Getting Creative With “The Measure”
I spend an unhealthy amount of time on the typography in my designs, and if you’ve read…
The Rise of Global Tariffs, Explained
A new book from a noted economist seeks to explain the rise of global tariffs and trade…
Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries
Read you a story? What fun would that be? I’ve got a better idea: let’s tell a…
Tools to Track GenAI Citations, Sources
Generative AI platforms increasingly conduct live web searches to respond to users’ prompts. The platforms don’t reveal…
80% online sellers think return rates will not improve
Return rates of online orders are an issue for many sellers. In the online fashion sector in…
Ecommerce in many European regions still in its infancy
The adoption of ecommerce varies widely across European regions: from 21.7 percent in Yugoiztochen, in the southeast…
How U.S. Merchants Fail E.U. Consumers
U.S. merchants eyeing European expansion see 450 million consumers unified under common trade regulations. The reality is…
Will Google’s AI Mode Dominate ChatGPT?
Jeff Oxford is my go-to interview for ecommerce SEO. The founder of Oregon-based 180 Marketing, an agency,…
Portuguese online shopping reaches €11 billion in 2025
Portuguese consumers have now spent around 11 billion euros on online shopping so far in 2025. This…
Türkiye: ‘opportunities from customs reform’
Earlier this month, the European Union decided to remove the customs exemption, that was applicable for goods…
Temu expands European delivery network
Temu has recently entered into a large number of partnerships with logistics service providers for the delivery…
New Ecommerce Tools: November 26, 2025
Every week we publish a handpicked list of new products and services for ecommerce merchants. This installment…
Where Investors See Ecommerce Heading
Crunchbase reported this month that ecommerce start-up funding was about to hit a five-year low as investors…
78% of Nordic shoppers buy from abroad
In the second quarter of this year, 78 percent of Nordic consumers placed an online order at…
Shoppers Favor Product Content Over Brand Loyalty
More than four out of five consumers agree that high-value content — detailed descriptions, multiple images and…
Allegro has 4.2 million international customers
Allegro, Poland’s largest ecommerce company, is increasingly serving customers outside of its home market. Last quarter, 4.2…
On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values
Sometimes I want to set the value of a CSS property to that of a different property,…
How Google’s Web Guide Helps SEO
Google’s Web Guide is an experiment launched in July 2025 that uses AI to organize a user’s…
CB Customs Broker: ‘sellers need to invest in structured data’
Cross-border ecommerce in Europe is expected to increase with an average annual rate of 29 percent, up…
Solar Power Developer on Fueling the Grid
Chris Elrod is a renewable power entrepreneur. His company, Treaty Oak Clean Energy, builds massive solar projects…
Why B2B checkout is not one size fits all
This post was written in collaboration with Fortis, an embedded payments platform that integrates directly with WooCommerce…
Polestar Additionals grows B2C sales 232% with WooCommerce
Polestar is an electric car brand with an emphasis on performance and a sustainable future. Combining innovative…
‘Amazon now second-largest online retailer in Belgium’
Only three years after launching a dedicated online store for Belgium, Amazon has grown into the country’s…
Should We Even Have :closed?
For the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot of entries on pseudo-selectors in CSS, like ::picker() or ::checkmark….