With Black Friday looming at the end of the week, and the craziness of the holidays quickly approaching, we wanted to give some great stocking stuffer ideas to give you a boost for your online store.
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So, if you haven’t heard, Pinterest is now featuring a buy button on product pins on its network. So what does that mean for you and your business? Well, before we get into that, let’s just go over some of the statistics around Pinterest and what has made this one of the most successful social commerce platforms in recent memory.
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SEO today is nothing like what it was a few years ago; it continues to evolve and improve in order to give internet users the best possible experience. Search engine optimization is a vital part of building a healthy web presence – everyone, from technical architects and back-end developers to web designers and SEO experts know and accept that fact.
In spite of this, many web design and development teams approach SEO as an extra to take care of on completion of the project, forgetting or disregarding the fact that user experience is a vital component of any website. Even worse, some designers just do the barest minimum to ensure a site isn’t misbehaving, and then throw in a meta description here and an optimized tag there before calling it a day.
In order to realize any website’s maximum potential, search optimization must be just as important as the design phase; approached holistically and with due diligence. Every webmaster and business site owner will benefit by including SEO experts as early as possible in the project.
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On October 1, the major credit card brands shifted to a new security standard, otherwise known as the EMV shift. Transitioning to EMV requires merchants to make a significant investment in new technology, such as the implementation of a new terminal which can read the traditional magnetic stripe, but also, the new “chip and PIN” cards which are the new standard with debit and credit cards.
Now, if you’re thinking that because you’re an online merchant with no physical storefront that this doesn’t affect you, think again. Due to the new security technology, counterfeit card fraud will shift to the path of least resistance, which will be card-not-present (CNP) transactions, such as mobile and desktop purchases.
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Web Payment Software, Mountain Media’s premier merchant gateway service, now features payment and donation pages for Political Action Committees. Web Payment Software’s payment page solutions streamline the process of accepting donations and make it as painless as possible. WPS’s payment pages are hosted in our secure data center, saving you the hassle of strict PCI-DSS regulations. Supporters will be able to donate to your PAC and pay by credit card on simple, effective, and secure pages. Curious? You can check out some sample payment pages over on their website.
