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Consumers are expected to spend more time shopping online this holiday season than they did last year, according to industry analysts. In fact, more than half of the 1,000 shoppers surveyed by MyPoints.com, a Web site for frequent shoppers, said they plan to do at least 54 per cent of their shopping online this year.

How do good e-retailers turn visitors into buyers? By giving them a good online experience, according to a survey released this week by ForeSee Results, a research company in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Beating up Internet retailers has become a media blood sport, but despite the hoopla over the industry's problems more of us are buying online and reporting good shopping experiences than ever before.