Small firms neglect SEO strategies

Over a third of SME’s in the UK neglect their search engine optimisation (SEO) strategy, according to a survey by Fasthosts web firm. Despite the number of firms not submiting their websites to search engines having fallen from 49 percent during 2006 to just 17...

SME retailers embrace online commerce

The proportion of SME retailers in the UK who operate e-commerce websites has grown from 11 percent to 35 percent since 2006, according to a new survey. More than one-third of 277 SME retailers questioned by e-commerce vendor Actinic now have an online store, and of...

Safe selling through the storm

The value of online sales channels is growing, despite the global economic slowdown. Irish payment services processor Realex Payments said that in 2008, the average value of transactions it processed online per day per day was EUR15.3 million, compared to EUR7.9...

Online Shoppers spend almost €1million per hour

According to figures released by Realex Payments, online sales peaked on Monday, December 1st 2008 with over 112,000 transactions valued at €22.6Million processed the company, equating to over €942,000 spent per hour by online shoppers! The online channel appears to...

Over 875 million consumers have shopped online

A recent study by Nielsen has shown that the number of internet shoppers is up 40% in two years, with clothes and shoes being the fastest growers, and most opting to pay with Visa. More than 85 percent of the world’s online population has used the Internet to make a...