Several months ago we moved from a 5 post per week schedule to Monday, Wednesday, Friday here at Get Elastic, and consequently discontinued our Friday link-love-in called Bloggers Digest. A few readers expressed that they really liked the roundups, so I decided to bring it back!

Bloggers Digest will recap 10-or-so must-see posts for ecommerce enthusiasts from a variety of blog and news sources and will appear on the last posting day of each month. I also encourage you to add your own favorites in the comment section (so bookmark your faves in your feed readers). But I warn you, spam will be deleted!

OK, on with the links!

• Bryan Eisenberg has just launched a personal blog at BryanEisenberg.com. Check out his recent posts including How to Trim the Online Ad Budget, and follow Bryan on Twitter @thegrok

• This is a VERY important announcement regarding Google and search engine optimization: Google now lets you strip parameters from URLs. You now have a better weapon against duplicate content issues than the canonical URL tag.

• Graham Charlton from Econsultancy shares smart ways you can get your iPhone app featured by Apple. Follow Graham @gcharlton and Econsultancy @econsultancy

• Yes, yes, yes! Brian Clifton from Econsultancy reminds us that you can’t put too much stock in industry benchmarks, they can be misleading.

• Avinash Kaushik blows us away with many tools and tips for measuring the impact of your branding campaigns.

• Here’s one of the “coolest” (pun intended) ways to put a product in context: Canadian apparel retailer Mark’s Work Wearhouse lets you try on that ski jacket in the cold – right in store.

• Need proof that a slow website kills conversions

• Think a redesign will solve all your problems? Let Justin Palmer shake you out of the website redesign cycle, with a better solution.

• VKI Studios has a solid SEO evaluation of NFLShops. Have a read and make sure your online store is not guilty of any of these SEO sins.

• What else can you test to reduce shopping cart abandonment rate? Marketing Experiments has some great examples.

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