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Ecommerce payments and mobile payments trends in 2020

Ron Peled — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:55:50 +0000

Your ecommerce payment choice might not seem important but in fact it is increasingly more so. Customers these days can go almost anywhere to find what they are looking for and are willing to pay extra for convenience. In this article we'll explore a bit of recent ecommerce payment statistics and what it means for any online retailer.

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14 Killer Magento 2 SEO Tips to Get Higher Rankings

Ron Peled — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:41:10 +0000

SEO is a key channel for any ecommerce site. Magento 2 is a powerful and flexible system which comes with many SEO features out of the box. However it is key to address technical and user experience details in order to gain higher rankings with search engines.

This list of ecommerce tips is based on the current state of SEO (as of 2017) and targets Magento 2 websites in particular. While today's web landscape is more complex than ever before with personalized search results and local optimization, one still needs to optimize your site for SEO. We hope you find these ecommerce SEO tips for Magento 2 worth it.

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Zero to $1,000,000 in 6 Months on Magento 2

Ron Peled — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:57:39 +0000

Since mid-2016 we have been engaged with a really fun project. We modernized an old eCommerce site and migrated to Magento 2. We did our homework and it showed. The site was launched about 6 months ago and this site just closed a cool $1,000,000 in sales!

Truth is the launch of the site wasn't without any hiccups but we made it happen. In this post I'll share what we learned, what we did well, and what still remains to be done.

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How to Increase Your Conversion Rate by 50%

Ron Peled — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 04:39:12 +0000

We recently did some work on a large eCommerce website and within a week we were able to see an improvement of 50% in their overall conversion rate. No, this is not another story of...

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10 Tips to Increase Customer Loyalty & Boost Repeat Purchases

Ron Peled — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:35:29 +0000

Last week we examined the 3 most important ecommerce metrics for your success. The first metric was repeat purchases. Customer loyalty is a key indicator of your company growth. The higher the percentage of orders...

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The 3 Most Important Metrics for eCommerce Success

Ron Peled — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:05:08 +0000

Like many eCommerce store owners, you probably poured hours into reviewing and tracking the endless Google Analytics reports. Very few metrics will actually define your business, these are the ones that matter for eCommerce businesses: repeat...

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Continuous Deployment with Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS S3, and CloudFront for Static Sites

Ron Peled — Tue, 23 May 2017 13:35:19 +0000

Step by step tutorial: continuous deployment with Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS S3, and CloudFront for Static Sites by Activo - the eCommerce & Magento 2 Pros

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Magento on Amazon Linux EC2: Automated Script (January 2017)

Ron Peled — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:07:02 +0000

Through the past 12 months, all of our Magento deployments go on AWS EC2. Their infrastructure, prices, and their ability to auto scale properly make it very attractive for companies to host on AWS. We'll eventually share our terraform scripts for deploying Magento 1 or Magento 2 on AWS, however today we'll share the automated script we use to setup Amazon Linux with the right packages in order to run Magento successfully.

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How to Secure Magento 1 or 2 eCommerce Site in 2017?

Ron Peled — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:06:36 +0000

If you are running an eCommerce site, you must read this now: very soon in February 2017 any non secure page will produce a nasty warning for users! The warning will say Your connection to this...

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How to setup a large Magento Mysql database locally with Docker

Ron Peled — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:16:03 +0000

Yeah, it’s been a while I know. Recently I needed to export and import the database of a fairly large Magento website. The database dump file(s) were around 15GB in size. Yeah the database isn’t...

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3 Trivial eCommerce Shipping Mistakes and Ways to Avoid Them

Ron Peled — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:03:45 +0000

If you have been running an eCommerce site for a while you probably know that shipping can make or break a business. It will dictate your online sales growth rate. Between your local competition, vertical...

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Add Magento Admin User Using MySQL Script

Ron Peled — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:58:23 +0000

This script quickly adds a Magento Admin user directly into the database. It is possible to run this script from the command line or by copying and pasting into phpMyAdmin. Just make sure to edit...

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12 No-Brainer Security Tips for Running a Secure Magento Server

Ron Peled — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:00:07 +0000

Recently we have been getting a flood of calls from distressed Magento store owners with compromised servers. As a result we compiled a comprehensive list of security tips on running a secure Magento environment. Some tips are basic but still it is worth mentioning it here sine I have seen so many cases were the basics are not covered properly. Like any other eCommerce application residing on a web server, Magento needs to be secured and one will be surprised how often these basics mistakes are done on live production servers.

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PHP 5.4 and APC causing Segmentation fault with Magento

Ron Peled — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:54:55 +0000

At the moment, December 2013, there seems to be a stability issue with PHP latest versions and APC (Alternative PHP Caching) module under Magento. Once you run latest PHP 5.4 with latest APC module and let Magento run or...

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Ecommerce Conversion Rate of Over 5% on Cyber Monday

Ron Peled — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:22:13 +0000

Yes, it is the holiday shopping season and ecommerce is just booming. If you have done everything right in your online store, you should be seeing a spike in your eCommerce conversion rates. Here is a nice graph showing ecommerce conversion rates spike to over 5% on Cyber Monday for one of our successful Magento Customers.

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Shrinking Database Size for Magento

Ron Peled — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:14:23 +0000

If you ever managed a medium to large Magento shop you very well know that its database size can grow quite a bit. In particular if the site has sizable catalog, large amount of traffic,...

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Using mod_geoip to Improve Server Security and Fight Hackers

Ron Peled — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:00:29 +0000

One of our eCommerce client’s recently had an unpleasant experience with hackers. The hacker was trying to plant some code that will send customer’s Credit Card information to a remote server in Russia. Luckily we...

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Great Results with Advanced Search 2 for Magento

Ron Peled — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:22:21 +0000

Recently we released our latest Advanced Search 2 Magento Extension and we already have some great analytics to share with you from one of our favorite websites. Overall the preliminary results show some real gains in how users use the search on a Magento site and we can only conclude they are happier as a result.

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New and Improved Advanced Search Magento Extension

Ron Peled — Fri, 31 May 2013 01:15:49 +0000

The Advanced Search Magento Extension by Activo is a must have improvement over the default magento search results. It provides an advanced search functionality for your entire store product catalog without the necessity to install additional 3rd party systems like Solr or Sphinx. It also offer the sensible autocomplete feature within the search box.

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How to Properly Add an External JS/CSS file to Magento

Ron Peled — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:40:29 +0000

Magento code snippet showing the proper way to add an external Javascript or CSS file links to your Magento theme's layout files without any additional files or extensions and without any direct template files hacks. This method is simple, easy and works every time.

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