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Last year, Google replaced Google Product Search with a new service – Google Shopping. By July, the changeover will be complete in the UK. The most significant difference is that merchants that could previously list with Google for free will now have to pay to be included. So it’s important that everybody in the e-commerce marketplace understands Google Shopping. As ...

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Home Colours do exactly what their name suggests – brighten up your home with colourful, matching homewares and interior accessories. The company sources products from around the globe – seeking out the most inspirational designs. That’s probably why they came to iWeb for inspired e-commerce web design. Our skilled team were able to adapt the versatile Magento platform so that ...

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A Content Management System keeps your site fresh and up to date For some online businesses, a static web site is never going to be enough. And having to seek the help of a professional web developer every time you want to make a change isn’t ideal. This is where a Content Management System (CMS) can help. It allows you ...

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How fewer keywords might soon be the key You’ll doubtless have seen e-commerce web site design that hammers the same key words and phrases repeatedly in an attempt to attract the attention of search engines – known as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in the business. While machines may find this enticing, it doesn’t make great reading for we humans. But ...

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A quarter of all your e-commerce website traffic will soon come through mobile platforms The rapid adoption of smart mobile devices, such as the iPhone and the iPad, is changing how consumers interact with search engines faster than anybody anticipated. A recent study by e-commerce software company, Marin indicates that mobile devices will account for 25% of all paid-search clicks ...

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If you needed further evidence that e-commerce is massive in the UK and set to get even bigger, a recent study has confirmed it. The UK is ranked top of all G20 nations in terms of the amount the internet contributes to its GDP. Taken as a sector alone, that’s more than healthcare, education and construction. Some of the UK’s ...

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Whilst the spotlight is currently on social networking as the online marketing goldmine, it’s easy to forget that the good old blog still has its uses in e-commerce website design. Here are just a few ways in which more emphasis on blogging can benefit your business: Better search engine optimisation Blogs lend themselves to the type of content search engines ...

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The great thing about Magento e-commerce and WordPress in particular is they are open source platforms. There is a whole community of Magento developers out there designing new plug-in and apps – and some of them are very useful indeed. WordPress is easily the most popular platform used for blogging in ecommerce website design. So we’ve compiled a list of ...

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You can’t have failed to notice those ubiquitous little buttons found on many web pages exhorting you to ‘like’, ‘share’ or ‘Tweet’. These aren’t just put there for vanity or because of some need for validation – they’re actually valuable tools for selling. Search engines consider these social media signals as a good indicator of how web site users value ...

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Blogs – you may wonder what the point is. After all, is anybody really listening? Well, yes they are. What’s more, there is an audience out there for you. If you approach blogging in the correct way, you are actually building a brand for your e-commerce business. Major companies spend millions on branding activities through web development agencies every year ...

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Why a phone will be all you’ll need to shop by 2016. It wasn’t so long ago that people stood at supermarket checkouts writing personal cheques. With the introduction of chip and pin card payments, this soon began to look positively Victorian. The smart plastic was also a major leap in opening up the online marketplace by making payment easier. ...

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iWeb has given YourDesign.co.uk a fantastic new makeover with a whole new look and feel. This is the 3rd website iWeb has designed for the company in 9 years. Each site has evolved from the last to create an application that is class leading in its field. YourDesign.co.uk has an incredible range of products to personalise and make uniquely your ...

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