“Ask an Expert” is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online merchants. For this installment, we address a question about ranking on search engines for major keywords. It comes from Jeramie Westbay, owner operator for Crazy Ed’s Roadkill, an online store that sells beef jerky. For the answer, we turn to Andrew Hazen, the founder and CEO of Prime Visibility, a Long Island,... 

Keyword research is one of the pillars of both natural and paid search campaigns. By following the keyword choices used by consumers in the search engines, websites can focus on those terms to capture traffic. This tenet of online marketing and search engine optimization is fairly well established, but the tools used in keyword research are ever changing. Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery Are Helpful There have been,... 

Acer may be the first manufacturer out of the gate with a Google Chrome OS netbook in the second half of next year, according to the latest Internet rumors. JT Wang, the computer manufacturer’s chairman recently told DigiTimes that he was confident his company would be “the first vendor to launch [a] Chrome-based netbook” by next year. Acer’s interest in bringing a Chrome-based network to market...