Useful articles about Miva Merchant, Miva Merchant SEO, Miva Scripting, general eCommerce best practices, Miva Merchant module information, and more. We've also posted some Miva Script tutorials, guides, and downloads. This blog is run by Scot's Blogger, a Wordpress style Miva Merchant module.

Meet the New Google. (Same as the Old Google.)

Why Google's AI search isn't the revolution everyone's panicking about — and what Miva store owners should actually focus on.

Google's AI search looks new, but the fundamentals haven't changed. Here's what Miva Merchant store owners need to know — and more importantly, what they don't need to panic about.

Scot Ranney, May 21, 2026

Miva Merchant Shadows Modals Made Simple

Untangle the mysteries of making popup modals in the Miva Merchant Shadows CSS framework.

There are times you want the customer to click on something and see a popup modal with information in it. Modals in Shadows are easy to make, but can be confusing at first.

Scot Ranney, February 28, 2026

Miva Merchant Shadows/Elements CSS Cheat Sheet

It takes a while to get used to Elements CSS, this can help.

A cheat sheet for Miva Merchant Elements CSS with all CSS elements on one page and in a mostly orderly fashion.

Scot Ranney, February 28, 2026

New Module: Index Now

Index Now automatically submits store URLs to the indexing service that Bing uses.

Store owners know that the faster new products are indexed by search engines the better. This module submits your URLs to IndexNow.org which means that search engines crawl your links significantly faster than normal.

Scot Ranney, February 27, 2026

Mivascript 101: The miva_splitstring(..) Function With Examples

miva_splitstring(..) is a relatively new Mivascript function and one of the most useful.

Use miva_splitstring(..) to quickly take any delineated list and turn it into a Mivascript array. What used to take two or three lines of code now takes one line of code.

Scot Ranney, February 13, 2025

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