Link Building Strategies for New Ecommerce Stores

So, you just opened an ecommerce store?

That's fantastic!

I'm guessing you might be a little overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. How do you spread the word? How do you increase your site's SEO (search engine optimization)? There are a lot of questions to ask and oftentimes not enough answers to go around. One helpful thing that would be helpful for you as a new ecommerce store owner is link building. What's link building? Well, it's simple. At the …

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3 Ways to Increase the Loading Speed of Your Ecommerce Site

It's happened to all of us. You've pulled up a page and it's loading...loading...still loading. And what happens next? You probably get a notification about a script error that's causing the page to run too slow, causing you to give up and exit the page. Sure, you've been on the receiving end of this but do you, as an ecommerce store owner, want to be on the sending end of it?

The easy, and obvious, answer is no.

We all …

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Send Custom Rule-Based Notifications From Your Shopify Store to Slack With EZ Notify

For a long time our app EZ Notify has provided a very easy and simple way to integrate your Shopify store with your Slack workspace. Getting set-up takes seconds: click a button to authorize our app in Slack and decide which Order Events to send to your chosen Slack channel.

The same is still true today but we've recently pushed a paid "Professional" version of the app to allow for more customization and flexibility based on feedback from our users. …

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5 Ways to Reduce Fraudulent Orders

Fraud stinks. It's irritating and unfortunate for all parties involved, unless, of course, you're the person committing the fraud. For those of us that tread on the right side of the tracks, though, fraud is heartbreaking. Investigations have to occur, transactions get disputed, and, worst of all, charge-backs happen. Fraudulent orders can be a double whammy to ecommerce store owners. There are times where you lose your merchandise and the money in such scenarios. It doesn't take a rocket scientist …

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Export "Customs Information" Data From Your Shopify Store With EZ Exporter

You may have noticed recently that when you go to the Shopify Admin's product variant detail page, you can now enter the product's "Country of Origin" and "Harmonized System Code" if it's a physical product.

Shopify pushed this update a few weeks ago and we've added these fields in EZ Exporter as well so you can now include them in your custom CSV exports.

Previously, the HS Tariff Code was only accessible via the metafields under the key "harmonized_system_code." And …

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