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Our team at Rixxo has been developing and marketing applications for over 10 years. We’ve learned a lot of things the hard way, but we’re always willing to share what we have learned with other developers. Keep checking back as our “how to” library grows!

How to stop spam bots on your website

How to stop spam bots messing up your analytics

When looking initially at a new clients Google Analytics data, we constantly find a variety of spam bots and irrelevant referral traffic to their sites. This is unhelpful when deciphering strategies for content and analysing what is working and what isn’t on the website – what we all want is the actual data. That way we can create clear proposals…

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B2B websites, how they are different and how to make them successful

B2B websites, how they are different and how to make them successful

When planning and designing a new B2B [Business to Business] website, it is essential to consider your target market and who your users will be.  Are you selling to businesses or a consumer? If you have determined your target customers are business organisations, then it is time to start planning to build a site that 100% services them – offering…

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HubSpot & Magento Integration – Using Forms & Emails to Boost Sales, Convert Leads & Improve Customer Experience

What is HubSpot & what do you use it for? HubSpot is a CRM, a customer relationship management platform, that companies use to manage their relationships with customers. The platform is customer-centric, meaning that all information about sales, marketing and communication will link to their relevant customers, storing all data for that customer in one place.  CRMs like HubSpot are…

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Ultimate Magento Checklist

The Ultimate Magento Launch Checklist for Adobe Commerce & Magento Open Source (500+ Checkpoints)

Launching an eCommerce site is a mammoth undertaking which can feel more than just a little bit daunting. Whether it’s a B2B eCommerce website built on Adobe Commerce, Shopify, BigCommerce or a WooCommerce store, there are a huge number of tasks that must be completed at key stages of the build process. No matter which platform you choose, the list…

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10 Tips for Magento site speed

How To Improve Your Magento Site Speed: 10 Tips

Before we look at how to improve your Magento site speed, it is vital to know why speed is so important. Understanding the value and benchmarks will help you understand how to budget and prioritise this type of work. A slow store means lost sales and unhappy customers We live in a world of increasing connectivity and choice. Website users…

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3 methods of Hubspot payment integration for B2B business

3 methods of Hubspot payment integration for B2B business

At Inbound in 2021, Hubspot announced the launch of Hubspot Payments, an end-to-end payment solution built to deliver smooth and enjoyable B2B eCommerce experiences. The Hubspot payment suite is built on and powered by Stripe. Not long afterwards Stripe became more involved offering another connection. Although not quite “fully integrated” the Stripe integration allows you to “bring your own payment”…

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How to apply discounts in Magento ecommerce

How to Create Promotional Discounts in Magento & Adobe Commerce

Whether online or on the high st, the use of promotional discounting to entice customers is a tried and tested method to boost sales. If you’re reading this you probably have a store built with Adobe Commerce or Magento 2 and you’re wondering how to correctly set up discounts for your store. Luckily there are multiple ways to achieve your…

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email marketing checklist

Email marketing checklist. 18 steps to email campaign success

Whether you’re about to launch your first email marketing campaign, or are looking to improve your processes, our email marketing checklist will help eliminate mistakes and remove the stress of forgetting something.  From broken or missing links, to display issues across devices, or spelling and grammar mistakes, email send fear is real. Enter the email marketing checklist. Your ticket to…

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How to Bulk Delete Sitemaps in Google Search Console

Backstory So first of all you might be wondering why you want to bulk delete sitemaps in Google Search Console or even batch bulk delete hundreds or thousands of sitemaps in Google Search Console. Well in our case the answer to this question was that somehow the Google Search Console account had been compromised with thousands of sitemaps that did…

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How to use catalogue price rules & cart price rules in Magento (Adobe Commerce)

How to use catalogue price rules & cart price rules in Magento (Adobe Commerce)

In Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento) there are several places where you can apply Rules for discounts and promotions. The rules engine that often appears in these discount generators can and does also appear in other plugins and extensions in the CMS. Wherever it appears it roughly works the same. The most common applications of this rules engine appear on Catalogue…

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The best way to do colour attributes in Magento 2 with my top 3 layered navigation recommendations

The best way to do colour attributes in Magento 2 with my top 3 layered navigation recommendations

What is layered navigation and faceted search? Layered navigation in Magento 2 allows your users to sort their search results based on attributes, like price range, colour or category. Often it’s titled ‘Shop by’ and found left of the search results. This is also sometimes called faceted search as you can filter items by their different facets. Sounds simple right?…

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Why is my Magento 1 site slow and getting slower?

Why is my Magento 1 site slow and getting slower?

Hi, sorry to hear your Magento 1 site is getting slower. It’s February 2020 and in just a couple of months Magento 1 is being sunsetted (June 2020). This doesn’t mean your site is going to stop working but it does mean there are lots of things going on in the eCommerce world, and the cyber criminal world that are going to…

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