E-Commerce for All

Author: Melanie

  • 2019 Ecommerce Oddities

    I haven’t written a post in a while, I apologize. I have been very busy working hard =) I am genuinely disturbed by some ecommerce trends… So I’m going to rant a bit and hopefully help others avoid problems and be successful. First up on my soapbox is “social proof”. I am so bothered by…

  • Credit Card Testing

    Credit Card Testing

    It’s scary out there and I know we can’t catch them all…. But let’s be a pain in the hacker’s a$$ this holiday season!

  • Google Chrome Logging Customers Out

    Zen Cart isn’t the only platform having these issues with Chrome. The issue isn’t with your Zen Cart, but rather with Chrome. Here is what happens when Chrome users, especially mobile users, are trying to shop on your Zen Cart but keep getting logged out. Symptom: User adds something to cart, tries to login, checkout…

  • Mobile-First Indexing

    So logging in to webmaster tools following an email from Google about Mobile-First Indexing on one of our sites, we found the following documentation. Mobile-first indexing enabled for https://mysite.com/ May 17, 2018 To owner of https://mysite.com/, This means that you may see more traffic in your logs from Googlebot Smartphone. You may also see that…

  • Google Dictates Blanket SSL for All

    The correct terminology is “Connection not encrypted”, in fact Google saying someone’s website is not secure with one side of their face and then not with the other is ridiculous for such a huge, influential company. I think website owners should sue the browser companies for slander!