How to protect your ecommerce product images from hotlinking and theft.

If you spend hours and hours photographing your product images, here are some steps you can take to prevent people from stealing your images or hotlinking to them.

hotlinking and watermarking

Tutorial written by Gabriel Crowe.

The link below will take you to an article entitled "Secrets to getting traffic from Facebook". Given the news last week that facebook had overtaken google for the number of searches performed, it is more pertinent to get a facebook presence working for your business.

Secrets to getting traffic from Facebook

If you want to use Facebook to promote your business, you might like to additionally customise your pages to mirror your own branding rather than facebooks.

Here is a useful walk through on how to achieve it

Customise Facebook Landing Pages

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Here is an interesting blog about short URLs - how to use them, how to avoid their pitfalls for SEO purposes.

Short URLs

There has always been alot of debate about getting trustmarks for your e-commerce website, some of these trustmarks cost the website owner a few pounds too. Before committing to spending on such logos and schemes, take time to read this interesting article on good checkout design instead.

This is especially interesting timing, in light of the release of Actinic V10 beta. One of the new features promised in V10 is a re-write of the checkout pages.