Supercharge your URLs for SEO

| Stephan Spencer

When optimizing URLs for high rankings, many websites pay little attention to optimizing the URL for maximum clickthrough. Yet the URL undeniably affects searcher clickthrough rates in the search engine results pages. MarketingSherpa demonstrates this in its eyetracking study published in its Search Marketing Benchmark Guide in recent years.

Video: Pinny Gniwisch on Social Commerce

| MCM staff

Ice.com founder Pinny Gniwisch spoke about social commerce at Shop.org on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Gniwisch shared his thoughts about social commerce after the session with Multichannel Merchant senior writer Tim Parry.

Q&A: Dale Traxler Talks About Facebook Commerce

| MCM staff

The vendor community is singing the praises of Facebook stores, although studies suggest f-commerce is not in the best interest of merchants. But with the holiday season approaching, should online retailers invest in Facebook commerce? Multichannel Merchant senior writer Tim Parry caught up with Dale Trexler, owner of retail and wholesale jewelry supply seller Beaded Impressions, for his thoughts on Facebook Commerce.

Catholic Company Does QR Code Correctly

| Tim Parry

Trinity Road vice president of ecommerce Nicholas Cole wanted to know what we thought of the QR code it used in The Catholic Company’s recent catalog. Here’s why we thought they did it well.