How to Add a Pinterest “Pin it” button to Miva Merchant product pages

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Blog, eCommerce, Shopping carts, Social media | 19 comments If you’ve not heard of Pinterest yet, you soon will. Pinterest is an online pin-board which lets user pin, organize and share the stuff they love. It’s growth has been amazing. Here’s a chart from Hitwise which shows it’s current growth rate. Pinterest is mainly used by women. Since my eCommerce site has an audience that is mainly women, I thought it was time to add the...
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How to add Schema.org microdata to a Miva Merchant product page

Posted by on Sep 13, 2011 in Design, eCommerce, Search, SEO, Shopping carts | 2 comments Schema.org microdata & rich snippets… two topics that keep coming up in news feeds I subscribe to.  If you’re unfamiliar with microdata then you can read more about it at Google or Schema.org. As described by Google: “.. a new initiative from Google, Bing and Yahoo! to create and support a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. Schema.org aims to be...
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How to add Facebook Like and Send buttons to Miva Merchant product pages

Posted by on Jun 13, 2011 in eCommerce, Shopping carts, Social media | 0 comments Facebook Like and Send buttons… they’re everywhere! They are an extremely powerful feature from Facebook. For eCommerce sites they’re a must have. When you’ve worked hard to get traffic to your site and you have eyes on your products or services, giving your visitors the ability to click a Like or Send button is an opportunity you can’t pass up. Each time someone...
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