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Side-by-side ecommerce SERP comparison showing a product result with rich snippets (star rating, price, in-stock badge, free shipping) versus a plain blue-link product result without structured data.

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Rich Snippets & Structured Data for eCommerce: A 2026 SEO Guide

Rich snippets and schema have been regarded as an advanced SEO technique that should be at the pinnacle of your SEO campaign. This powerful bit…

Journey — Email

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What Is A Customer Journey Map And How Is It Used In Marketing?

The origins of customer journey mapping can be traced back to 1981 when Jan Carlzon was appointed CEO of Scandinavian Airlines. As he was working…

Ecommerce product page optimization

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9 Best Practices for eCommerce Product Pages

This is the “money page” on your site – the page that does the selling and takes the customer from research and evaluation to purchase.…

The personalized ecommerce era

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The New Era of Personalized eCommerce

Customers today are no longer just price-sensitive. They look for stores that offer them more than the lowest prices and the best deals, but they…

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7 Tips for Perfecting eCommerce Product Photography

The eCommerce world has become a very wide, inundated, and competitive world with the prevalence of the internet and the ease of accessibility users have…

Shopping

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8 Best Practices for eCommerce Shopping Carts

One of the biggest misconceptions that eCommerce web designers have is that the shopping cart serves as confirmation that the customer wants to buy a…

Ecommerce category page optimization

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10 eCommerce Best Practices for Your Category Pages

This is the next part in our Best Practices series for eCommerce usability. We have covered topics ranging from the homepage to product pages ,…

Website navigation best practices

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The Future of Website Navigation: Best Practices in 2021

In an ever-expanding demand for online shopping, it’s essential that your brand keeps website experience top of mind. And after a year in a global…

Converting visitors to customers

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11 Ways To Improve Your Website Conversion Rate

It is no secret that in today’s fast-paced world having a website is crucial to your business’ survival. Today’s consumers want information when they want…

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How To Start an eCommerce Website Business

How To Start an eCommerce Website Overview With hundreds of millions of online shoppers , starting an eCommerce website and online business seems like a…

Chart Close Up Data — Web Development

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A Primer on Data Management Platforms

What Are Data Management Platforms (DMPs)? Data management platforms (DMPs) collect and house first- and third-party data related to your business. People often refer to…

Humans vs AI in testing

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VWO Humans VS AI Challenge

Partner of OuterBox & beloved testing tool, VWO (that’s Visual Website Optimizer) recently launched a friendly competition in promotion of their product’s latest feature.