It was a straightforward yet impactful change Google revealed to the world. A site’s friendliness to visitors arriving on mobile devices would affect its ranking. Google said on its Webmaster Central blog, “This change will affect mobile searches in all languages Read more
PayPal is continuing to make preparations for becoming an independent company once it breaks up with eBay. This week, it sent an email to its users informing them of changes to its policies. As the payments service explained in its Read more
eBay sent an email this week to buyers and sellers warning them of changes to its user agreement and privacy policy prompted in part by the breakup with PayPal. The changes go into effect on June 15 for current users. Read more
Online merchants who use UPS to ship packages paid lower fuel surcharges this year, but dim-weight pricing raised the cost of shipping. That’s the news gleaned from first-quarter financial results from UPS. Both UPS and FedEx instituted what’s called dimensional weight Read more
Etsy confirmed it is investigating reports of a problem with its card reader that allows sellers to process in-person credit card payments. Some sellers discovered last week that Etsy failed to show transactions they had processed through the readers. Etsy Read more
eBay is running a seller promotion in the UK, and as is typical on that country site, it’s designed to encourage private (casual) sellers to list items. The current promotion is by invitation only, and sellers must activate the promotion Read more
Etsy sellers began experiencing problems with Intagram, Facebook, and Wanelo on Thursday, highlighting the impact of glitches on sellers’ businesses as well as the love-hate relationship between marketplaces and social networking sites. Sellers who were blocked from the sites discussed Read more
Adding insult to injury, eBay increased fees for media sellers a day before a fee hike was supposed to go into effect. As part of the Spring Seller Update, eBay raised fees for media sellers from 5 cents to 30 Read more
An eBay shareholder who is also a hobby seller spoke out against its feedback system at the company’s annual meeting on Friday. In response, the president of eBay Marketplaces Devin Wenig said the company could do better and revealed it Read more
eBay has some major changes queued up that will impact sellers. On Friday, a top executive revealed to shareholders that eBay would be rolling out a new feedback system. And the same day, it sent an email to sellers informing Read more
