Bill Hartzer

Chase Paymentech Says 2007 Online Holiday Retail Sales Grew by 29 Percent

Any interesting report is out today from Chase Paymentech, saying that the online holiday retail sales for 2007 grew by a whopping twenty nine percent. The sales volume and the actual number of transactions was gathered at ten of the biggest U.S. online retailer sites during the 2007 holiday shopping season. ...

Top Ten Most Significant eCommerce Developments of the Last Ten Years

The Software & Information Industry Association has come out with what they're calling the top ten most important eCommerce developments of the last decade. Google, launched in September of 1998, ranks amongst the highest. What's disappointing to me is that Google AdWords is on the list. I'm disappointed AdWords is ...

QuikOrder Awarded Patent for One-Click Internet Ordering in E-Commerce Transactions

QuikOrder, Inc. has been awarded U.S. patent no. 7,197,478 for an entry system for the placement of product and service orders via web. This new technology is different than the one-click checkout technology offered at Amazon.com. The QuikOrder technology is called FAVORDER and is the first truly one-click solution for ordering ...

Vertex Internet to Host Maximizing ROI through ECommerce Webinar

Vertex Internet is hosting an interesting ecommerce-related webinar titled "Maximizing ROI through ECommerce". If you're responsible for maximizing ROI with an ecommerce site, you might want to check out this webinar on April 13th. Vertex Internet, a web application development company near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is hosting a free webinar entitled Maximizing ...

MarketNet Expands E-commerce Services

I'm glad to announce that we're expanding our e-commerce services and hired Matthew Brown to head our e-commerce practice. I'm currently the head of our Search Engine Marketing practice here at Marketnet.com. Matthew Brown, who Mr. Brown has over 12 years e-commerce experience in the domestic and international markets, most recently ...

GoDaddy Offers Extended Validation Certificates

GoDaddy.com(R), largest world's largest registrar, is now offering the new Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates. You can use GoDaddy now to purchase them and install them immediately. EV SSLs set a higher standard for secure sites. GoDaddy.com now offers three types of SSL certificates: Go Daddy(R) Turbo SSL(R), High Assurance SSL, ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 4 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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