Every eCommerce business is a little different, but every one has to find solutions the same three problems. This presentation summarizes how to address each of those problems, so that you can grow your eCommerce business.
6. Focus on different strategies for the
different types of traffic.
• Organic Search
• Paid Search
• Social Media
• Link Referral
• DirectDirect
traffic
is
when
someone
goes
directly
to
your
site
by
typing
in
the
domain.
8. • Only use themes that create SEO-
optimized HTML.
• Build links to your site from other
authoritative sites.
• Research and target search keywords that
are relevant to your business.
9. Learn more about search engine
optimization at Moz.com.
Beginner’s Guide to SEO
10. Increase paid search traffic by
increasing your paid search budget
and optimizing your ads.
11. Learn more about paid search
advertising at Wordstream’s PPC
University.
PPC University
17. If more people are going directly to
your site it suggests that your
brand’s recognition is growing.
18. Problem #2:
How do I get more conversions
(sales) from the traffic I have?
19. Make your site less confusing...
• Use a logical URL structure
• Navigation should reflect URL structure
• Display rich, informative product attributes
• Every important page can be linked to
20. Use strong, clear calls to action
that tell your site visitor exactly
what you want them to do.
21. Consider running A/B tests to
measure different calls to action.
• Optimizely
• Convert.com
• Adobe Target
• Visual Website Optimizer
22. Improve your product data...
• Use consistent language
• Stay true to your brand
• Describe products in your customers’ terms
23. Try to meet the same expectations
you would for a shopper in your
brick & mortar store.
25. Managing data gets complex when you...
• Sell though multiple webstores
• Sell from brick & mortar stores
• Sell on marketplaces like Amazon
• Sell to business customers
26. Decide where to master the 5 key
types of data...
ShippingInventory
CustomerOrderItem