"Magento tips & tricks"

Best Magento SEO Extensions 2016

- Magento tips & tricks

magento seo extensions

Search engine optimization is the process of affecting the visibility of e-commerce store in search engine’s unpaid search results. Higher ranking and more frequent appearance in the search results list affects more traffic to the web site. For better SEO optimization of your Magento store you can use SEO Magento extensions. In this post, we gathered the best existing SEO toolkits and modules that improve other ecommerce aspects of your Magento website and at the same time positively affects SEO.

Magento SEO Guide

Magento 2 SEO Guide

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OneStepCheckout Magento Extension Review

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

OneStepCheckout Magento Extension Review; OneStepCheckout Magento Module Overview

Today, we are going to shed light on the most popular one page checkout solution for Magento. Although there are tons of reliable extension designed to simplify the default checkout procedure (you can see all of them here: The Best One Step / Page Checkout Extensions For Magento), the most successful one is OneStepCheckout. Below, you will find our review on this vital for every ecommerce merchant tool. Continue Reading

Magento Compressors Comparison (Fooman & PotatoCommerce)

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Fooman & PotatoCommerce Magento Compressors Comparison

Although we’ve already created lots of post dedicated to Magento performance, since it is hard to overestimate this topic, we are not going to stop. Here at Firebear, our goal is to make the Magento ecosystem better, that’s why we are always trying to dig into something new and interesting. And that’s why you can find lots of reviews and comparisons in our blog. While our main idea is to shine the spotlight on Magento 2, we understand that there is still a plethora of Magento 1 merchants, so here is an important post dedicated to the first version of our favorite ecommerce platform. Below, you will find a comparison of the best Magento compressors: PotatoCommerce JS & CSS Compressor + Image Optimization and Fooman Speedster.

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10 Beautiful Best Selling Magento Themes

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Magento 2 themes; Magento themes

It seems rather common when one gets confused when it comes to picking the right design for his/her website. Furthermore, if you don’t have a sharp eye for design, you can drown in a sea of almost endless options. What criteria should be kept in mind in selecting a well-polished website template? Before you hit the buy button, make sure your choice is not based solely on emotions or esthetic, rather on browser compliance or developer support for instance. Whether you need a website to sell furniture, cosmetics, clothes or anything in between, you can end your search right here. The thing is that these 10 Beautiful Best Selling Magento Themes are a perfect choice to enhance your online business. As a matter of fact, highly skilled designers from TemplateMonster walks the extra mile for your project to deliver the right Magento design for your demands. Continue Reading

CloudBleed – Cloudy With A Rain of Data

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

CloudFlare CloudBleed

Last week, Tavis Ormandy from Google’s Project Zero discovered a huge problem in the security of CloudFlare‘s edge servers. He contacted the company and reported that corrupted web pages were returned by some HTTP requests run through the popular hosting provider. Below, we shed light on the problem as well as provide information on how to prevent Magento form the new bottleneck dubbed CloudBleed. Continue Reading

Magento 1 Business-to-Business (B2B) extensions and solutions

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Magento b2b extension

Companies are shifting from offline to online, and the result of this process influences both relations between businesses and end users as well as between companies. Thus, digital commerce appears in all possible spheres. Of course, B2C ecommerce develops faster than its B2B counterpart, but there are already a lot of ecommerce solutions aimed at digital B2B relations, for example, different marketplaces which work only with companies. And since custom ecommerce adds tons of new opportunities, different B2B ecommerce solutions give rise to dozens new professional ecommerce websites. One of key roles in this process belongs to Magento. In this post, we have gathered the best B2B Magento extensions and solutions developed to improve the default capabilities of the platform.

UPD (17.08.15): Magento B2B Program

UPD (15.03.16): More B2B modules

Best Magento extensions for building Magento based multi vendor marketplace

Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce in 2015

Magento 2 Business-to-Business (B2B) extensions and solutions

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Magento Community Edition 1.9.X Release Notes

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Magento CE 1.9 Release Notes

Magento CE 1.9.3.1 has been released. Along with 1.9.3.0, the new platform version contains lots of various improvements and fixes and below we shed light on them. Note that some major enhancements have been published, so don’t hesitate to update your ecommerce website to the latest version. You can download Magento CE 1.9.3.1 using the following links:

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