Questions tagged [ecommerce]
eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. This is a generic tag for all ecommerce systems. Frameworks that facilitate development of such systems like magento, nopcommerce have their own tags as well.
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Solution for real time image resizing
I've recently taken over an ecommerce website (example.com) and I'm looking to make some improvements to how media files are delivered. Currently when an image is uploaded for a product, the process ...
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Transactional verb in URL: do or don't?
Imagine, you have around 10 years old online print shop and you make it ready for relaunch. Its URL conception is logical, like:
Category: /shop/category.html
Product: /shop/category/product.html
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Calculating UK VAT when discount is applied
Most e-commerce websites display Gross total minus a discount but how does this affect VAT? Does the discount need to be taken from the Net Total? Unfortunately it has been difficult to find a ...
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Best seo pratice for category pages
Let's say you have an e-commerce store that has a category page of "Easter Offers" with an URL of /easter-offers which contains special discounted products which only easter for Easter.
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Why are there data discrepancies in my Google Analytics Ecommerce report when I compare year-on-year?
I have found some quite large discrepancies in my Conversions --> Ecommerce --> Product Performance report. The data for the same time period is changing when I use the 'compare to' tool.
The ...
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Optimised URL structure for e-commerce product pages
I am reviewing the URL structure of our marketplace, especially for the product pages (we have around 10,000 product pages).
Current format (includes ID for both artist and artwork name): https://www....
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How much does non-unique content (e.g. product specifications) affect SEO in the context of e-commerce?
Say we have a fairly successful (locally, on its product niche) online store with original content (images, descriptions, specifications). Now, we are given the possibility of working with an ...
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Which has better SEO for a large amount of similar products? Shorter or longer product descriptions
I am building a e-commerce site with a large amount (100s) of similar products. Product descriptions will be batch generated and will therefore be very similar, with only slight modifications in the ...
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What are the factors that lead to a listing in Google's shopping graph ranking?
I work for an online retailer that sells thousands of products from hundreds of brands. We've been advertising with AdWords (Google Ads) and Shopping for the better part of a decade with great results....
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Paypal account for a second shop so that the payment always appears in the name of the store the client is shopping in
I have one online store, let's say, AAA store with a PayPal gateway. Now i want to open another store, BBB store, with the same account (if possible, but it's not my main concern). Of course, for the ...
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Considerations for choosing the correct H1 tag for an e-commerce website
I am working on an online marketplace which has different categories like Jobs, Cars, Real Estate, etc.
This question is about choosing the best title (h1 tag) for the search results page. Most of the ...
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Use of single-page sites to point to products?
I am contemplating creating a couple single page sites to point to a particular woocommerce item. Advantages are:
Can gear the content of the page to that single item for SEO and readability
Can ...
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Root Domain 301 Redirect Except Checkout Page - 2 Sites Merged
I have a client who is merging his two ecommerce websites into one. The first ecommerce site is about knowledge of the products and second ecommerce website is to buy the product. It is interlinked ...
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Schema markup for product categories and subcategories - how to?
I've been wondering about which Schema should I use for an e-commerce site of one of my clients' website. Can't show proper code and sensitive information, but I'll try to explain what I've been ...
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Having schema.org inside noindex on one page?
I have an e-commerce website that reuses a snippet to render products on the category, search and cart pages (for the upsell area, and not the actual cart contents). The snippet uses the schema.org ...
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SEO / Usability impact of redirecting product category pages to different category pages
I am looking for any advice with regards to the SEO / Usability impact of the following.
On the ecommerce site, there are category pages that can be navigated to through various methods. Essentially ...
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Change the canonical URL within a product variations group when one goes out of stock?
Ecommerce shop has different pages for different product sizes:
/shirt-size-s/
/shirt-size-m/
/shirt-size-xl/
They all point to /shirt-size-s/ as canonical and only this page goes to sitemap.xml
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Filter E-Commerce transactions by event
I have an event that fires whenever a user picks a specific payment method. It has an event category of 'Payment Methods' and a Label of 'Finance'.
I am trying to exclude any of these transactions ...
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Redirecting home page to a subdomain, but keeping root domain for blog and ecommerce
This is a fairly unique situation, hence my question here.
My client has an ecommerce business that includes both retail and wholesale customers. We recently changed her retail side over to Shopify ...
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Can I use images from the manufacturer's website or other retailers for my eCommerce site?
I run a retail home appliances and cookware store, I want to create an online platform/eCommerce store to expand my business.
So can I use images from the manufacturer's website or from other ...
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Will changing IP address cause any integration or security problems?
We have an ecommerce website that uses PayPal and SagePay to process payments. Our host moved our site to a new server recently, resulting a change of IP address. This caused SagePay to temporarily ...
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How to add additional e-Commerce product SEO metadata when the web page content is partially dynamic?
I have some product pages on my e-Commerce website that have variants on them. Each variant has three things that are relevant to this discussion:
A SKU that is unique to our business
A manufacturer ...
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What to do to recover after deploying a new shopping cart / site and Google smacks you?
I recently deployed a reworked online store that was previously built with a system that suddenly went out of business. It was a rush and I ended up with new URLs for all products with even some ...
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What to do when a product page outranks the entire category
I have only recently begun to deeply optimize my product categories for SEO and making great headway. However there is a single product which, being very popular and amassing heavy backlinks and ...
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Google Analytics Ecommerce doesn't track Social media referrals
I have GA set up with external payment gateway. The cross-domain linker properly tracks both website and the payment gateway. Ecommerce tracks all referrals correctly (direct, organic, newsletters etc....
