Google rolling out e-commerce customer service ratings – Silicon Valley Business Journal
Starting soon, Google users will be able to rank smaller online retailers by shipping speed, email response times and more.

Three ideas that convert better than a standard carousel – Econsultancy
The conclusion, which all three of us share, is that unadulterated carousels are bad for business!

Using Twitter Hashtags for Ecommerce Marketing – Practical eCommerce
This article outlines 10 ways merchants can use hashtags, along with guidelines for their use.

FOUR PRICING PRINCIPLES TO NEVER FORGET – Intercom 
Geared more for software products or services but still contains useful information

ShopSite Tip – Consistent Image Resizing – Lexiconn
Sometimes a couple of products have images which are huge compared to their neighboring products.  Why are they so large?  It’s usually caused by the image resize settings.

The 10 Most Clickable Twitter Headlines – Mediabistro
Tests have shown that you can increase your conversion rate on a link by 73% when you write a compelling headline.

Pick Your Battles – The Wall Street Journal
Think a rival is taking anonymous swipes at you online? Follow these steps.

Two SEO Checks You Must Do Now – Lexiconn
Ever wonder how easy it is to lose your ranking in Google and Bing? Unfortunately,  a few of our clients found out how easy it was to lose ranking last week.

And in case you missed the latest ShopSite news, here’s a couple of announcements:

Avalara and ShopSite Partner on Sales Tax Integration – Avalara

ShopSite is now available on hosts that use the Softaculous Auto Installer – Softaculous

Here are some of the better posts for March.

7 YouTube Tips For Your Small Business -Business 2 Community
Educate your consumers, create how-to videos tutorials; educate them on your current industry trends and show them the benefits of using your products and services. If you are a golf coach, show people simple swinging techniques on YouTube; if you are a website designer, teach people how to create a quality website and so on.

The Easiest Way to Increase Conversion by 20% – Get Elastic
According to data from PowerReviews, increasing a product’s review count from 0 to 1 increases conversion by 20%.

ShopSite Merchant Proves Mobile Commerce is Only Getting Bigger – LexiConn
All they did to cater to the ever-increasing mobile customer is enable ShopSite’s built-in mobile commerce support. A few clicks, some configuration of categories, links, navigation, search, and their site was optimized for mobile viewing.

Better For Visitors. Better For Search Engines -Lauren Hills Design
Your pages should be structured in a way similar to a written out paper (yes, we are using some of those skills from English class).  Place the title of your page in a heading tag <h1>Title here</h1>.  Subtitles should be in <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, etc, tags respectively. Headings should not have “Description” as a title, but should incorporate keywords for that page such as “Sock Materials.”