We're always working hard at improving Shopify to make it the best ecommerce solution possible. We work on feature releases, server upgrades and other technical details so that you can focus on running your online store.

Shopify already includes unlimited bandwidth on all plans. Today we're happy to announce that we've also increased file storage amounts by a factor of 10X.  Both new and existing customers on the Basic plan now get 1GB (vs 100MB), Professional 5GB (vs 500MB), and Business 10 GB (vs 1GB) of file storage.  The storage limit increase means you can store more product pictures, documents, videos, and other files you use in your online store.   Enjoy the free upgrade!

Search engine optimization is the science - some say art - of convincing Google to show your web page or online store at the top of its results.  If you can master SEO, your store will get lots of traffic and you’ll be flooded with sales.  Best of all, SEO costs you nothing and is automatically built into Shopify.

Today we’re proud to announce several features that will make it easier to improve the SEO of your shop without modifying your store’s template files. With a few clicks, you can now change page title tags, the homepage’s meta description and your image alt tags.

It was another amazing year for Shopify and our store owners! We've seen a 61% growth in number of active online stores running on our platform, and their sales have more than doubled! We have taken the most interesting ecommerce and company data and put it into an infograph - thanks for a great year everyone, and here's to 2012 being even better! 

Across the web, large and small sites are joining together to voice their objections to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Wikipedia and Reddit are going dark while many others are posting messages of opposition. 

At Shopify we strongly believe that SOPA and PIPA will negatively impact innovation across the Internet. That is why we have posted a message linking to this post in the admin dashboard of all our Shopify stores. Over 15,000 store owners use Shopify to run their business and these bills will impact all of them, whether inside or outside the U.S.

Wouldn’t it be nice to put a Buy Now button for your products anywhere on the web?

It’d be even more awesome if you could embed product previews or entire collections in forums, your Tumblr and Wordpress blogs, or wherever else you’d like it to appear. Now you can.

Introducing Shopify Widgets: embed your products anywhere. Like these great looking Shopify shirts :)

Find out how to use these for your shop after the jump.

Need a little help setting up or running your online store? We've got you covered!

Today we're excited to announce the launch of Shopify Experts! Think of Shopify Experts as an online directory of experienced Shopify pro's that can help you with anything and everything you need for your online store. 

Each and every expert that's listed knows Shopify inside and out. We've categorized the pro's into five different categories: