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CubeCart 5 Beta

on January 17, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: ecommerce

When we opened our e-commerce store almost 2 years ago I spent a lot of time researching shopping cart software. Now I knew this would be both an important decision. Shopping cart software is a major influence on the success (or failure) of any e-commerce website.

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Tasapspider/0.9

on December 23, 2009 - 1 Comment
Categories: bots

Just found this “bot” going crazy on a site that is on a dedicated server, took the entire server offline. This bot looks to be new and from China, so be on the lookout.

Other reports are saying it is ignoring the robots.txt file, so might not be good enough to deny it there.

It was coming from 218.28.29.236

Here are more details about that IP, and what ranges you might want to block.

http://whois.domaintools.com/218.28.29.236

I placed the following in my .htaccess file


order allow,deny
deny from 218.28.
deny from 218.29.
allow from all

Please post a comment if you this bot has hit your site.

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Short Meta Descriptions Can Kill Your Website

on December 22, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: tips

Traffic Drop

If you look at the graph above you will see the nice steady growth of a website. Then suddenly a drop! The site in question dropped from an average of over 100 unique visitors per day down to less than 5 per day. Quite a significant drop! Once I was sure the drop was going to stick, I made a few minor changes and then just left the site alone for a long time. Yes, I was disappointed, but it was not something I had time or ambition to address at the time.

Note: you will see on the chart short regain of traffic, but this seems to be a normal “blip” that can happen as rankings are sorted out across Google data centers.

Fast forward a month or so, and I am looking in through the webmaster tools, and happen to notice the HTML suggestions section under Diagnostics. There I see a line that says: “Short meta descriptions x,xxx”, which is just about every single page of the site. Immediately I fix the problem with the meta descriptions.

The Google Word on Meta Descriptions

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Tracking Email Marketing Results

on November 27, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: code, ecommerce

successful-email-marketing

Find out if users are reading and responding to your email newsletters. This simple method will determine a direct correlation between newsletter clicks and sales.

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Website backups

on September 17, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: code, tips

backup-with-ncftpHow to automate website backups.

Follow this very simple procedure to schedule your website backups. You will be glad you did.

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Spinn3r Bot

on August 28, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: bots

Spinn3r is a bot that indexes blog posts.

Looks like this in your log files.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1; aggregator:Spinn3r (Spinn3r 3.1); http://spinn3r.com/robot) Gecko/20021130

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