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If you run a business online selling products, it is imperative that you have an eCommerce software solution (shopping cart software) at your website to ensure your buyers have a smooth shopping experience ensuring all transactions are processed seamlessly.

As with any line of business, it is imperative for your “online shop” to stand out from the rest in a professional way.

With so many run of the mill eCommerce packages readily available on the web today, finding the most professional solution can oftentimes be difficult. Especially if you are on a relatively tight budget. This is where Boss Cart comes into play.

The Boss Cart software is more than just your typical average shopping cart software. You can design your own shop and layout through a visual WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, ensuring that your visual design will not be similar to any other website. Continued

If you’ve owned a website for a while, you’ve probably heard the phrase “Alexa Rank”.

Although you wouldn’t guess it from the name, the Alexa ranking system is one that ranks every website on the Internet in order of traffic.

Each day, every website is ranked – the website with the most traffic is ranked first, the website with the second most traffic is ranked second, etc.

Unlike the Google PageRank system, you actually want your Alexa score to be lower, rather than higher.

A website’s Alexa rank is based off of traffic. However, it’s not just pure hits that boost your score, otherwise it would be very easy to game the system by refreshing your browser a few hundred times each day. Continued

Google the search engine discussed on forums by members and individuals alike.

Sounding on the lips with tips and tricks.

Some beginners and newbie’s pull out the dirty tricks, hide it, slide it, white font it and ride it. Skip it!

When is the next pagerank update I hear it sound, did it happen, we’re in progress, my pagerank went down boo hoo yoo with Google ranking, skanking, sinking and linking. Continued

All websites on the internet are assigned a ranking by Google - this ranking is known as the “PageRank”.

There are a lot of mysteries behind the Google ranking system, partially because the algorithm that Google uses to formulate the rankings is top secret.

The ranking system is on a scale of zero to ten - zero being the worst and ten being the best.

The scale is believed to be on a logarithmic scale. This means that each respective level of ranking is supposedly ten times harder to achieve than the rank that comes before it. Continued