Viewing entries tagged with 'magento'
by on 12 Apr
A lot of the work we do here at GPMD is in the area of ecommerce and, like many other agencies, our framework of choice is Magento. As I’m sure you’re aware, it’s becoming increasingly important... read more
by on 19 Mar
Magento is a hugely popular, open source ecommerce platform that powers well over 100,000 transactional websites across the world. A number of our SEO clients have Magento websites, which has required... read more
by on 09 Feb
A few days ago one of our clients, Andrew Fraser of Winterson Pearls, informed us that he was getting extremely high bounce rates on one specific browser (Safari). He'd actually ended up doing most o... read more
by on 26 Jan
I was recently asked to research getting Magento into the cloud and making it scalable for one of our clients. This decision came about as we believe performance is a large factor in conversion, coupl... read more
by on 27 Oct
Roy, CEO and Co-Founder of Magento, kicked off his talk by answering the question 'Why are we (Magento) here in the UK', the answer was because the UK is Europe's leading e-commerce market and was val... read more
by on 27 Oct
There has been a lot of talk about x.commerce recently, but I was yet to get a clear understanding of eBay's latest initiative, this talk was a great introduction and (if I understood the aim correct... read more
by on 27 Oct
The panel for this part of the event consisted of: Alex Barbier from Watco, Barry Thorn from Crimsonwing, Vic Watson from MotherCare and Ian Wilding from Radical Company This talk was really good and ... read more
by on 27 Oct
Nigel Beighton, from Rackspace, gave a talk on how merchants can use cloud hosting to deal with peaks in demand. Nigel outlined a strategy he called bursting, where merchants run their website on dedi... read more
by on 27 Oct
Neil Hamilton, form Predictive Intent, gave a great talk about how to use product recommendations and merchandising to improve conversion rates. Neil started by explaining what e-commerce personalisat... read more
by on 27 Oct
Roger Willcocks, from ScreenPages, gave a fast paced talk that was full of tips on how to improve traffic and conversion. Roger's talk was so fast paced that I found it hard to keep up with my notes. ... read more
