#SeoTips Back in 2009 I asked a marketing contact at Overstock.com about possibly interviewing Patrick Byrne, the CEO. “I’ll ask him,” the contact replied. An hour or two later, I received an email — from Patrick Byrne. He was available. The d...

#SeoTips Lori McDonald is the founder and CEO of Brilliance, a prominent B2B ecommerce development firm. As of February, she’s also the owner of a specialty food manufacturer called Norsland Lefse. Why would a busy web development executive ac...

#SeoTips I last spoke with Mark Daoust in late 2022. His firm, Quiet Light, a digital business brokerage, had just witnessed a post-pandemic hangover from cheap money and booming ecommerce. A normal acquisition market had returned. We connecte...

#SeoTips I asked Victor Karpenko, the founder of Ukraine-based SeoProfy, to describe the common organic search mistakes of ecommerce merchants. Most are technical, he told me, adding, “You can answer 99% of any SEO question by looking at competi...

#SeoTips All of us here mourn the death last month of Hamlet Batista, our friend and contributor. Hamlet first appeared in Practical Ecommerce in an interview. A mutual acquaintance, an SEO practitioner, had suggested that we publish his views. ...

#SeoTips Contributor Marcia Kaplan emailed me in early February 2020. She described a sickness in China that appeared to be impacting global trade. She called it a virus and suggested that we address it. “Coronavirus Disrupting the Global Econom...