Why Meta Descriptions Still Matter
Google once exclusively used meta descriptions for organic search snippets. Optimizing the descriptions aimed to entice searchers…
Deep Product Data Is the New SEO in the Age of AI Discovery
Small and midsize e-commerce brands face growing challenges as AI-driven discovery, social commerce, and conversational search change…
pointer-events
The pointer-events property controls whether an element can become the target of pointer events like clicks, hover…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 15, 2026
This week’s installment of new services for merchants includes updates on product videos, shipping, recommerce, social marketing,…
Meet your customers where they’re already deciding with Reddit Ads for WooCommerce
When a shopper goes online and researches “the best noise-canceling headphones under $200,” they’re often forgoing sponsored…
Why Google’s Universal Cart Means Brands Must Sell to AI, Not Humans
Google made one of its biggest moves yet in agentic commerce in May when it introduced Universal…
AI Marketing Looks Familiar
AI’s emergence has created ecommerce marketing opportunities, yet the fundamental tactics remain. Consider four traditional promotion channels:…
Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!
So, we recently got the new shape() function (now Baseline!) as well as the corner-shape property. What…
Poor Ad Recall Threatens Brand Discovery, Visibility in AI Era
Consumers quickly forget advertising, making it harder for brands to win both human attention and AI-powered discovery,…
AI Visibility Scores Are Useless
AI visibility-tracking tools such as Profound and Peec AI monitor specific prompts and report a business’s visibility…
AI Can Grow SMB Revenue — If It Moves Beyond the Back Office
Misconceptions about artificial intelligence (AI) are preventing small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from realizing AI’s full revenue…
Hostinger Reframes Site-Free Ecommerce
Lithuania-based hosting firm Hostinger has launched an ecommerce tool that can turn any product photo into a…
Drupal 11.4.0 is now available
The fourth feature release of Drupal 11 is another performance breakthrough. Using only a third of the…
How AI Agents Are Rewiring Market Power and Brand Visibility
Across retail, payments, and big tech, AI-enabled checkout, automated product comparison, and autonomous purchasing tools are becoming…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 1, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(), field sizing, and More
I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important #14, I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked…
How to make your store readable to AI shopping agents
Your online store should make it simple for customers to find and buy the products they want….
AI Forces Affiliates to Innovate or Die
Commerce publishers are the affiliate marketers behind product reviews, buying guides, comparison articles, deal pages, and niche…
translateX()
The CSS translateX() function shifts an element horizontally by the specified amount. Specifically, it displaces an element to the…
New Ecommerce Tools: June 24, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, generative engine optimization,…
Platform-Switching Tax: The Hidden Cost Every Multi-Platform Seller Pays
You know the drill. You open Shopify in the morning. Switch to Amazon at lunch. Check Instagram’s…
Impulse Buying Taking Backseat to Deliberate Shopping: Report
Shoppers are showing less impulse and greater deliberation when making purchasing decisions these days, according to a…
Snapchat Ads for WooCommerce: Reach the shoppers who ask their friends before buying
Let me tell you about the moment I realized how Snapchat ads work. I watched a shopper…
Using Scroll-Driven Animations for Opposing Scroll Directions
Sometimes designers have silly ideas that eventually grow on you. That happened to me with this concept…