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10 Inspiring Blogs from eCommerce Brands

If your eCommerce store doesn’t have a blog, then you’re missing out on search engine traffic, greater audience engagement, and sales.

A regular stream of well-written blog content can be excellent for your store’s SEO, with each blog post giving people another way to find you via search engines.

Readers of your blog might share your content on social media, giving your target audience another way to find you.

Publishing quality content on your blog also turns your store into a helpful resource that your target audience will keep coming back to in order to learn more, whether that’s health tips, recipes, or other educational or entertaining content.

Let’s look at some of the best examples of eCommerce store blogs.

Advanced Product Fields for WooCommerce Review – Add Custom Fields to Products

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Do you find that the default WooCommerce product fields lack options for listing your inventory in the way you want? If so, you might find the Advanced Product Fields for WooCommerce plugin from Studio Wombat extremely useful!

It’s a tool that lets you add extra options and fields to your products. This includes text boxes, dropdowns, radio buttons, color swatches, images, and more.

These fields and options give you a lot more flexibility when it comes to displaying and offering products to your customers.

This, in turn, enables you to create product add-ons, let users submit custom text, set custom pricing, offer various discounts, and accept file uploads, all from the product page.

When using the plugin with our Shoptimizer WooCommerce theme, the fields are integrated seamlessly with the design of your store, delivering a consistent user experience for your shoppers.

If that sounds interesting, read this Advanced Product Fields for WooCommerce review to determine if this is the right tool to help you configure your products and list them according to your business requirements.

Mastering WooCommerce by Patrick Rauland Book Review

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Mastering WooCommerce by Patrick Rauland is a print and digital book that’s just as useful for those new to WooCommerce and would like a step-by-step guide to building a store as it is for more experienced users who are seeking a detailed reference guide they can turn to when needed.

If you want to increase your knowledge of WooCommerce, whether you’re just starting out or you’re already familiar with this platform, then investing in Mastering WooCommerce would be an excellent purchase.

While there are many valuable WooCommerce guides online, you can’t beat a book when it comes to covering a topic in depth. Having a printed or digital book to hand that covers all the essentials, and more in one place can be a great alternative or accompaniment to the countless articles and other resources available online.

12 Inspiring “About Us” Examples From eCommerce Stores

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Nearly every store has an About Us page. However, they’re often overlooked, containing only the most basic information presented in an unexciting way.

If that applies to your store or you haven’t updated your About Us page in a while, this guide will inspire you to turn this important part of your store into an effective piece of content that can help grow your business.

Your About Us page can play a key role in differentiating yourself from the competition — something that’s vital for all eCommerce stores.

FlyingPress Review – An Easy Way to Improve Site Speed

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Slow site speed can be fatal for an eCommerce business. Poor performance can cause problems for regular websites, too.

The longer it takes for your site and its pages to load, the worse conversion rates, user satisfaction, and search engine visibility you can expect.

Therefore, it’s vital you do all you can to improve the performance and speed of your site.

Along with a fast-loading theme or store design and performance-focused web hosting, installing a WordPress performance plugin is one of the best ways to improve the speed of your site or store.

However, there are many WordPress caching and performance plugins to choose from. This means finding the best one for your site can be time-consuming. Also, if you get it wrong, you might even end up with worse performance.

When it comes to your options, FlyingPress is one plugin you could choose.

It’s a plugin designed to help improve site speed with as little effort as possible while still providing enough customization options for power users with exacting requirements.

In this FlyingPress review, we help you decide if it’s the right plugin for your site. We cover the main features of this plugin, explain what it’s like to use, and share the results from our tests of using it on a WooCommerce store.