Top 50 online retailers for the month of October 2008. Higlights are rises in event tickets, fashion, groceries and computers, while travel falls lower than usual.
Amazon.co.uk (1), Argos (2), Play.com (3) and Tesco (4) lead the field as usual. M&S makes it into the top five for the first time and John Lewis (13) reaches another all-time high.
Shop.org has posted some valuable pre-christmas research which should help most retailers inform their plans.
72% of the Fortune 500 companies barely showed up at all in the first 100 search results on terms that those companies bid on for paid search placement.
If you are stuck with a colour and have no idea what complementary colours will look good, check this site out COLOURLovers.com. It's a resource that monitors and influences colortrends.
COLOURlovers gives the people who use colour - whether for websites, ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification -a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
We like the latest website palette column.
We're very excited about the latest version of Google Analytics which has a number of great new tools in it for online retailers. See Google's anaytics blog for a summary.
We were asked what our views were on the best day to email & guessed (well, more opined based on anecdotal evidence) and said "Thursday". I nearly added "lunchtime". I was asked why and felt iffy about revealing anecdotal material.
We can all be amused by the concept of the "magic buy button". Enjoy the video...
We have commented on 404 pages before - those little unhelpful pages that appear on an e-tailer's site especially when those products aren't in stock or available anymore. For websites with a higher product churn, this can be a frequent event.