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For existing online merchants and those thinking of creating their first ecommerce software powered website alike, Boss Cart has just announced the release of a new template called ‘Futuristing’ apart from the template being extremely well design and and attractive, the icing on the cake for online trader wishing to start a phone shop or any other ecommerce website in the technology niche is the fact that the template is completely fee.
The boss cart futuristic ecommerce template was created for Boss Cart Premium but with minor modifications, it can be ported into other ecommerce shopping cart application such as Actinic, Zen Cart, Mangento and other online shopping cart software.

You can find detailed information on the futuristic shopping website template as the shopping cart template section of Boss Cart ecommerce website. Other features of the template apart from its swanking design follows:
- It uses CSS to maximise standards compliance
- It comes with PSD files so that you can make modifications easily.
- Easy to port to other ecommerce shopping cart websites
- Install on Boss Cart Premium without any modification
- Standards complaint

You are free to comment on this post right here at Temi or you can discuss it at UK webmaster forum. We would like to hear from you on ecommerce and other online trading related issues. You can submit your template, shopping cart and other webmaster related products or services for review at temi.co.uk.

Next week we bring you review of McAfee site security and PCI compliance verification services. Ensuring your ecommerce site is PCI compliance can help you keep the terms of your credit card merchant services.

Google rolled out a new algorithm change based on negative reviews

It all started with a NYTimes story related to how a business prospered from bad reviews. It seems the business owner was treating his customers bad for getting negative reviews and online buzz about his business. According to him, the buzz created not only ranked his business upper in the search engines but also brought a lot of new orders/clients. Negative reviews translates into backlinks that can definitely skyrocket a website in search engines.

Guys at Google, after reading about this experience gathered a team to take care of this. If first they « took care » only about the company we talked above, they saw that that company was not the only one taking advantage of negative reviews thus this being a widespread problem. And this is how an algorithmic solution was born, algo change that will mean lots of changes in SERPS. Translated, this means that negative reviews will become a minus factor for search engine rankings.

According to Google, Decor My Eyes (the business that created the buzz) received lots of links from authority news website thus the jump in rankings and the orders’ numbers increase. Another « to come » change comes right from Google’s Amit Singhal and it is related to expose user reviews (negative or positive) alongside the results for various service/product providers. Exact words were « though still on the table », meaning something new is cooking related to ratings and search engine results.

The new algorithm was already incorporated in the search rankings but this comes with a new question : if negative reviews will impact search engine rankings, wouldn’t be easier for the competition to hire a few guys that all day long post negative reviews on different websites, thus leading to massive drops in the results ? It is a question that will definitely find an answer in time, however this could just be a wrong move from Google made in its algorithm.

Two character short UK domain name registration opens (sunrise)

Two character short UK domain name registration opens
The processes of making previously reserved short .uk domain name extension which was voted on by Nominet members earlier this year has finally started. The so called sunrise period which is a phase where individuals or companies with trademark right on a particular word for example BT.uk are allowed the register the domain name. After the sunrise period, domain registration tends to go to what is known as land rush, the process where all and sunrise are allowed to register the remaining short character domain names.

Nominet announced at their website that the process will consist of two stage application process.
Stage 1
Trade mark rights holders have until midday (GMT) on 17 January 2011 to apply for a domain that matches their trade mark via a Nominet registrar.

Stage 2
Applicants will then need to have their IP rights checked by CMS Cameron McKenna, the validation agent we will be using for this process. Applicants will need evidence of using the trade mark in the UK prior to 1 January 2008. The deadline for applying to CMS Cameron McKenna to have IP rights validated is midday (GMT) on 31 January 2011.

The .UK domain name space is probably the most popular domain name extension after the .com domain extension. You can read the full information about the application process for short .uk domain name extension at Nominet’s website,

You can discuss this post and any domain name registration related issues at UK webmaster forum.

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