iknowthe.net | Internet and Ecommerce Consultant

I’ve finally taken the plunge and moved from MovableType to WordPress. I’ve been meaning to so this or a while, as WordPress integrates so well with the rest of the web, plus I was using a heavily customised but older version of MovableType and the comment spam if I enabled any kind of commenting was just incredible. Despite all my customising, the move had been seamless, and I’m really pleased with the new system. Adding plugins to do cool things and customise the blog is really easy. Got any cool wordpress plugin tips? Leave me a comment below.  

Techcrunch Where I won an ipod nano yesterday. Thanks guys

I’ve been looking for a decent online backup solution for OS X, and I think I’ve found one in Mozy Online Backup. 2 Gigs of storage is free, and there’s a nice helper OSX app to download. It does also work for PC’s – give it a try. You DO backup offsite, don’t you? Edit: Mozy actually seems a little flaky, at least in its free incarnation – I often foun the client won’t connect. Now using some spare webspace and webdav to emulate .mac instead. Mozy is a nice try though….

Following on from my previous post, I’ve been asked (again) what is an Ecommerce Consultant.

Definition of Ecommerce: Selling stuff online

Definition of Consultant: One who advises another, especially officially or professionally: adviser, counselor, mentor.

Well, I’m a general internet consultant, and much of my advice is general on internet issues, such as hosting, design options, seo and the finer points of server response codes, but I’m also a specialist ecommerce consultant, as many of of my clients sell stuff online, and some of my experience and skillset is very specifically tailored to optimising ecommerce websites, advising on ecommerce site design, add to basket issues, shopping basket usability, ordering functionality, the checkout pathway, and payment options. So that’s an ecommerce consultant. Hope that clears things up for now.

I posted in March 2006 that I was ranked Number 1 in Yahoo, MSN, and Altavista for the search term “Ecommerce Consultant”. My rankings have hovered in the top few on all engines since then, but I thought it was time for an update. I’m still number one in Altavista, Number 1 in Yahoo.co.uk, I’ve slipped to 6/7 in MSN (must look at that), but I’ve made it to number 4 in Google.co.uk. That’s top 6 in ranking in all the major search engines for my main keywords. Anyone need an SEO Expert ?