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Favicons and your online brand: Make sure you stand out!

30 October 2024 Edwin Toonen

Favicons are those little icons you see in your browser tabs. When you have many open tabs in your browser, they help you recognize and find the page you were looking for. They are important for your branding because Google shows them in the mobile and desktop search results. So, let’s take a closer look …

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Favicons and your online brand: Make sure you stand out!

Understanding shopping cart abandonment

8 October 2024 Edwin Toonen

As webshop owners, we continuously refine our checkout process by monitoring shopping cart abandonment and running A/B tests. Why do some users fail to make purchases even after adding products to their carts? This article explores that question while considering diverse perspectives about abandoned shopping carts. What is shopping cart abandonment? Shopping cart abandonment occurs …

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Understanding shopping cart abandonment

The critical role of UX in ecommerce SEO

25 September 2024 Edwin Toonen

Online retailers work hard to make their stores stand out from the competition. One of the main points they should focus on is offering the best user experience. Combined with a proper SEO strategy, this can lead to great results. Search engines like Google prioritize user satisfaction, so integrating UX and ecommerce SEO helps improve …

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The critical role of UX in ecommerce SEO

How to get more value from site visitors with A/B testing

6 May 2024 Nino van Tour

Beyond getting visitors to your site, you have the crucial task of converting them into engaged customers—whether they sign up for a newsletter, complete a contact form, or make a purchase. A/B testing is an important tool to maximize the value of your organic (and paid) traffic and grow your business. But do it wrong, …

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How to get more value from site visitors with A/B testing

All about Core Web Vitals: INP (Interaction to Next Paint)

26 March 2024 Edwin Toonen

Google’s Core Web Vitals have emerged as critical metrics for SEO. These metrics help you optimize your websites for a superior user experience. A new player is making headlines among these vital metrics: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This one replaces the First Input Delay (FID). This post will explain what INP entails, its significance, …

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All about Core Web Vitals: INP (Interaction to Next Paint)

Is conversational commerce really the future?

29 February 2024 Cindy Paul

“Always be available”. That’s common advice for online businesses. After all, you don’t know who might be awake and browsing your site. Having a website makes this easy, and using automated bots for your customer service makes it even easier. That’s why conversational commerce has grown so popular. But is this a good development? Or …

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Is conversational commerce really the future?

The importance of accessibility in WordPress

30 January 2024 Camille Cunningham

WordPress and the community around it are very committed to making websites as accessible as possible. Websites should be accessible to every visitor and anyone should be able to use WordPress to create their website or application. To keep accessibility top of mind, there’s a dedicated Accessibility Team that provides expertise and further improves WordPress …

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The importance of accessibility in WordPress

Holistic SEO: Improve every aspect of your website

2 January 2024 Cindy Paul

SEO isn’t just a trick. Sure, tricks might get you ranked quickly, but they usually don’t work in the long run. In fact, they might even backfire. If you want to permanently rank well in Google, you need an extensive SEO strategy focused on every aspect of your website; the technical stuff, the user experience, …

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Holistic SEO: Improve every aspect of your website

Make a great website menu for your users and SEO

28 December 2023 Camille Cunningham

Website menus are one of those things you take for granted — until you encounter a really bad one. In the ideal scenario, users get an instant overview of what a site has to offer, and they can reach all the important stuff with just one or two clicks. In the worst case, users end …

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Make a great website menu for your users and SEO

Optimize your site with the accessibility checklist

29 November 2023 | 2 Comments Cindy Paul

Accessibility helps you open up your content to a wider audience, so more people are able to access your site. A great resource to help get you started is this list of accessibility checks made by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In this post, we’ll highlight a few important checks, so make sure you …

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Optimize your site with the accessibility checklist