I think they could be a little larger. It’s also good to have refinements and sort options. OR Search I noticed that […]

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Will Google suggest mess up referral stats?

Last week it was announced that Google’s search suggestion feature is being updated. The major changes are: You will see results and ads in the suggestions, along with the keyword suggestions (it looks like only one result and ad at any time) The suggestion feature will be rolled out to the standard search results page […]

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