How to prepare your inventory for peak season
When your most popular product sells out on Black Friday, but your store keeps taking orders, that’s…
Online retail sales surge in the United Kingdom
Online retail sales are rising sharply in the United Kingdom. According to the country’s Office for National…
Optimizing Crawl Budgets: What’s New
Google’s newly updated “Crawling infrastructure” documentation includes “Optimize your crawl budget,” a section with pointers on how…
WooCommerce is the foundation of our entire ecosystem
We just kicked off a large effort, and I want to post about it here because you’re…
The Top Cause of Wasted Ad Spend
Brett Fish sees a lot of wasted ad spend. His company, TagHero, tracks clients’ advertising performance on…
Notino reaches 1.76 billion euros in revenue
Notino, which describes itself as the market leader in European ecommerce for beauty and health products, increased…
‘Bol and Amazon use misleading discounts’
The Dutch Consumer Association has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Amazon and Duch online marketplace Bol. The…
Publishers Can Turn to Ecommerce
Publishers and media companies facing AI-fueled disruptions to traffic and revenue may find new revenue opportunities in…
Allegro Group GMV increases 14%
Polish marketplace Allegro has recently released its preliminary second-quarter results. The Group’s gross merchandise value (GMV) grew…
How the ONDC Reshapes India Ecommerce
I’ve detailed the ecommerce opportunity in India. The country’s population is now the world’s largest, yet its…
Zalando invests in AI robotics
Online fashion platform Zalando has invested in German robotics company Sereact. It develops AI-powered robotics solutions. The…
writing-mode
The writing-mode CSS property sets whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically, and the…
German ecommerce increases 4.3% in first half 2026
Online turnover in Germany has increased 4.3 percent in the first half of the year, compared to…
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…
Rakuten France is closing
Online marketplace Rakuten France has announced that it closing at the end of the year. The platform…
A One-Two Punch Drives Ecommerce Growth
Sean Stone advises ecommerce merchants to adopt a one-two punch for growth. Punch one is developing a…
AI Makes Refund Evidence Easier to Fake
Fraudsters can now use generative AI to create fake photographs of product damage, false shipping records, and…
pointer-events
The pointer-events property controls whether an element can become the target of pointer events like clicks, hover…
An AI’s answer is only as up-to-date as the documentation it uses
Earlier this year, a merchant taking in-person payments asked our AI support assistant how to quickly accept…
What’s !important #15: Boundary-aware CSS, Time-based CSS, Full-bleed CSS, and More
Similar to last time, What’s !important #15 is pretty stacked — read all about boundary-aware CSS, making…
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…
European retail media increased 16.7% in 2025
The European spending on digital advertisements has increased 10.5 percent last year, compared to 2024. The total…