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Baymard suggests that the popups annoyed the user and some went as far as referring to any overlay dialogs as “spam”. By reflex, users closed the dialog box without even reading.

As an e-commerce site, you might say your most important page on your website is your product page. After all, without a product page, you can’t make sales. Right? I beg to differ.

If you want a quick win and instantly decrease abandon carts, offer free shipping.

A rich result with a warning issue is eligible to appear in Google Search as a rich result. Warning issues are either suggestions for missing or invalid optional values, or errors in non-critical fields.

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Consider the experience of folks on your site if you have a lot of media. Large amounts of media on your site can drastically slow things down.

In reality, it’s going to happen and it’s not ‘if’ but ‘when’ it does, you should be prepared to take action.

Christina is seeing the dual benefits of Rich Results: more traffic and better quality traffic that’s ready to convert

Whether you have an e-commerce store, you offer a service, you’re a non-profit,  or any other possible combination, these tips are the same for everyone.

If more people are seeing your search results and you are open to accepting phone calls, there’s a good chance winning Rich Results will increase your calls.

With Google enabling mobile-first indexing for stores, they also include a little note about the structured data

Organic traffic boosts are one of the more visible benefits from Rich Results and JSON-LD for SEO. A 15% boost is quite significant, especially if that’s higher quality traffic too.

Anytime you change anything on your store or a page there’s a risk it could impact Google’s ranking and Rich Results. The larger the change, the larger the potential impact.

Even if you do everything correctly you’re still looking at a minimum of 6 months of lower/no organic traffic while Google refreshes things.

I posted the Hurricane Sale and people from around the country responded and supported my business. Without those extra sales I’m not sure what we have done.

Let me be very clear. Accessibility is 'a thing' and absolutely should be considered for all websites.

They want the benefits of structured data but don’t know how to code it themselves. Rightfully so too, as there’s more important things for store owners to be working on than writing code.

Last last week and continuing through the weekend, Google had a major de-indexing bug where some pages and entire domains were removed from Google Search.

In case you haven’t heard, Shopify and Mailchimp are at an impasse and have decided to sever their relationship.

Did you know that you can customize the email notification that goes out to customers when they’ve placed an order?

It also saved time (which as any business owner knows = money) and the inevitable frustration that fixing the data manually would have entailed.

One person asked if there was a way to send automatic emails to anyone who lands on their Shopify site as a way to increase conversions.

"I decreased our advertising ads and Facebook ads by 70%. The savings from the ads and the increased sales has let me create two more partime job positions"

By adding a buy button to your current website in minutes, you can learn to utilize Shopify without investing a bunch of time creating a whole new website.