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    What Are The Best Practices To Reduce Cart Abandonment Rates On An Ecommerce Store?

    Prime example of what to NEVER do. If they want to leave and they are sure, they sure as hell will never come back. Pester your potential customers and you will just be seen as that site which annoyed them, they won't care if you are cheaper anymore.
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    What Are The Best Practices To Reduce Cart Abandonment Rates On An Ecommerce Store?

    Where are your customers coming from? What advertising are you doing? Are you making it clear what your shipping costs are before people get half way through the checkout - lots of people leave when the price jumps up because of shipping. If you sell £5 items and people only find out in the...
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    Looking for an ecommerce web designer in Cumbria

    If you are happy to work with an e-commerce specialist agency in Bristol, send me a message. It is just me and a designer, I've been in the e-comm industry for over 10 years and worked with the likes of Matalan, DHL, Warehouse, JJB Sports, WH Smiths, National Trust, LV, Axa in my past before...
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    Websites that don't work without third-party cookies

    Any iframes on a page may not work, for the likes of Job sites, sometimes they iframe from an ATS system. More interested in what issue you have with 3rd party cookies? I'm not a fan of all the tracking people do, but it doesn't really effect me.
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    When I should register for VAT in UK

    If your income is over 70,000 in the UK (or there abouts) I'm sure its a legal requirement to be VAT registered.
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    Buy new domain or use existing (updating website)

    "If you found any pages which are not useful to you then remove it first and deindex it from google" - do not deindex them from google by request. You will lose the SEO impact of anywhere linking to the old domain in Googles eyes. I would use the old domain, and ignore your new one if the only...
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    Finding a payment processor - Why is it so hard?

    SSL Certificates are free if you have the ability to get them. We get all ours for free, so give them out for free on every site we host. LetsEncrypt.
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    Finding a payment processor - Why is it so hard?

    Another vote for Stripe. I've worked in e-commerce for a decade, and seen a lot of processors come and go. The key players we all know like WorldPay, SagePay, Paypal etc. all work fine. But I have never had as good and simple experience as I have with Stripe. Getting a SagePay account approved...
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    Freelance websites

    As a web design agency, if we hit a quiet period, we find freelancer.com is ok. You just need to filter out the crap. For example, people in the middle-east/asia and even eastern europe work for around £10-15/hr on there, if not less. If you won't work for less than say £400 for a basic project...
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    Do I require an accountant for a startup?

    I would just like to say, filing your accounts for a micro-entity is easy IF YOU ARE A SIMPLE BUSINESS. Do not get put off my accountants talking about XFBML and all manner of other terms. If you are a Limited business, under 10 employees and under £500,000 income (at time of writing) you can...
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    Choosing an ecommerce solution

    If anyone is interested in a talk about CS-Cart, let me know. We work closely with the team behind it on a regular basis.
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    WARNING: Russian clones of UKBF - negative SEO impact

    I have about 450 now. I have not checked every link individually to be 100% sure they are all clones, hence not updating it here. But if anyone wants my list, let me know.
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    Site been hit by the Spam Hackers! Grrr...

    Just so you know, I submitted the disavow and google has cleared up some of those sites now (obviously starting to understand it is a load of spam now) and my ranking has gone from 94 to 41 over the weekend. Hopefully back to the 20's in a few days as I am sure more sites cropped up over the...
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    Site been hit by the Spam Hackers! Grrr...

    Did that to copy the links to disavow, shows just 94 with no message of any extras. Can you even see page 30 of your results for search? It found a few more WMT didn't show me, but also did not 150 of the ones I already had in my list. Removed from Google maybe, or hidden due to spam/malware I guess
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    Site been hit by the Spam Hackers! Grrr...

    Nope, as soon as I go to page 2 the total results drops to 94. On page 10 it shows 4 results, and nothing about extra results hidden. It does tell me it is showing 60 and I can click a link to show all 94 though.
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