What AI Search Tells Customers About Your Brand
When a customer asks an AI tool to recommend a company, a brand can lose business in…
5 Content Marketing Ideas for December 2026
In December 2026 ecommerce content marketers can celebrate 50 years of “Rocky,” revisit Agatha Christie’s mysterious disappearance,…
HTML vs. XML Sitemaps for Ecommerce
From the web’s earliest days, developers included a summary of links to a site’s key sections, such…
AI Shopping Metrics Considered
AI-assisted shopping journeys on an ecommerce site may force merchants to reconsider what to measure, and when….
New Ecommerce Tools: October 21, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for merchants includes AI-powered marketing, agentic commerce, return platforms, multichannel distribution,…
Shopify, Vercel Arm Stores for AI Agents
Shopify and Vercel are collaborating to build ecommerce shops for humans and AI alike. Sharing a stage…
Beware of AI Content for SEO
Creating content at scale with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others is increasingly dubious for search engine optimization….
AI Platforms Attract a Growing Ecosystem
Artificial intelligence models are becoming platforms, attracting an ecosystem of applications, connectors, marketplaces, and payment systems that…
Retail Media’s Opportunity Cost
A recent search for “cordless drill” on Walmart illustrated a quiet struggle playing out on many enterprise…
What’s new for merchants in WooCommerce 11.2
WooCommerce 11.2 is here with some exciting new updates. Here’s everything you need to know about the…
AI Recommendations Put Brand Loyalty to the Test: Adobe
Artificial intelligence can break or make customer loyalty to a brand, according to data published Monday by…
New Ecommerce Tools: October 7, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for merchants includes updates on website builders, no-box returns, AI-powered ad…
Guardrails for Google Ads AI
I often address Google Ads AI capabilities. AI can better target new and existing audiences and, when…
Add Social Profiles to Search Console
The decrease in organic search traffic is forcing businesses to find new marketing channels. Social media has…
TinyHealth.com Sells Gut Tests by Mail
Cheryl Sew Hoy says her company deals with poop. The Austin, Texas-based serial entrepreneur launched Tiny Health…
New Ecommerce Tools: September 30, 2026
This week’s curated list of new services for merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, product review pages,…
ROAS’s First Source of Truth
Return on advertising spend is a useful performance metric, but only with accurate attribution. ROAS connects advertising…
Shopify Opens to Meta Muse; Amazon Balks
Shopify is welcoming Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent. Amazon is trying to keep it out. Meta…
Google, OpenAI, ChatGPT Dominate AI-Referred Web Traffic
AI tools are sending billions of visits to websites, but more than half of that traffic is…
Google Targets Low Effort, not AI
Google’s problem with AI-generated content is less the process than the lack of effort. The search giant’s…
Google removes product carousels in Europe
Product carousels have almost entirely disappeared from Google’s shopping-related search results in the European Economic Area (EEA)….
Retail Media’s Margin Opportunity
Retail media may provide ecommerce retailers with high-margin revenue from an audience they have paid to attract….
New Ecommerce Tools: September 16, 2026
This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on international shipping, cross-border payments,…
Amazon catches up with Boozt in Denmark
Fifteen percent of active Danish online shoppers bought something from Amazon in the past six months. This…