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How to Increase Ecommerce Traffic and Sales With the Right Content

October 19, 2017 By admin

Increasing traffic and visitors to an ecommerce site means increasing your chances of selling products. If you have no doubt about this correlation, your confusion will set in once you begin wondering how to bring users to your online stores.

Those in the online marketing industry aim at least half of their efforts at bringing traffic to ecommerce product catalogs.

Product quality, functionality, the aesthetics of the website, and good advertising are some of the requirements for bringing users to an online store.

But often people’s marketing strategies do not include the publication of valuable content, at least outside of product descriptions. Neglecting content is a very serious mistake for at least three reasons:

  • without quality content, the website will have a hard time ranking well in the search engines
  • visitors will bounce in and out of your ecommerce site quickly without focusing on researching more insights, which could lead them to purchasing
  • specific content related to the available products might be why users enter the site and end up buying something

Enriching an ecommerce site with good content is essential to increasing traffic that can turn into sales. But what are the most effective and stimulating content strategies for an online store?

 

Table of Contents

  • Relevant Keywords
  • Video
  • Images
  • Product Guides
  • Success Stories
  • Case Studies
  • Related Products
  • Questions and Answers
  • Emails
  • User Generated Content
  • Final Words
    • Wait! Before You Go, Read:

Relevant Keywords

The first rule is to add highly relevant keywords to the site’s content, which should be relevant to the company and its products.

For example, if you sell children clothing, then you will create content with keywords such as “children’s clothing”, “kids clothes,” or even “baby clothing trends 2017-2018.” Any content you create for your online store should always include the most relevant keywords.

 

Video

Adding videos to your product pages can really help to increase engagement with users. Once they have watched a video, they can post their comments, share stories, or ask questions.

You can use videos to compare your products with those of your competitors. You can also use videos for showcasing your products or even taking advantage of search engines. Google and YouTube will index an optimized video (meaning one with your keywords included).

SEO optimization will ensure you have extra visibility in front of shoppers looking to learn more about your products.

 

Images

Images are one of the most important aspects of a successful ecommerce endeavor. Like videos, properly optimized images can help you get more search engine visitors. Of course, high-quality product pictures can help potential customers decide to complete an online purchase.

But you can also use other graphics. For example, an infographic about a product comparison can help you market your online store.

 

Product Guides

People do not buy a product; they buy the experience surrounding it. So great content is just what deepens a product’s opportunities for use. It should educate people about the use of a product’s functional features and especially the situations in which people can use it.

For example, if you sell ties, it might be interesting to have an infographic with all the possible knots for a tie. You could explain how to create a papillon, present the most typical fabrics and designs, or illustrate the best shirt and jacket pairings.

 

Success Stories

What did customers do with your products? What were the benefits for the people who used them?

Don’t tell your shoppers how to use your products: show them. Telling short, incisive, and special stories is a great way to convey the idea that the product has value and that people appreciate it.

Whoever is reading the content immediately connects the product to a positive experience. This association increases the interest around the product, which people will no longer perceive as an object. Instead, they will see it as an opportunity to turn the purchase into a pleasant situation.

 

Case Studies

Once again, the use of the product is our main theme. But in this case, the subject is a special occasion or a particular problem people need to solve. Here, we’re talking about a specific context in which something needs to happen.

In essence, rather than starting directly from the product features, you create a case study that explains its benefits in a specific circumstance. The product then becomes the tool to solve the problems that the situation presents.

For example, if you are selling ski equipment, you can propose a case study that describes the use of a specific product for a difficult path in a ski resort. Then offer the skis that best suit this situation.

 

Related Products

People almost never use a product out of context. Usually, it is linked to other ones with similar features.

To increase the interest and value of your ecommerce items, you can talk about related products in contexts where they make the most sense.

 

Questions and Answers

Prepare content in which you summarize the main questions your customers are asking, as well as your answer. Doing so is a nice way to attract attention.

You will be successful with this strategy because you are writing about the issues potential buyers are hoping someone will clarify. Once again, you can use a lot of keywords that will help increase traffic and visitors in the specifically ecommerce area of ​​the site.

 

Emails

Collecting emails and sending messages to your current customers is an effective way to increase returning visitors and improve sales.

