Thursday, 21 February 2008

Ecommerce and Shopping Cart Optimization

7 key points/tips to achieve the most successful website;
  • Design for success
  • Internal Site Search
  • Why should I trust you?
  • Make buying simple
  • Let your site be known
  • An image says a thousand words
  • Climbing the ranks

1 comment:

Tim Leighton-Boyce said...

I was a bit concerned when I read "an image says a thousand words" in the excerpt here.

The more sites I look at, the more I come back to the simple notion that our words often let us down.

We can recognise a product shot which looks 'wrong' and whip it off the site. But we leave basic product descriptions there without thinking twice.

I believe that we need to do more to "sell" our products and seduce people into wanting to buy them.

Good, persuasive, words will do this -- and bring loads of organic search brownie-points too.

But when I clicked your link through to the original article, I was glad to find that the second section began

"Rob Snell, "Pimp Your Products, Sell More Stuff"

Not my choice of words, but I couldn't have put it better.