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Pete Prestipino — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:15:00 GMT

An October 2012 survey of the top one million sites (in Alexa) puts into perspective just how popular Magento, the ecommerce platform within Ebay's X.Commerce platform), has become.

Magento captured 23% of the market according to research conducted by Tom Robert Shaw, a UK Magento developer at Meanbee. That equates to just over 8,000 sites of the top one million (Magento also lead in the top 100,000 sites). Magento has seen growth in every edition of the that particular survey since it began 2 years ago, experiencing a 20 percent growth rate since the last survey in February 2012.

Ecommerce platform ZenCart also seemed to fare pretty well, capturing 12 percent of the market. Both Magento and ZenCart both released new versions since the previous survey. Also noteworthy were that VirtueMart and OSCommerce experienced a dip in market share, while PrestaShop and OpenCart saw significant increases.

Custom Affiliate Ads for Zen Cart & OSCommerce

Michael Garrity — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:34:00 GMT

Is your e-commerce store the next Amazon? Well, you can certainly try to be with new Euraffiliates software that gives Zen Cart and OSCommerce merchants Amazon-like affiliate widgets that they can use to display their products on affiliate websites.

Euraffiliates, the company responsible for the Next-G Affiliate software, created these widgets to help businesses skip the part of the affiliate marketing process where they’re required to get started with Web developers, graphic designers, copy writers, email marketers and all of the other individuals involved in the creation of an affiliate marketing campaign. Now, Zen Cart and OSCommerce store owners with knowledge of FTP uploads and copy pasting can be selling through affiliates in just hours, as the widgets will automate the early steps.

Users need only upload one zipped source file and some additional setups files and complete the setup wizard. After they’re situated, they’ll be able to upload a logo for use by affiliate marketers, change the “look-and-feel” of their marketing content and even customize the affiliate page content with online forms (the system will provide default content), including a customizable affiliate terms page.

Moreover, merchants can easily select desired products or categories and preview them, and then customize them, save the settings and copy a single line to code to publish these updated product banners to their websites. This new feature lets users easily generate customized product ads similar to those used by Amazon. All changes will be rendered automatically on the affiliate websites, as well.

OSCommerce and Zen Cart merchants can easily integrate the widgets into their stores by simply copying the integration code from the system and pasting it into the specified files in their websites.

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Magento Rules Ecommerce Community

Custom Affiliate Ads for Zen Cart & OSCommerce