Keep in mind that these emails do not have to be merely promotional. You can also use them to offer valuable content, such as the latest blog posts, case studies, or success stories.

Email marketing really helps to keep your users engaged. So remember to ask your new customers to subscribe to your mailing list once they register with your site when they make their online purchase.

 

User Generated Content

Finally, here’s some great news: you don’t have to create all your content! There are lots of methods for getting users to help you with some of the hard work.

For example, you can ask for reviews and feedback. There are many ways to do so, depending on the platform you are using for your ecommerce store. You can also reward your customers once they have completed a certain number of reviews.

Keep in mind that this kind of content will not always positive, but it will always be helpful for your audience.

Over time, you might find benefits from user-generated content. User-generated content will help you to improve your ecommerce products by revealing your low-performing items and helping you to test new ones.

 

Final Words

An ecommerce site is not an online magazine. So it typically does not have much content other than product tabs.

However, your site does not need to have so little content on it. First off, you can create a blog that you link to your online store. In your blog, you can publish almost any kind of content. If you implement your content strategy well, you can even become a benchmark in your industry.

You can also decide to create specific sections on your site where you provide general technical information about your ecommerce items.

Now, it’s up to you.

Are you running an ecommerce website?

What’s your experience with it?

Please share your thoughts in the comments below. Thanks!

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Comments

  1. Freddy G. Cabrera says

    October 19, 2017 at 3:17 pm

    Hey Erik!

    They say by 2021 Ecommerce will be a trillion dollar industry! ….. yeah, trillion with a T!

    That is a lot of mula!

    Of course, I have been considering running an online store with Shopify. There is a lot of opportunities here. I would follow all of your tips here because that is the smart way to approach this. There is a lot of organic traffic that you can get to your store with just a blog. And with different niches you would have a lot of easy keywords to rank for!

    Thanks for sharing your tips!

    Cheers! 😀

  2. Shantanu Sinha says

    October 20, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    Hello Erik,

    This one is a savage 🙂

    When one is upto running an e-commerce site then, they want that lots and lots of traffic should be there on their web site
    and people not only visit but buy their products.

    These are some very good tips which can be very helpful in increasing our ecommerece web site traffic.

    Adding up relevant keywords is one of the most essential thing which can be done to rank our sites well in the SEO.
    Visuals speaks more than texts, thus adding up videos could be one of th best thing to increase our traffic.
    Demonstration and use sages of our products can be added along with the video so that customers do get a fair ideas about
    what are we offering to them.

    Thanks for sharing this awesome tips among us.

    Shantanu.

  3. Tom George says

    October 20, 2017 at 5:28 pm

    Hey Erik:

    It is no secret that blogging plays a big role for not just traffic, but also for branding etc.

    All these tips are important. I liked Product guides and case studies the best.

    Everyone will be curious to know about a case study and how the product was used successfully.

    Cheers 🙂

  4. Praveen Verma says

    October 21, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    Hello
    Erik,
    I have no word to say about this amazing post. Such a excellent post you have written. All these tips are very effective to increase traffic of ecommerce website. Here you have explained all these tips very nicely.

    I like all these point especially about Images, Product guide question and answer and Emails.

    Thanks for sharng. Waiting for your next blog post.

    Best wishes,
    Praveen verma

  5. Suraj says

    October 26, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    Hi Erik,

    i am actually not into the ecommerce but planning to start a dropshipping site, first my idea was to use paid traffic, specially fb ads but now i will try to rank them with the seo, the major problem i i face while doing seo for ecommerce site is that most of the keywords are dominated by the big brands and its very difficult to outrank them.

  6. Robin Khokhar says

    October 30, 2017 at 7:39 am

    Hi Erik,
    These days many new e-commerce websites are appearing up with new ideas. It’s really great to read a post like this. You have done some amazing work here by sharing these techniques.
    Thanks for sharing.
    have a good week ahead.

  7. Anita Johnson says

    October 30, 2017 at 8:13 am

    Hey,
    Awesome to hear that you are sharing your knowledge with visitors free of cost. Many are there in the market who are getting a lot of money but I will appreciate your efforts.
    Thank you 🙂

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