E-commerce technology

Screen Pages has set out details of its all new Magento hosting service, optimised for performance and scaleability.

Customer-written content, in the form of product reviews, community Q&A and shared stories, can both drive down search acquisition costs and improve natural search results.

New research from Scene 7 saying that over 90% of online merchants to add rich media and social networking functions in 2009. (As a rich media supplier, we could have guessed a big number).

A lot of online debate about the merits of Zappo’s new search interface. Most commentators laud the innovation, ease of use and stimulus to “explore” the shoe ranges on offer. We await the quantative feedback…

Visa is so committed to PCI/DSS that it has launched a video that puts it into perspective. We are pleased to see that our security partner One-SEC is interviewed.

The pros and cons of Amazon’s e-commerce practices…

Implementing zoom on an e-commerce website can increase sales by 90% and reduce returns by 10%, according to Delightful Deliveries. Image production costs can be reduced by 50% by allowing the customer to manipulate a single high-quality image. For examplees of zoom-enabled e-commerce websites by Screen Pages, see Isabella Oliver and White Stuff.

Over 90% of merchants surveyed rank customer acquisition, converting browsers to buyers and customer retention, says a new report from Exmplar and the Etailing Group in the USA, reports Yahoo!