In order to improve the site’s SEO even further, Bluelounge requested to improve their Shopify site’s PageSpeed score to above 90/100 on both Desktop and Mobile. These are my notes to achieve 95/100 PageSpeed score on an e-commerce site. The steps explained here may not be applicable to all Shopify powered sites, but hopefully you will be able to pick up a point or two.
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After setting up the most important element: a running e-commerce site, business owners are typically focused on the marketing to attract customers into the website and eventually make it generate some revenue. An understandable strategy, as the the whole idea of creating the website is to make profit from the transactions. But usually first-time customer acquisition cost is higher than the profit generated from the first purchase. To ultimately get them to come back and order more items from your online store which probably costs much less is by giving them a great shopping experience.
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In order to have a successful website, there are 3 components in general: online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and e-commerce strategy. The first problem to tackle is, most people may not be aware of the differences and consider them as the same. They might come to you and mention any of the terms and expect it covers everything.
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I have written my experience ordering using AmazonGlobal which was great. The only part that made Amazon missed was the delivery deadline. Those orders were placed using AmazonGlobal Expedited Shipping which said averaged 5-10 business days for delivery. However Amazon’s courier partner i-Parcel failed to get my orders in time, although they only missed for a few days.
In past two years, I have been exposed to Magento consistently through different projects and started to fond it. Having working through many e-commerce platforms before, Magento is certainly a much more complex software and I can honestly say it is not for every person/business.
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I have shared my experience ordering using AmazonGlobal and so far it has been positive. If I may add about one of the main difficulties at the time, it was a bit hard to know whether a product would be eligible or not from the catalog list. It was only until you go to the… Continue reading
I have to admit that I used to be pretty skeptical with the potential growth of e-commerce in Indonesia. Despite the wave of investments made by local and foreign companies to be top players in the country, I was not completely convinced the market would mature in a short time. My experience first time ordering from Lazada Indonesia (lazada.co.id) sort of confirms it. But not because of the market, but Lazada itself.
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What is eBay Global Shipping Program? It is eBay’s answer to AmazonGlobal, an added service to allow International customers to order from a US seller and have applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees calculated upfront.
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Let’s face it, you can build almost any kind of website using WordPress even though I disagree to say it is always the most ideal. However I cannot deny the fact that it truly is the most favored CMS/blogging platform in the past 5 years, supported by an almost infinite numbers of plugins and regular… Continue reading
There is no denying, Amazon is the global leader as retail e-commerce company. With operations based mainly in United States and independent marketplaces in Europe, they have established very strong ground to the biggest markets. How about Asia, which has been proven to be harder to penetrate? Also other countries that is currently unreachable directly…. Continue reading