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Mobile parity: does your site offer a singular experience?

26 March 2021 | 7 Comments Edwin Toonen

You might have heard the term parity before in SEO, specifically mobile parity. It all comes down to one thing: you should see your site as a single thing. You shouldn’t have a ‘mobile site,’ as distinct from a ‘desktop site.’ You should have one site — which may use CSS to display elements differently …

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Mobile parity: does your site offer a singular experience?

Contact page examples: What makes a great contact page?

24 March 2021 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

In this post, we’ll go over a number of contact page examples, so you’ll be able to review your own contact page and improve it. For a lot of companies, that contact page is the main reason they have a website in the first place. For others, the contact page filters or manages all incoming …

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Contact page examples: What makes a great contact page?

Learn about the three Core Web Vitals: LCP, FID & CLS

15 March 2021 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

Some time ago, Google caused quite a stir by announcing a new ranking factor for 2021: page experience. User experience has always been an essential part of building the best site out there, but now, it will play an even bigger role in helping you build awesome sites for your customers. All this is powered …

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Learn about the three Core Web Vitals: LCP, FID & CLS

Easier online shopping with ecommerce filters for products

8 March 2021 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

Online shops rarely sell just a few products. If your shop has a few hundred or a thousand articles, it might help if you offer your customers a filtering option. You must do whatever you can to help your customer get to the desired product as soon as possible. Ecommerce filters can help you solve …

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Easier online shopping with ecommerce filters for products

How to optimize your homepage

21 January 2021 | 19 Comments Edwin Toonen

Does homepage SEO exist? We asked ourselves that in our post on homepage SEO. However, a lot of the people still feel that a homepage should be optimized for a keyword. Perhaps optimizing your homepage for search engines works for some of you, but ranking in Google should definitely not be the only purpose of your homepage! …

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How to optimize your homepage

Optimize product images for your online store

23 December 2020 | 6 Comments Thijs de Valk

Product images can make or break your online shop’s success. You can hire the best designer in the world to create a killer design, but when images are bad, sales will be bad. It’s the first thing a customer will look at. In this post, we’ll go over a number of things you need to consider when …

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How to turn your online customer into a brand ambassador

22 September 2020 | 4 Comments Michiel Heijmans

Right after a customer does an online purchase on your site, an important marketing opportunity arises. At that moment, someone chose to buy a product from your business, linking them to your brand. So make sure to seize that moment! In this article, we’ll go over a number of things you can do to turn these online …

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How to turn your online customer into a brand ambassador

Sliders suck and should be banned from your website

10 September 2020 Thijs de Valk

Five years ago, we wrote about why we really don’t like sliders. We still don’t like sliders. If your theme forces you to include a slider (also named carousels) on your homepage, please realize that it’s making you use a feature that has no value for SEO. A feature that is probably slowing down your site …

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Sliders suck and should be banned from your website