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How can I create enough content on an e-commerce site to qualify for Google AdSense?
I have an e-commerce site that is basically a catalogue of products. The only pages that have a lot of text are the privacy policy and terms and condition; the rest have images of products with their ...
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Can alt text be the same for multiple product images?
On our product pages, we have a main image of the product as well as several "zoomed in" images that highlight different parts of the product.
I am assuming that using the exact same alt text for the ...
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SEO friendly multilanguage approach with Webshop host
I'm setting up a multilanguage regional based webshop via Wix. SEO is important. Wix' "solution" to SEO multilanguage support is over URL parameters (?lang=en) and Google / Moz documentation says that'...
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Implementing Google Enhanced e-commerce Tracking with Google Tag Manager
Implementation of Google e-commerce in my code
I already have implemented the dataLayer variables and events in my code thanks to Google Tag Manager e-commerce implementation guide.
Thus, I do have ...
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How to add Schema.org structured data on product pricing page?
We have two pages on our website:
Product Page
https://www.zigwheels.com/newbikes/Royal-Enfield/Classic-350
Product Price Page
https://www.zigwheels.com/newbikes/Royal-Enfield/Classic-350/on-road-...
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Hierarchical vs Flat sitemap
I want to create a sitemap for my e-commerce website.
On the home page, there is a multi-level menu like this:
User can click on any of the following links from the Home Page:
Fashion: enter ...
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Google XML Feed, Schema and product availability
Regarding product availability, there's that little something I don't quite understand.
We have an online store with a few thousand products. Some of those products we don't have "in stock" for ...
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Which method provides a better user experience? [closed]
We have a CMS e-commerce website and sell pet foods. But unlike any e-commerce site, our customers do not buy the products for themselves. Our customers buy products to be sent to the animal rights ...
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"ItemAvailability" value for factory direct (non stocking distribution) items?
Anyone know the best way to communicate ItemAvailability in cases where the item cannot be stocked, but the item is available direct from the manufacturer/factory?
In other words, sometime a ...
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Sitemap confusion on Google Console: One website accessible by two URLs
I am a novice when it comes to websites, the language and technical side. Excuse if this sounds elementary.
If you have one website accessible by two URLs, do I need to add a sitemap for each one? ...
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Use forward slashes (/) or dashes (-) for URL design in 2019? (for categories in e-commerce)
What is a better URL design for an e-commerce website?
Case a:
http://example.com/shoes-women
http://example.com/shoes-women-red
http://example.com/high-heels-red
http://example.com/high-heels-red-...
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Is setting deep filtered categories to noindex a good practise?
The situation now: The project is not launched, but we have lot of categories and a big filter system in the end (color, brand, dimension, size, model, material,..).
Most of categories will have a ...
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What are the SEO benefits of a product specification/detail page vs a product overview page?
Is or should there be a difference between these two pages or should they be combined to form one page? I'm just curious because I haven't seen a product page on an ecommerce site go into heavy detail ...
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E-commerce tracking in wordpress using woo commerce
I work on a small business and they asked me to "set up e-commerce tracking on Google Analytics".
First things first, some information on the webstie:
It's on Wordpress
I have already successfully ...
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Discrepancies In Analytics Ecommerce Data
While I think most of us are familiar with/have encountered discrepancies between GA and Google Ads or other platforms, this one has me rather stumped.
A new client's reporting has always seemed a ...
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Can a site with Google ads also link to a commercial site?
Can a blog with original content and Google ads also link to a commercial site which sells stuff?
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Should I provide structured data for the related products on a single product page?
In a single product page, should I provide Schema.org structured data for the related products, too?
As an example, this is a page of my ecommerce. As you can see, there are 5 Product items in the ...
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Use of word "buy" as focus keyword
I am building an e-commerce Website using WooCommerce and Yoast SEO.
I am looking at the competition and I noticed that in my industry, if you type "buy adidas stan smith" on Google, results that ...
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Does moving eCommerce platforms have the potential to tank SEO initially even if we expect better SEO in the long term?
We are currently re-platforming from an old e-seller pro eCommerce website to Magento. our domain has been registered for over 15 years and Google has indexed the existing website, we even show on ...
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Pricing on product page only shown with campaign code, but can I omit it from the canonical URL?
I have a product page in the following format:
example.com/products/brand?campaignCode=<a campaignCode>
The /brand page shows generic information about the brand (name, description, image, etc....
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Will the google crawler miss the footer content if we implement unlimited lazy loading of our Products in our Catalog Page on our Ecommerce Website?
Our SEO expert has suggested we not do lazy load and do pagination as they said google crawler will not be able to crawl footer content if we implement unlimited lazy loading of our Products in our ...
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How long to recover Google traffic after period of out of stock in webstore?
I have a webstore and recently went on holiday so just placed all of the products out of stock and left the website open. In this time my traffic, which is almost entirely from google, dropped from 5k ...
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How does ecommerce tracking work for multiple currencies
I have a client based in the UK which sells from one website to multiple countries. I am setting up standard ecommerce tracking through GTM and wondering, if someone pays in USD, will GA recognise ...
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Affiliate networks: what work do they involve on my store?
I run a fairly successful online store. I would like to join an affiliate network to drive more traffic to my site, and I would like to know what sort of technical effort this involves.
Let's say ...
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Does the currency in a webshop affect SEO?
Does a page get ranked higher in google, bing, ... if a webshop uses the user's local currency?
I am wondering because we are discussing to add more currencies to our webshop. Our thoughts are that ...
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