3 Tips for a Better eCommerce Dropship Website
Posted by Amanda Brooke on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 11:17 AM
Your
ecommerce dropship website says a lot about you as soon as visitors arrive at your home page, so it needs to make a good first impression!
There are various ways to spruce up your website and make it appear welcoming and appealing to potential customers, as well as mire user friendly and functional.
Here are 3 handy tips for improving your website:
1. Be aware that your front page of your website is around 90% of what influences winning a customer. If you can take an unbiased look at your front page, check it out and see how welcoming and professional it looks to a visitor. Ask yourself if your front page clearly tells a visitor what you are all about, and summarizes what you have to offer in such a way that visitors arte prompted to proceed further into your site. If you can’t do this objectively, solicit a friend, relative or professional acquaintance for a critique.
2. Keep your content fresh and up-to-the-minute! If you surf the web for a while, you might be shocked at how many ecommerce websites still have a Christmas theme going on, which is so over. Don’t do this. Always make sure that your ecommerce dropshipping website is timely and revitalized with new content. Remember that in viewers aged 25-55 years old, you only have approximately 10-12 seconds to snag their attention. For viewers under the age of 25, it’s even less. You will have about 8 seconds to grab their attention. So, keep your website optimized with fresh, relevant content!
3. Make sure that your website is functioning with optimal performance. This means speed of page loading, being error free, not full of typos and ungrammatical errors, easy to navigate, easy to search, well organized, has great product descriptions, and more. You can get free analytical tools on the internet to help you analyze the overall performance of your website. Use them at least once a week or so. Also, be sure to SEO your website to the max with good keyword practice. This means not over-using or under-using your keywords.
Making a good first impression can make or break sales in your ecommerce dropship business!