This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on ChatGPT ads, digital payments, visual search ads, authenticated deliveries, agentic commerce, CRM models, logistics, ...

Sig Ueland is a longtime contributor to Practical Ecommerce, having written weekly ecommerce resource lists since 2011 — addressing tools, products, and services to help merchants. He is also a ...

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on payments, shipping, affiliate marketing, agentic AI, ecommerce accelerators, customer ...

Unlike top search engines, ChatGPT does not maintain an index of global websites. It has relied instead on Bing’s index and search for training and sources. However, recent third-party tests suggest ...

Google Search Console is the most reliable way to evaluate a site’s organic search visibility. Unfortunately, the Performance reports are often confusing for busy executives who lack optimization ...

In December 2020, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced two new safety rules for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly called “drones.” The Remote ID rule outlines requirements for ...

Search and chat provider Perplexity AI has launched a new shopping assistant with the potential to disrupt ecommerce marketing, advertising, and search engine optimization. Perplexity’s “Buy with Pro” ...

An ecommerce merchant might sell the exact product a generative AI shopper wants and still not appear in the platform’s recommendations. The disconnect starts with how consumers use AI chat and ...

ChatGPT increasingly queries Google and other search engines for answers to prompts. Atlas, ChatGPT’s browser, similarly searches Google for research. Here’s how to identify that activity in Google ...

This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on international shipping, cross-border payments, AI-powered logistics, conversational ad campaigns, social commerce, ...

ChatGPT now recommends products directly in search results. The feature has no ads (so far). Hence any ecommerce business can presumably gain visibility for free. The recommendations follow from ...

ChatGPT is becoming a valuable traffic source. It may not appear in a Google Analytics 4 overview because the volume is small, but ChatGPT traffic is often the most engaging source, even more than ...