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When and how to use HTML sitemaps for SEO and UX

Search Engine Land

Websites weren’t appropriately planned by information architects according to UX best practices. HTML vs. XML sitemaps – the visible vs. the invisible To make it short and simple, the main difference between HTML and XML sitemaps is that an HTML sitemap is usually visible to website visitors while an XML sitemap is not.

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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. The following tips for organizing your ecommerce site and promoting your products will help you get more traffic and sales. Start by creating your main categories. So, where do you start?

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Ecommerce UX Battle: Benchmarking 4 Beauty & Cosmetics Mobile Websites

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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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Why Sites in High-Growth Industries Have Terrible UX

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But terrible UX isn’t a shortcoming of the cryptocurrency industry—it’s common in every high-growth industry, including, perhaps, your own. But, in the interim, industries like cryptocurrency get away with atrocious UX. The mistakes detailed below are a cautionary tale about potentially pernicious UX blind spots. Registration.

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6 Customer Journey Mapping Examples: How UX Pros Do It

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Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. However, like other UX research techniques (including user personas ), there’s some vagueness and obscurity around how to actually create customer journey maps.

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How to survive and thrive in a Google helpful content world

Search Engine Land

I would urge any who have not already done so to review: The analysis that Glenn Gabe has put up. These findings are what I’m using to assess sites that come to me following the helpful content update and what I would recommend site owners also consider when doing a self-assessment to recover lost traffic. This note from Marie Haynes.

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Email outreach for marketers: Measuring and optimizing performance

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To measure it, follow this formula: For instance, 80 positive reactions out of 150 signify a 53% engagement rate. The main task is to handle the response in a way that will give you maximum data. Imagine you’re offering UI/UX optimization to a Director of Marketing. Create consistent follow-ups.