Online shoppers will typically check out several ecommerce sites before deciding where to buy a product. And when we say "check out," we don't mean extensively pore over and review. It's very likely that such shoppers will look no farther than an ecommerce homepage before making at least an initial decision. That means that the design [...]
Loyal customers are every small business's bread and butter, right? Not only are their repeat purchases an important portion of sales, but in the age of social media, they're your best marketing reps, as well. A customer who loves your brand will broadcast its virtues to the world, not only by direct word of mouth, but [...]
When you're on the ecommerce side of things, trying to improve your site's ranking in search engine results, it can be easy to forget the purpose search algorithms are created to serve: giving searchers useful, relevant, trustworthy results for their queries. You get caught up in SEO concerns like counting keyword occurrences, optimizing META tags and [...]
Product pages are obviously very important to your ecommerce site's well-being. You really ought to set aside some time (or better yet, hire us to set aside some of our time) to work on your product descriptions in order to improve your site's rankings and conversion rates. Therefore, today Marketplace Earth brings you 5 simple tips [...]
Over the next couple of months, we'll be writing a series of posts on social media and SEO focusing on small things you can do on specific social media platforms to increase their value to you as SEO tools. But first, I thought I'd give a brief explanation of how social media tools can be beneficial [...]
You've got a cool website with fantastic products. You've got the lowest prices around and awesome shipping options. Of course customers are going to naturally start flocking to your site. You don't need search engine optimization (SEO), right? Not so much. Let's say that your site is the best around. As soon as someone sees it, [...]
Do you run regular searches for your brand name? How many of the top results do you own? How many belong to competitors or contain negative press about your company? Dominating your brand's search engine results page is important for brand visibility, customer accessibility and public relations. If someone has heard of your company and runs [...]
We've talked about it before, but there is no question that price is a major factor in conversion. In fact, we believe that it is one of the 3 major pillars of conversion along with site trust and product selection. So, how often are you checking your prices with your competitors? As ecommerce owners, there are [...]