Hints and Tips on eCommerce, WooCommerce, and selling online

26 Quick Ways to Improve your Store (With Examples)

Managing an online store is like spinning plates. While the first iteration of your site might have been state of the art, if you don’t keep your eye on the ball, it doesn’t take long for the market to move on and for your eCommerce site to get left behind.

More to the point, if you have been left behind, bringing your online site, and all of its sales channels, up to standard, can seem like a mammoth task… but it doesn’t have to be.

So, in the spirit of keeping your site on its A-game, here are 26 eCommerce store updates that you and your support team can implement quickly, courtesy of the CommerceGurus team.

Be sure also to check out 17 Product Page Best Practices (with examples) for tips on improving your PDPs more specifically.

5 proven conversion rate tips to boost your eCommerce store sales

By Simon Tomkins1 Comment

When it comes to conversion research we’re big fans of the Baymard Institute Research website. It is a web usability research center which conducts detailed studies on nearly every feature of major eCommerce websites. These conversion rate tips, based on extensive research, could make a huge difference to the turnover of your store. It is academic in nature but practical in how it presents solutions to common UX problems.

When planning our Shoptimizer theme we quickly realized that nearly no WooCommerce theme on the market has actually studied these usability reports in order to make the default experience easier and more likely to convert their visitors into customers.

How to troubleshoot WordPress problems

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It’s easy to forget how amazing WordPress is. The huge ecosystem of themes and plugins allows anybody to get a top class website up and running in no time at all. But what happens when something goes wrong?

How much does an eCommerce website cost?

By Colm Troy1 Comment

Ah the age old question of cost! It can be quite the mystery as to what a eCommerce website will cost you. Today we take a look at what key factors will influence the cost of your eCommerce website.

Turbocharge your WooCommerce store load times

By Colm Troy14 Comments

Today we take a look at some of the most effective ways to speed up your WooCommerce powered store.

Let me get straight to the point. For most people, WordPress is slow. And WooCommerce is even slower. Why is that? A few reasons.

Why so serious? 10 examples of crafting a humorous identity

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It has become more and more of a challenge for companies to form a distinctive voice online amongst competitors and peers.

Frequently they are turning to humor, employing wit and surprise to engage with customers and shedding a stuffier image in favor of one which is more human.