Stephan Miller

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have never been one to hold a job for long. I don’t have a degree. About two years was my limit. It has not been the pay as much as the boredom. Once I could do the job [...]

I rank pretty high for specific terms when it comes to ecommerce, even though I haven’t written a post in a while. I have learned a lot through running an ecommerce site. In fact, it has helped with my blogging and internet marketing more than you can imagine and vice versa.
I am surprised at how [...]

Here I am opening my big mouth again waiting for the real photographers to come along and prove me wrong. But when you are trying to get products online quickly, there is really no time to wait around for a photographer or Photoshop expert to do everything perfectly.
I have taken over 1000 pictures over the [...]

Yesterday I said it is much more worthwhile to optimize your web site for the key phrases that show up in your statistics software. Today we will go over some ways to make this happen. All cms or ecommerce software is a little bit different, so knowing how your software works helps a lot in [...]

SEO this and SEO that. SEO’s have a bad name, just like lawyers. But when you’re the one that needs one, all the lawyer jokes get dropped and you hire the best. And when you run a website, no matter why you run it, you want hits, so you can either hold onto your opinion [...]

I kind of fell into the job at AllAboutDoors.com. It happens to be one of those niches that if you do any kind of SEO or SEM, you are kicking everyone’s ass. We aren’t selling ipods, ringtones, or hosting. People in the industry or in closely related industries are just starting to sell online or [...]

The title is sort of a joke. When you have about the only good pictures of an item on the internet, you are bound to be the target of people who want to use your image on their site. But most of them go about it the wrong way. They use a direct reference to [...]

This is an issue with osCommerce, one that I have run into two or three times. It is possible for two customers to somehow get the same session id and whichever customer checks out last will be greeted with the other customer’s details at the checkout. This is a big security issue, but not one [...]

I can take a long time to manually enter the data for thousands of products into a site like OsCommerce. We have over 5000 products listed online. Close to 2000 manually entered. You could save a lot of time just calling up the vendor.
Any modern business keeps their product line in a database. And just [...]

Up to the point that I became the in-house SEO and developer for http://www.allaboutdoors.com, I had never really dealt with a large scale ecommerce site. I had built large sites in the past. In fact, most of the sites I have created have all been database driven, with very little unique content. With those sites, [...]