The launch of Magento 2 late last year was a big step in the Magento community. Migrating, not upgrading Historically Magento released updates every year or so, and one would upgrade from Magento 1.7 to 1.8, or to 1.9, and it wasn’t a huge jump each time. Magento 2, however,…
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What are DMARC records and how can they help get your emails delivered?
This post looks at DMARC records, what they are, and how they can help in ensuring that emails to your customers don’t end up in their spam bins.
Improve search results in Magento – three quick and easy tips
Magento’s Achilles heel has always been its search functionality. Whether it’s returning too many of the wrong results, or not enough of the right results, or – as we experienced in one interesting instance – the same results no matter what search term was inputted, it’s always been a weak…
The importance of a good robots.txt file for a Magento store
Having covered why sitemaps are important, we now turn our attention to the importance of a good robots.txt file for a Magento store. (if you haven’t read it already, both of these arose from our post containing a ten-point health check for your online store). What is a robots.txt file?…
The importance of a sitemap for a Magento store
In amongst the recommendations for a health check of your Magento site contained in our recent post on the subject, checking your sitemap snuck in at number 4. This post expands on the questions of “what is a sitemap” and “why is it important to have a sitemap for a…
Ten quick health checks for your online store
So, January, may be nearly over, and Dry January is probably a thing of the past. If you’re in a healthy mood, though, why not give your online store a bit of a health check to get it ready for the new year. Here are our eight top tips for…
Things to think about when starting an online business (part 2)
The second in our series on important things to bear in mind when starting an online business continues where we left off in part one. Choose your platform wisely There is a plethora of platforms to choose from, all with their accompanying pros and cons. Open-source, proprietary, self-hosted, hosted, subscription-based,…