Bloggers Digest August 2011: Early Edition

Get Elastic is taking a very short summer holiday, and will return next Monday with the findings of our latest industry research. Until then, please enjoy an early edition of Blogger's Digest, and a selection of posts you may have missed on Get Elastic if you're a new reader (posts from over 12 months ago).

Blogger's Digest Picks - August 2011

• Website optimisation for SEO – a 12 part guide kicks off with a detailed description of how to 'use web analytics to benchmark website performance and drive insight through data.' Good stuff.

• Have you trained your email subscribers to ignore you? Mark Brownlow proposes you do the opposite of 'best practices' to help reactivate inactive subscribers.

• SEOmoz has some tips for link building for ecommerce.

• Love to merchandise with carousel sliders on your e-store? Beware of the 5 Big Usability Mistakes Designers Make on Carousels.

• 8 ways your landing page design is sabotaging your click through rate from Unbounce delivers what it promises.

• In Google news - have you seen the new expanded sitelinks in search results? Coverage by Econsultancy and Smart Insights discuss what this means for your brand.

• How about making checkboxes and radio buttons easier to click?

• Curious what the top Google mobile search terms are so far in 2011? The usual suspect Facebook takes the top spot, surprisingly "how to," "you" and "lyrics" follow behind. I guess the You is for Youtube, which places 6. Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are notably absent.

• Most folks struggle to find even one good way, Econsultancy shares 11 ways to measure the value of social media.

Get Elastic Rewinds from the Archive

• How to Reduce Cart Abandonment: 10 No Brainers

• 12 Ways To Enhance Your Online Store With Javascript Hover Effects

• 17 Comparison Matrix Design Tips

• The Dos and Do Nots of Mobile Applications

• 17 Ways To Minimize Friction in the Sales Process

• The 4 Pillars of Ecommerce Copywriting

• 10 Reasons Not to Copy Amazon

• 5 Reasons You Should Copy Amazon

• Top 10 Things Customers Expect from Your Online Store

• Developing a Site Testing Process: Site Optimization 101

• 5 Common A/B & Multivariate Testing Mistakes

• 7 Deadly Sins of Video SEO

• The 5 Dimensions of Social Proof On Ecommerce Sites

• 14 Tips for Cart Recovery and 10 Emails Deconstructed

• 11 Tips for Advanced Search Usability