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Ecommerce SEO & UX: 4 simple tips to boost traffic and sales

Search Engine Land

It’s often been said that SEO and UX are linked, and it’s never been truer than when we think about how you organize an ecommerce website. Start by creating your main categories. Your main navigation should present your main categories. In ecommerce, merchandising represents many more opportunities for product promotion.

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A Proven UX Research Process to Redesign Your Website

ConversionXL

You can throw away years of incremental gains in UX and site performance—unless you have a battle-tested process. I’m going to walk you step-by-step through our company’s UX research process for site redesigns—the role of each aspect, how long each should take, and what, generally, each entails. Website redesigns are a huge risk.

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Ecommerce UX Battle: Benchmarking 4 Beauty & Cosmetics Mobile Websites

ConversionXL

Our analyses measure overall user experience of each site as a composite of 5 separate UX dimensions. What is competitive UX benchmarking and why does it matter? Competitive UX benchmarking tests aspects of a website and compares them to competitors. 5 dimensions of UX benchmarking. 5 dimensions of UX benchmarking.

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

ConversionXL

Peep Laja and Brian Massey discuss optimizing your website’s main navigation. They represent the goals, motivations, characteristics, and behaviors of the most important groups of people who come to your site. Each card represents a (category) page on your website. Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical?

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How To Identify & Improve Crappy UX Issues

ConversionXL

Main Image – Should be appropriate for expectations. Main Navigation Menu – 6.4 Main Image – average time of 5.99 Just going by the website reviews we do, I’d say maybe the logo, main image & written copy, and everything else is kind of taken for granted. The Search Box - 6 seconds.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

To narrow the topic down, in this article, I’ll discuss the basic kinds of logics and recommendation techniques that work best in widgets on the main, product, cart, category, and 404 pages of eCommerce stores. Main Page Recommendations. The main page is the first thing than users coming from direct traffic see when they visit a site.

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8 Ways To Measure Satisfaction (and Improve UX)

ConversionXL

Here’s a quote from Peep further defining UX: Peep Laja: “First of all, UI (user interface) is not UX (user experience). Driving it is the UX. There are lots of reasons to measure the user experience, the main one being that you can pinpoint problem areas and work to improve them. James Harrington. Conclusion.

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