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When Hitwise published its Hot Shops List of the Top 50 Online Retailers in the UK, I leaned back from my screen and thought what does it all mean?

Strip out travel, IT and services, and you see how online performance still doesn’t correlate with organisation size, market share and buying power.

Webcredible’s Mrudula Kodali has published some handy tips for using photography in e-commerce – an issue etailers are increasingly grappling with as competition increases and search engines display more multimedia results.

Mrudula says photos can help consumers get a better feel of products on offer, but have to "work hard" to overcome the web's limitations.

See a brief run-through of her suggestions after the jump:

US e-commerce sales rose by over a fifth in the second quarter of the year, according to new figures from the Commerce Department.

The period saw online retailers generating adjusted income of $33.6bn, an increase of 6.4% from Q1 and 20.8% from the same period in 2006.