They are extremely happy to announce the availability of Magento version 1.3.0 for download and upgrade. This version includes numerous issue resolutions for Magento version 1.2.x and new features such as:

Added support for customer file upload and date/time/datetime custom options
Described all methods in WSDL for SOAP web-services to improve compatibility with .NET, Java and other languages
Frontend Flat Catalog and improved performance. From early test and benchmarks they see up to 40% performance improvement when comparing to Magento 1.2.x both in page loads and memory usage. They will publish formal results …

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.
Google Analytic can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
Integrated with AdWords, users can review online campaigns by tracking landing page quality and conversions (goals). Goals might include sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular file. These can also be monetized. By using Google Analytic, marketers can determine which ads are performing, …

There was a simple question:
I’ve got an ecommerce store. I’m trying to figure out if I should spend time getting Google Products / Base / froogle (whatever it’s called) set up for all my products. Sounds like a lot of work and a huge question mark if it will bring in sales.
Does anyone have experience, good or bad? Could save me a lot of time, or make me a lot of money!
And the answer was only the one:
It’s free, ultra targeted traffic. It really doesn’t get much better than that …

How to know what Google Images keywords people are searching for in Analytics?
If the people came using regular search engine, you will see it in Traffic Sources -> Search Engines or Traffic Sources -> Keywords. But if he came from Google image search, he will not be tracked. He will be in Traffic Sources -> Referring Sites as images.google.com. Google analytics has a feature to add custom search engine, so now we will add it.

Magento is quite new software (it’s only up to version 1.2.1.2 March 3, 2009) but is already shaping up to be one of the best e-commerce carts out there. Magento features clean urls and SEO from the start. Everything is designed in a clean and simple way. The code it outputs is semantic, which is very rare for e-commerce carts, even commercial ones.
Magento has lots of features and everything is for free. Here is the most important features which you can’t get in lots of others carts.
Management:
You can control multiple …