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My Failed Attempt at SEO (And What I’ve Learned)

Kissmetrics

Did you know that I’ve failed at SEO before? This was when I knew SEO like the back of my hand. I’m talking about when I was good enough to get sites ranked on page 1… that’s when I really failed at SEO. But still, it was pretty fast even for 2010/2011. Like today, no one wanted to link to poker sites… even back in 2011.

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Thin & Duplicate Content: eCommerce SEO

Inflow Insights

For eCommerce SEO professionals, issues surrounding duplicate content , and also thin/low-quality content, can spell disaster in the search engine rankings. Inflow’s Cruft Finder SEO Tool. For a deep dive into this topic, please read Product Review Vendors—Solutions to Fit Your eCommerce SEO Needs. Additional Resources.

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Stop Targeting Keywords and Start Targeting Customers

Kissmetrics

That’s well below customer engagement metrics such as time on site and bounce rate. If you want to be rank high in SERPs in 2018, you’re going to need to start targeting your customers and not just keywords. So how do we target customer engagement instead of targeting keyword use? Don’t worry. Algorithms are becoming more human.

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The 6-Step Guide to Make Your Mobile Site Load Faster

Kissmetrics

Just a one-second delay can reduce customer satisfaction by 16 percent and one in four visitors will abandon a site if it takes more than four seconds to load. Responsive designs typically load faster than mobile-only sites, so you’re gaining a massive SEO advantage there. Don’t Use Custom Fonts. That’s about 400 milliseconds.

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11 Customer-Centric Ways to Grow Your Ecommerce Revenue

Kissmetrics

There are three general ways to grow revenue in any ecommerce business: Increase the total number of customers. Increase the average number of times each customer buys from you. Increase the average order value (AOV) from each customer. These are categorized in ways to grow: New Customers. Repeat Customers.

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The Role of WordPress Ecommerce in the Coming Content and Commerce Era

BigCommerce

This strategy is a hallmark of brands looking to: Build community and customer lifetime value through their owned website rather than through a marketplace like Amazon. Nurture customers through a longer buying cycle. Your SEO will need to be top notch. You’ll need a full funnel customer experience. Top of funnel.

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Automating Image Optimization: Akamai Image Manager Now Available for BigCommerce Merchants

BigCommerce

This is free for BigCommerce customers – and available at cost for online stores across the web. Improving Page Performance Without Compromising Customer Experience. As a result, the average website page size eclipsed 3MB in 2017, up from less than 1MB in 2011. What’s Akamai Image Manager? 78% of U.S. Source: SpeedCurve.com ).